Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 1877 – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 1877. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Windsor Locks, Conn., 1877
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Windsor Locks, Connecticut, 1877
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Windsor Locks, Connecticut, in 1877 was a small river town on the east bank of the Connecticut River, a few miles north of Hartford. Its name came from the canal that carried boats around the rapids at Enfield, a waterway opened in the late 1820s that gave the village its commercial start. By the 1870s the Connecticut River valley was known for its tobacco fields, and farm labor, mills, and river trade shaped daily life there. Rail service along the river had also linked the village to Hartford and Springfield, and residents of the town, set off as a separate municipality in 1854, would have recognized the map's streets, mill buildings, and church spires as the core of their community.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | j. knauber & co, o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, drawn in 1877. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,304 × 5,872 px · prints to 28 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Windsor Locks, Conn., 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488167 |
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