Barre, Massachusetts, 1890 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Barre, Massachusetts, 1890 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of village of Barre, Mass
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Barre, Massachusetts, 1890
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In 1890, Barre, Massachusetts, was a small farming town in the hills of Worcester County, its life organized around its town common, meetinghouses, schools, and the farms and small mills along the local streams. Its neighbor Barre, Vermont, would become known for granite, but the Massachusetts town never built a comparable quarry industry, so its economy rested mostly on agriculture, dairying, and local trades. Residents of that day would have known the town for its close-knit village centers, its town meetings, and the steady rhythm of seasonal farm work. The surrounding countryside was changing slowly as railroads and newer roads made markets in larger cities more reachable, though the town remained largely rural. This view captures a place whose streets, houses, and churches reflected a settled New England community at the close of the nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | spooner, w. r. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Barre, Massachusetts, drawn in 1890. 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,243 × 3,098 px · prints to 24 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of village of Barre, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488879 |
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