Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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 Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 1886. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: The Farms. 1886
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Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, 1886
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Beverly Farms, a village on the Massachusetts North Shore within the town of Beverly, was in 1886 a place of two overlapping lives. Beverly's older economy rested on shoemaking, fishing, and the harbor, and the town's factories and wharves sat a short distance from the village. Beverly Farms itself had become a retreat for Boston families, who by then had built large summer houses along the shore and reached them by the railroad that ran up the coast toward Gloucester. The village's residents at the time would have known it as a quiet seaside summer colony, with its daily rhythm set by the trains, the tides, and the seasonal arrival of wealthy visitors.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | walker, o. w. (oscar w.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, drawn in 1886. 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 | 9,648 × 5,568 px · prints to 32 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The Farms. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488882 |
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