Bangor, Maine, 1875 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Bangor, Maine, 1875. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the City of Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, 1875
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Bangor, Maine, 1875
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Bangor, Maine, in 1875 was a lumber city on the Penobscot River, where sawmills along the waterfront cut logs floated down from the upriver forests and shipped the boards to markets along the coast and abroad. The city had been incorporated in 1834 and had grown rapidly on that trade, and by the 1870s its mills, wharves, and lumber yards made it one of the busiest river ports in the state. The railroad had reached the city in the late 1850s, linking the waterfront to the interior and to Portland, so timber and goods moved by both river and rail. Residents of the time would have known Bangor first as a center of the lumber business, a reputation that shaped its streets, its churches, and the substantial houses built by mill owners and merchants.
| Created / published | 1875 |
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| Creator | koch, augustus, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bangor, Maine, drawn in 1875. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,288 × 7,613 px · prints to 31 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the City of Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, 1875 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489136 |
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