Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1886 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Edgartown, Duke's County, Martha's Vineyard Id., Mass
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Edgartown, Massachusetts, 1886
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Edgartown, on the south shore of Martha's Vineyard, was in 1886 a town still living off the memory of its whaling years. Its harbor had sent out whaleships for most of the century, but the trade had shrunk sharply after the Civil War as petroleum replaced whale oil for lamps, and the captains' houses along the streets were now more often home to retired mariners, merchants, and families who summered on the island. Across the water, the steamer traffic to the mainland and the growing resort crowds at Cottage City, now Oak Bluffs, were pulling visitors and money toward the island's other end. Residents of Edgartown would have known their town for its white clapboard houses, its old whaling church on Main Street, and its county seat role on the island.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | geo. h. walker & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Edgartown, 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 | 6,672 × 4,184 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Edgartown, Duke's County, Martha's Vineyard Id., Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488900 |
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