Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1915 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1915 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Fitchburg, Massachusetts 1915
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Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1915
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Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in 1915 was a city of mills, machine shops and rail yards in the north central part of the state. The Simonds Saw and Steel Company made saws and steel sold well beyond New England, and the Iver Johnson works produced bicycles and revolvers under its own name. Families from French Canada and Ireland filled the streets near the factories, and their children attended public schools, where the State Normal School, opened in 1894, trained teachers for the Commonwealth. Residents knew the city by its industry, and this map records its streets, mill buildings and church steeples as they stood before the United States entered the war in 1917.
| Created / published | 1915 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, drawn in 1915. 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 | 11,120 × 7,296 px · prints to 37 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Fitchburg, Massachusetts 1915 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488903 |
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