Derby, Connecticut, 1920 – 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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Step back in time with Derby, Connecticut, 1920, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: City of Derby, Connecticut
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Derby, Connecticut, 1920
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Derby, Connecticut, in 1920 was a river town of mills and shops at the meeting of the Naugatuck and Housatonic rivers. The brass and metal trades that had driven the lower Naugatuck Valley for decades were still employing many of the town's workers, and the 1920 census recorded a population that included large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, many of whom had come to work the valley's factories. The year also marked the start of national Prohibition, which took effect in January and reached local saloons and hotel bars along the river streets. A map drawn that year therefore shows a community still organized around its workplaces, with residential streets packed close to the rail lines and factory yards that set the pace of daily life.
| Created / published | 1920 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Derby, Connecticut, drawn in 1920. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,464 × 4,992 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | City of Derby, Connecticut |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488127 |
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