Pittsfield, New Hampshire, 1884 – 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 Pittsfield, New Hampshire, 1884, 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: Pittsfield, Merrimackcounty, N.H. 1884
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Pittsfield, New Hampshire, 1884
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Pittsfield, New Hampshire, in 1884 was a small mill and farm town in Merrimack County, where the Suncook River powered factories and the surrounding hill farms supplied them with labor and produce. Rail service by then tied the town to the wider state, letting manufactured goods move out and shoppers and travelers come in more easily than in earlier decades. Shoe and textile work drew many residents into the village centers, while outlying families kept dairy herds, orchards, and woodlots going. Like most towns of its size in that period, Pittsfield organized its civic life around the town meeting, the churches, the schoolhouses, and the lodges and fraternal societies that met in the business blocks. A map drawn that year captured the layout of those streets, mills, and houses as residents of the time knew them.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Creator | norris, george e., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, drawn in 1884. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,760 × 5,472 px · prints to 26 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Pittsfield, Merrimackcounty, N.H. 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489660 |
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