North Adams, Massachusetts, 1881 – Antique Map Print
(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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This antique map of North Adams, Massachusetts, 1881 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: North Adams, Mass
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North Adams, Massachusetts, 1881
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North Adams, in the northwestern corner of Massachusetts, was in 1881 a mill town built along the Hoosac River at the foot of Hoosac Mountain. Its fortunes rested on textile and manufacturing works, and the arrival of the Fitchburg Railroad through the Hoosac Tunnel, completed in 1875, had made the place a busy rail junction and drawn new workers from across New England and Quebec. The town was a city in name only after its incorporation in 1895, so in 1881 it still had a village-scale civic life of churches, schools, and a growing population of mill families. Residents would have known the valley for its industry and its tunnel, the long bore that had consumed decades of effort and money before opening.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | h.h. rowley & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of North Adams, Massachusetts, drawn in 1881. 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 | 8,656 × 6,512 px · prints to 29 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | North Adams, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488938 |
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