Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, 1889 – 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 Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, 1889 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: Wolfeborough, N.H., Lake Winnipesaukee
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Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, 1889
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Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, in 1889 was a lake town on the northeast shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, where farming and small local trades had long been joined by the summer trade. Visitors arrived by rail and by steamboat, and hotels and boarding houses near the water filled each season with vacationers from Boston and other eastern cities. Year-round residents depended on that seasonal business, along with local farms and small shops, and the town's civic life centered on its streets, churches, and public buildings. This drawing records every structure along those streets at a time when the lakeside resort trade was reshaping the village, so it shows the town as its residents and summer guests would have known it.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, drawn in 1889. 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 | 8,432 × 5,504 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wolfeborough, N.H., Lake Winnipesaukee |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489671 |
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