Newton, Massachusetts, 1897 – 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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Newton, Massachusetts, 1897 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Wards 1 and 7, Newton, Massachusetts 1897
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Newton, Massachusetts, 1897
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Newton, Massachusetts, in 1897 was a fast-growing city of commuters, streetcar lines, and large family houses on the western edge of Boston. Newton had been a city since 1873, and through the 1890s its population climbed as electric street railways made it easier to live in the suburbs and work in town. That spring the first Boston Marathon ran from Ashland through the western towns and into Newton, where the course climbed the hills that later became known as Heartbreak Hill. Residents would have recognized this map as a record of their own neighborhoods, from the schools and churches of the outlying villages to the house lots being laid out along new avenues.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1897. 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 | 8,032 × 5,440 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wards 1 and 7, Newton, Massachusetts 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488936 |
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