Livermore Falls, Maine, 1889 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Livermore Falls, Maine, 1889. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Livermore Falls, Maine
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Livermore Falls, Maine, 1889
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Livermore Falls, Maine, in 1889 was a river village built around the falls of the Androscoggin, where the drop in the current supplied power to the mills that gave the place its reason for existing. Water-driven sawmills and factories along the banks drew workers from the farm country of western Maine, and the village's streets and house lots were laid out to fit between the water and the surrounding hills. Across the state, the economy still leaned heavily on lumber and the coastal shipping that carried it, and the mill towns of the Androscoggin valley turned timber and river power into goods. Residents would have known their village first by its falls and mill whistles, and by the rail and road links that tied it to larger towns down the valley.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Livermore Falls, Maine, 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,376 × 5,056 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Livermore Falls, Maine |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489145 |
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