Nantasket, Massachusetts, 1879 – 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 Nantasket, Massachusetts, 1879. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: View of Nantasket Beach, looking s.e. from Sagamore Hill
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Nantasket, Massachusetts, 1879
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Nantasket, on the rocky peninsula at the mouth of Boston Harbor in 1879, was known to Bostonians mainly as a summer seaside resort. Its beaches and cottages drew city families and day-trippers who reached it by steamboat from the wharves in Boston, and the village of Hull, which holds the peninsula, depended on that summer trade alongside its fishing and boatbuilding. The decade was a period of growing popularity for seaside retreats along the New England coast, as rail and steamer lines made a day's escape from the city affordable for more people. Nantasket's hotels, bathing houses and wharves were the everyday fixtures of a place that many Massachusetts residents knew best as a summer destination.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | mallory, richard p., geo. h. walker & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Nantasket, Massachusetts, drawn in 1879. 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 | 8,688 × 5,776 px · prints to 29 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Nantasket Beach, looking s.e. from Sagamore Hill |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488932 |
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