Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1877 – 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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This antique map of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1877 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1877
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1877
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Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1877 was an old seaport on the Piscataqua River, where wharves, warehouses, and the town's brick and frame streets still reflected two centuries of maritime trade. Shipbuilding had been central to the local economy before the Civil War, but the shift from wooden sailing vessels to iron and steam hulls was reshaping the waterfront by the late 1870s. Rail lines connected the town to Boston and the interior, bringing freight and passengers and tying Portsmouth into the wider commercial life of New England. Residents of the period knew their town for its colonial-era houses, its harbor, and its civic institutions, many of which stood close to the river. The map records that mix of working waterfront and settled older neighborhoods as it looked in the year Rutherford B. Hayes took office.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., stoner, j. j., d. bremner co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, drawn in 1877. 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 | 8,192 × 6,656 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489661 |
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