Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, 1877 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, 1877. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Salmon Falls, Strafford Co., New Hampshire 1877
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Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, 1877
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Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, sat on the Salmon Falls River along the border with Maine, and in 1877 its economy still rested on the water-powered cloth mills that had shaped the village for more than half a century. The Salmon Falls Manufacturing Company's mills lined the riverbanks, and their workers, many of them recent arrivals from Ireland and French Canada, lived in company-built housing clustered close to the works. The national depression that followed the Panic of 1873 had slowed orders and stretched wages across New England's textile towns, so mill whistles and shift changes marked the rhythm of daily life here. Residents would have known Salmon Falls first as a manufacturing village tied to the river, a place where the falls powered the looms and the mill's fortunes set the mood of the community.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | jos. b. richards & co. lith, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Salmon Falls, 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 | 4,280 × 3,528 px · prints to 14 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Salmon Falls, Strafford Co., New Hampshire 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489664 |
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