Madison, Connecticut, 1881 – 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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Step back in time with Madison, Connecticut, 1881, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of Madison, Conn. 1881
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Madison, Connecticut, 1881
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Madison, Connecticut, in 1881 was a shoreline town of farms, orchards, and village streets facing Long Island Sound, about 15 miles east of New Haven. Oystering and fishing along the coast were important to local livelihoods, and the town's earlier seafaring past, with its coastal vessels and wharves, still shaped how residents thought of the harbor. The Shore Line railroad, which ran along the coast, tied the village to New Haven and to the wider region, while the Congregational church and the green remained the center of civic and social life. Residents of the period would have known Madison as a quiet, working community of seafarers, farmers, and church families rather than as the summer resort it later became.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Madison, Connecticut, drawn in 1881. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,568 × 5,216 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Madison, Conn. 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488132 |
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