Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 1883 – 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 rare antique map captures Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 1883 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Bethlehem, Grafton County, N.H. 1883
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Bethlehem, New Hampshire, 1883
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Bethlehem, New Hampshire, in 1883 was a mountain resort and farming town in the White Mountains, and its fortunes rested on the railroad and the summer trade. The Profile and Franconia Notch Railroad had reached the town by the early 1880s, bringing city visitors up from Boston and New York to stay in large hotels and boarding houses. Local farms supplied dairy, hay, and produce to those guests, while the town's few mills and shops served the surrounding hill farms. The map records each building on the village streets, showing which lots were occupied by hotels and which by homes and barns, a detail that reflects how much the community depended on seasonal visitors.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | poole & norris, poole, a. f., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bethlehem, New Hampshire, drawn in 1883. 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 | 6,560 × 5,424 px · prints to 22 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Bethlehem, Grafton County, N.H. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489634 |
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