Fall River, Massachusetts, 1877 – Antique Wall Map
(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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A window into the past: Fall River, Massachusetts, 1877, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: City of Fall River, Mass. 1877
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Fall River, Massachusetts, 1877
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Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1877 was one of the largest cotton-manufacturing cities in the country, its skyline dominated by brick mill buildings lining the Quequechan River and the harbor on Mount Hope Bay. Textile production had driven the city's growth since the 1820s, and by the 1870s thousands of mill workers, many of them immigrants from Ireland, England, Portugal and French Canada, crowded into tenements and boarding houses close to the looms. Railroad lines and steamboat connections to New York and Providence carried finished cloth outward, while the city's merchants and manufacturers built fine residences on the hills to the east. The bird's-eye view records this landscape street by street, showing the mills, churches and dense downtown blocks as local residents knew them.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Creator | c.h. vogt (firm), j. knauber & co, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes), hazen, j. c. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fall River, Massachusetts, 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 13,027 × 8,416 px · prints to 43 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | City of Fall River, Mass. 1877 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488901 |
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