Rockland, Massachusetts, 1881 – 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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Rockland, Massachusetts, 1881 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the town of Rockland, Plymouth County, Mass. : 1881
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Rockland, Massachusetts, 1881
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Rockland, Massachusetts, in 1881 was a relatively new town on the South Shore, set off from Abington in 1874. Its economy rested on the boot and shoe trade, with cutting rooms, stitching shops, and factories clustered near the rail lines that linked it to Boston and the wider Old Colony network. Shoemaking drew workers and their families into town, and the streets in this view show the dense working neighborhoods that grew up around the shops. Civic life centered on the new town government, its churches and schools, and the lodges where residents gathered after their shifts. Those who lived there knew Rockland first as a shoe town, a reputation it carried well into the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, poole, a. f., stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Rockland, Massachusetts, 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,056 × 5,104 px · prints to 24 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the town of Rockland, Plymouth County, Mass. : 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488952 |
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