Whitefield, New Hampshire, 1883 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Whitefield, New Hampshire, 1883 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Whitefield, Coos County, N.H., 1883
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Whitefield, New Hampshire, 1883
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Whitefield, New Hampshire, in Coos County, was a small farming and lumbering town in 1883, set among the hills north of the White Mountains. Its families depended on dairy herds, hay, orchards, and timber cut from the surrounding woodlots, with sawmills working the streams that run through the town. Visitors heading to the mountain hotels and summer boarding houses passed through the region by rail, and the nearby line serving Littleton brought lumber and passengers into the north country. Town meetings, churches, schools, and the grange halls shaped civic life, and most residents would have known Whitefield as a quiet agricultural community whose fortunes rose and fell with the seasons and the price of wood.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | poole & norris, poole, a. f., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Whitefield, 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 | 6,272 × 4,848 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Whitefield, Coos County, N.H., 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489669 |
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