Sanford, Maine, 1889 – 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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A window into the past: Sanford, Maine, 1889, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Sanford, Maine
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Sanford, Maine, 1889
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Sanford, Maine, in 1889 was a mill town on the Mousam River in York County, where water power drove the textile works that gave the place its identity. The Goodall family's worsted and plush mills, which made cloth for upholstery and clothing, employed a large share of the local workforce, and the streets near them filled with housing for mill hands. A rail line linked the town to Portland and to the wider Boston market, letting goods move out and workers travel in from surrounding farms. Churches, schools, and the business blocks of the village formed the center of civic life, and residents would have known Sanford first as a manufacturing community rather than a farming town. The map captures that industrial landscape at a time when mill growth was reshaping New England's small river towns.
| Created / published | 1889 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sanford, Maine, drawn in 1889. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,768 × 5,024 px · prints to 29 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sanford, Maine |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489156 |
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