Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1914 – 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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A window into the past: Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1914, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Haverhill, Massachusetts 1914
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Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1914
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Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1914 was a Merrimack River city whose shoe factories still set its pace, though the year was shaped by news from abroad. That summer war broke out in Europe, and the shoe trade, which relied on export orders and the leather and shipping networks that supported them, faced uncertainty as buyers and shipping routes shifted. Local people followed the war news in the same newspapers that reported on school boards, mill strikes, and the trolley lines that carried workers to the outlying lakes and villages on summer weekends. The street plan drawn that year shows a city still crowded along its river and rail lines, with the downtown blocks of Merrimack Street and the mill yards close together.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey, downs, a. e. (albert e.), fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Haverhill, Massachusetts, drawn in 1914. 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 | 9,776 × 8,320 px · prints to 33 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Haverhill, Massachusetts 1914 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488910 |
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