Bridgton, Maine, 1888 – 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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Step back in time with Bridgton, Maine, 1888, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bridgton, Maine, U.S.A. : 1888
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Bridgton, Maine, 1888
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Bridgton, Maine, in 1888 was a small town in the Cumberland County hills, drawing its living from the lakes, woods, and streams that surrounded it. Summer visitors had been arriving for decades to fish and boat on Long Lake and Highland Lake, and the town's hotels and boarding houses depended on them as much as on its mills and farms. The Bridgton and Saco River Railroad, a narrow-gauge line that had reached the town in the early 1880s, carried passengers, lumber, and freight, and it tied the community more closely to Portland and the wider state. Bridgton Academy, founded in 1808, gave the village a school with a long reputation in the region, which is the sort of place residents of the time would have known it for.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bridgton, Maine, drawn in 1888. 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 | 7,968 × 5,744 px · prints to 27 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bridgton, Maine, U.S.A. : 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489139 |
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