Hunter, New York, 1890 – 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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A window into the past: Hunter, New York, 1890, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Hunter, N.Y.
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Hunter, New York, 1890
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Hunter, a village in the Catskill Mountains of Greene County, New York, was in 1890 a small community that lived on hemlock bark tanning, sawn lumber, and the summer visitors who came up from the Hudson Valley and New York City to escape the heat. Tanneries drew on the surrounding hemlock forests, which had been cut heavily over the preceding decades, so the local economy rose and fell with the timber and bark trade. The mountain air and scenery made boarding houses and hotels an important source of income each summer, and village life revolved around these seasonal crowds as much as around the mills. Residents of the 1890s would have known Hunter chiefly as a gateway to the high peaks, with Hunter Mountain rising just to the south, rather than as a manufacturing town.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh litho, burleigh, l. r. |
| Notes | Bird's-eye view map. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--New York |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,976 × 5,920 px · prints to 30 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hunter, N.Y. |
| Reference | NY Hunter 1890 |
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