Warren, Massachusetts, 1879 – 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 Warren, Massachusetts, 1879 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of Warren, Mass. : 1879
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Warren, Massachusetts, 1879
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In 1879, Warren, Massachusetts, was a small town in the Quaboag Valley of central Worcester County, where farms on the hills stood beside mill buildings along the river. Its economy rested mainly on manufacturing, especially textile and woolen work powered by the Quaboag's falls, together with dairying and general farming on the surrounding land. Like many New England mill towns of the Gilded Age, Warren depended on a steady supply of workers and on the goods that moved out by road and rail to larger markets such as Worcester and Springfield. Churches, schools, and a town hall gave the village its civic life, and local families measured the year by the mill schedules, the harvest, and the town's routine affairs. The street-by-street view of Warren drawn that year preserves the arrangement of those houses, shops, and works as residents knew them.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Warren, Massachusetts, drawn in 1879. 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 | 7,920 × 6,128 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Warren, Mass. : 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488962 |
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