Richmond, Maine, 1878 – 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: Richmond, Maine, 1878, 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: Richmond, Sagadahoc Co., Maine 1878
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Richmond, Maine, 1878
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Richmond, Maine, in 1878 was a small river town on the Kennebec, where the working life of the community depended on the water. Shipbuilding, sawmilling, and the cutting and shipping of river ice gave families their livelihoods, and vessels built in its yards carried lumber and cargo along the coast. The depression that followed the Panic of 1873 had slowed orders through much of the decade, so residents were still measuring their prosperity against the busier years before. Churches, town meetings, and lodge halls shaped civic and social life, and most people would have known Richmond first as a harbor town with wharves, mills, and shipyards. The view records each of those buildings as it stood that year.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., d. bremner co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Richmond, Maine, drawn in 1878. 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 | 6,736 × 4,656 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Richmond, Sagadahoc Co., Maine 1878 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489155 |
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