Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1884 – 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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Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1884 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Great Barrington, Mass
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Great Barrington, Massachusetts, 1884
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Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1884 was a mill village in the southern Berkshire Hills, built along the Housatonic River, where falling water had long powered sawmills, gristmills, and textile works. Its streets served surrounding farms and a growing number of factories, and the railroad running up the Housatonic valley linked the town to Connecticut and New York markets. Summer visitors from the larger cities were beginning to discover the Berkshires, and their demand for hotels and boarding houses added a new kind of trade to the local economy. Residents would have known the town for its churches, schools, and busy main street, and for the river that shaped its growth. The map shows that town as it stood then, with its mills and houses along the water.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, drawn in 1884. 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 | 9,952 × 5,456 px · prints to 33 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Great Barrington, Mass |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488907 |
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