Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1914 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1914. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aero-view of Amesbury, Massachusetts 1914
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Amesbury, Massachusetts, 1914
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Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1914 was a Merrimack Valley town in the middle of a shift, as the carriage works that had long defined its economy turned toward building bodies for automobiles. The change mirrored a national market that was moving quickly away from the horse-drawn buggy. The Powow River, which runs through the town to join the Merrimack, had powered mills for generations, and its banks held the brick factories and workshops that gave the streets their working character. Residents followed news of the war that had begun in Europe that August, but at home daily life centered on church suppers, school commencements, and the business of the town meeting.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Amesbury, Massachusetts, drawn in 1914. 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 | 9,728 × 6,400 px · prints to 32 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero-view of Amesbury, Massachusetts 1914 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488873 |
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