Beverly, Massachusetts, 1886 – 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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Step back in time with Beverly, Massachusetts, 1886, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1886
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Beverly, Massachusetts, 1886
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Beverly, Massachusetts, was still a town in 1886, two years before it would be chartered as a city in 1894. Its economy rested on shoe manufacturing and other factory work along the Bass River, which divides it from neighboring Salem, and the Eastern Railroad line brought commuters and goods through the town. Beverly Farms and Prides Crossing had also become favored summer retreats for well-off families from Boston, so the town held both mill workers and seasonal wealth on its shores. Residents would have known Beverly as a working harbor town with a growing waterfront of houses, churches, and shops, and this view records that mix of industry and summer life at the moment before its change in status.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | w. a. greenough & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Beverly, Massachusetts, drawn in 1886. 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 | 8,336 × 6,464 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488881 |
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