Concord, New Hampshire, 1899 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Concord, New Hampshire, 1899. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Concord, N.H. 1899
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Concord, New Hampshire, 1899
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In 1899 Concord, New Hampshire, was the state capital, with its legislature meeting in the granite State House on the hill above the Merrimack River. The city's economy rested on government work, the railroads that passed through its yards, and manufacturing. Abbot-Downing's shops were still building the Concord coach, the stagecoach whose name had traveled west with the mail and passengers. Across the river, in Penacook and West Concord, mills and granite works drew workers and gave the city a population of roughly 20,000. Residents of the time would have known Concord for its granite, its coaches, and its role as the seat of state government.
| Created / published | 1899 |
|---|---|
| Creator | poole, a. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Concord, New Hampshire, drawn in 1899. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,672 × 6,928 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Concord, N.H. 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489637 |
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