Rutland, Vermont, 1885 – 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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Rutland, Vermont, 1885 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Rutland, Vt
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Rutland, Vermont, 1885
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Rutland, Vermont, in 1885 was a railroad and marble town on Otter Creek, where quarries in the surrounding hills sent stone to market and rail lines carried it out. Redfield Proctor, a former governor, was closely tied to the marble trade through the Vermont Marble Company, which had been organized in 1880 nearby. Local manufacturers such as the Howe Scale Company employed many workers, and the town's commercial blocks and church spires gave it the look of a prosperous industrial center. Residents of the period knew Rutland for its marble and its mills, and the decade brought steady growth as families moved in from the farms of the surrounding hills.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., c.h. vogt & son |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Rutland, Vermont, drawn in 1885. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,416 × 5,984 px · prints to 35 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Rutland, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491242 |
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