Wolcottville, Connecticut, 1875 – 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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A window into the past: Wolcottville, Connecticut, 1875, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Wolcottville, Conn
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Wolcottville, Connecticut, 1875
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Wolcottville, in the hills of northwestern Connecticut, was a mill village in 1875, and its fortunes followed the brass and metalworking trade that had made the Naugatuck Valley one of the country's leading industrial districts. Its factories drew on water power from the river and on a workforce that lived in closely packed housing near the works. Rail links through the valley carried finished brass and hardware to markets in New York and New England, and the mills set the rhythm of daily life, with shift whistles and the comings and goings of workers shaping the streets. Local residents would have known the village first as a place of mills, churches and schools built around a single industry, and the map records that dependence in its dense rows of buildings along the water.
| Created / published | 1875 |
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| Creator | d. bremner co, o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wolcottville, Connecticut, drawn in 1875. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,712 × 6,208 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wolcottville, Conn |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488169 |
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