Blue Hill, Maine, 1896 – 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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Blue Hill, Maine, 1896 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Blue Hill, Maine, 1896
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Blue Hill, a harbor village on Blue Hill Bay in Hancock County, Maine, was in 1896 a community that lived by the water. Its economy rested on coastal schooner trade, fishing, and the small shipyards that had long lined the bay, and its families knew the sea as their main livelihood. By the 1890s, summer visitors were beginning to arrive along this shore, bringing boarding houses and a seasonal rhythm that sat alongside the working harbor. The village was still small, and its street grid, wharves, and church steeples were the familiar landmarks that residents would have recognized at a glance. Much of the town's daily life, from commerce on the waterfront to civic meetings in its public buildings, centered on those few streets running down toward the bay.
| Created / published | 1896 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Blue Hill, Maine, drawn in 1896. 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--Maine |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,152 × 4,223 px · prints to 24 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Blue Hill, Maine, 1896 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489138 |
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