Providence, Rhode Island, 1895 – 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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This antique map of Providence, Rhode Island, 1895 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: A bird's-eye view of Providence : showing the new railroad station and State House
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Providence, Rhode Island, 1895
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Providence, Rhode Island, in 1895 was one of the leading industrial cities in New England, with jewelry and silverware makers, cotton and worsted mills along the Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck rivers, and a working harbor at the head of Narragansett Bay. The city had grown to well over 100,000 residents, and its factories drew workers from Ireland, French Canada, Italy, and Portugal, shaping neighborhoods on the North End and South Side. Brown University crowned College Hill above the downtown, and the city's wealthy families built large houses nearby. Residents of the time knew Providence as the "jewelry capital" of the country, a reputation that rested on the workshops packed into the streets shown on this map.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | chapin, j. r. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Providence, Rhode Island, drawn in 1895. 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--Rhode Island |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 2,174 × 1,612 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | A bird's-eye view of Providence : showing the new railroad station and State House |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490786 |
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