Holoyoke, Massachusetts, 1877 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Holoyoke, Massachusetts, 1877, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Holoyoke, Massachusetts, 1877
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Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1877 was a young industrial city on the Connecticut River, where canals carried water from the falls to turn the wheels of paper mills and textile works. The land had been farmland until the Holyoke Water Power Company laid out its streets and canals in the 1840s, and by the time the city was incorporated in 1873 it was known as the Paper City for the paper its mills shipped out by rail. Mill jobs drew large numbers of Irish and French Canadian workers, and the crowded blocks near the canals held a population that grew quickly through the decade. Residents would have known the city first by its smokestacks and the roar of the falls that powered everything from paper machines to looms.
| Created / published | 1877 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Holoyoke, Massachusetts, drawn in 1877. 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 11,392 × 8,480 px · prints to 38 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488915 |
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