Bethel, Vermont, 1886 – 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 Bethel, Vermont, 1886 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bethel, Vt. 1886
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Bethel, Vermont, 1886
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In 1886 Bethel was a farming and mill village in the White River valley of Windsor County, Vermont, with its houses and shops strung along the river and the roads that climbed into the surrounding hills. Most Vermont towns of that decade still depended on agriculture, with dairy herds, hay fields, and sheep on the slopes, and the railroads carried milk, butter, and lumber to markets beyond the state. Town meetings, churches, and district schools governed much of daily life, and residents knew one another's farms, mills, and storefronts by name. The map fixes the village at a single moment, the kind of close local detail that neighbors would have recognized at once.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Bethel, Vermont, drawn in 1886. 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 | 7,592 × 5,168 px · prints to 25 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bethel, Vt. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491231 |
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