Newton, Massachusetts, 1878 – 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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A window into the past: Newton, Massachusetts, 1878, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Newton, Massachusetts, 1878
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Newton, Massachusetts, in 1878 was a cluster of villages strung along the Charles River west of Boston, joined by the Boston and Albany Railroad, whose trains carried commuters to downtown Boston each morning. Newton was not yet a city; it had been incorporated as a town in 1688 and was known for its many villages, including Newton center, Newtonville, Auburndale, and West Newton, each with its own depot, churches, and shops. Its residents were largely prosperous businessmen and professionals who built large houses on tree-lined streets, while mills and manufacturing were concentrated along the river and the rail lines. A map drawn that year would have shown this suburban pattern taking shape as the town grew.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1878. 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 | 8,368 × 6,496 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488935 |
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