Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1878 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1878 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Chicopee, Mass. 1878
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Chicopee, Massachusetts, 1878
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Chicopee, Massachusetts, in 1878 was a manufacturing town on the Connecticut River valley's east side, still governed as a town and not yet a city, with its center and mill villages strung along the Chicopee River where it drops toward the Connecticut opposite Springfield. Water power drove the works at Chicopee Falls, where the Ames Manufacturing Company had long produced edged tools, swords, and machinery, and its name carried well beyond the valley. Irish and French Canadian families filled the housing near the mills, and the town's fortunes were closely tied to the larger city across the river. Residents of the 1870s would have known Chicopee chiefly for its factories and its nearness to Springfield, and the street-by-street view records a community in the middle of that industrial growth.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Creator | galt & hoy, d. bremner co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chicopee, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,904 × 6,160 px · prints to 26 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chicopee, Mass. 1878 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488893 |
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