Thomaston, Connecticut, 1879 – 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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This rare antique map captures Thomaston, Connecticut, 1879 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of Thomaston, Conn. 1879
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Thomaston, Connecticut, 1879
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Thomaston, Connecticut, in 1879 was a young town in the Naugatuck River valley of Litchfield County, set off from Plymouth only a few years earlier, in 1875. Its economy rested largely on clockmaking, and the Seth Thomas Clock Company, one of the best-known clock firms in the country, gave the town much of its identity and drew workers and their families to the valley. Mills and shops along the river depended on water power, and the railroad running up the valley carried local goods to Waterbury and the coast. Residents who studied this map would have known Thomaston as a clock town, a place of churches, schools, and close-knit factory neighborhoods shaped by the industry of the previous half century.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Thomaston, Connecticut, drawn in 1879. 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,744 × 6,000 px · prints to 26 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Thomaston, Conn. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488156 |
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