Alton, New Hampshire, 1888 – 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: Alton, New Hampshire, 1888, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Alton and Alton Bay, N.H. 1888
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Alton, New Hampshire, 1888
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Alton, New Hampshire, in 1888 was a farming and mill town in Belknap County whose fortunes had begun to turn toward summer visitors. Its shoreline on Lake Winnipesaukee drew city families who arrived by rail and by lake steamer at Alton Bay, where a branch line from the Wolfeboro region had reached the water in the early 1870s. Local residents would have known the town for its working river villages, its sawmills and gristmills along the Merrymeeting River, and the steady traffic of boarding houses and cottages that the season brought. Farming remained the backbone of the surrounding hill country, and many families still split their year between fields and seasonal trade on the lake. The town's streets, churches and schoolhouses in 1888 reflected a community that was still largely rural but increasingly shaped by the people who came to stay for a summer.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | norris, george e., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Alton, New Hampshire, drawn in 1888. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,712 × 4,656 px · prints to 26 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Alton and Alton Bay, N.H. 1888 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489631 |
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