Unionville, Connecticut, 1878 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Unionville, Connecticut, 1878, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: View of Unionville, Conn
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Unionville, Connecticut, 1878
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Unionville, a mill village in the town of Farmington, Connecticut, sat along the Farmington River in 1878, when its economy rested on water-powered factories and the farms of the surrounding hills. Like many small Connecticut manufacturing villages after the Civil War, it depended on a handful of local mills and on skilled workers who lived within walking distance of the riverbank. Its residents knew the village as a compact industrial community, separate from the larger commercial life of Hartford about fifteen miles to the east. The decade also brought steady growth in Connecticut's factory towns, along with the churches, schools, and small shops that a village of this size needed to sustain its population.
| Created / published | 1878 |
|---|---|
| Creator | beck & pauli, o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Unionville, Connecticut, 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--Connecticut |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,432 × 6,656 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Unionville, Conn |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488159 |
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