MA Nantucket 1881 – 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: MA Nantucket 1881, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts. 1881
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MA Nantucket 1881
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Few towns on the Atlantic coast changed as sharply as Nantucket, and this 1881 panoramic map captures the island just as its fortunes were shifting. Drawn in the bird's-eye style that J. J. Stoner and the lithographers Beck & Pauli of Milwaukee made popular, it presents the town from above, with streets, wharves and harbor laid out in close detail. In the mid-nineteenth century Nantucket was one of the world's leading whaling ports, but the decline of whaling and the rise of petroleum lamp oil left the island with a quieter economy by the 1880s, which makes such views especially useful to study.
| Created / published | 1881 |
|---|---|
| Creator | beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 834 × 600 px |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the town of Nantucket in the State of Massachusetts. 1881 |
| Reference | MA-Nantucket-1881 |
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