Danbury, Connecticut, 1875 – 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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A window into the past: Danbury, Connecticut, 1875, 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: View of Danbury, Conn. 1875
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Danbury, Connecticut, 1875
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Danbury, Connecticut, in 1875 was a hat-making town, and the felt hat trade had shaped its growth for most of the century. Workshops and factories along its streams turned fur into felt, and the work drew laborers from the surrounding farms and from abroad. A railroad reached the town in 1852, carrying finished hats to New York and beyond and tying this inland community to the Atlantic markets. Residents knew the place as Hat City, a name that linked their wages, their neighborhoods, and much of their civic life to a single industry. The mills, shops, and rows of houses drawn on this sheet are the buildings that trade paid for.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Creator | j. knauber & co, c.h. vogt & son, fowler & bailey, bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Danbury, Connecticut, drawn in 1875. 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 | 8,272 × 6,480 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Danbury, Conn. 1875 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488125 |
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