Brockton, Massachusetts, 1882 – 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: Brockton, Massachusetts, 1882, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Brockton, Plymouth County, Mass. 1882
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Brockton, Massachusetts, 1882
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Brockton, Massachusetts, in 1882 was a young city, incorporated only the year before, and it was already known across New England as Shoe City. Boot and shoe manufacturing had grown up through the middle decades of the century, with workshops and factories clustered near the center and rail lines carrying leather, finished footwear, and workers in and out. The Old Colony Railroad ran through the town, linking its factories to Boston and to the ports where shoes were shipped. Residents who studied this view would have recognized a community whose fortunes rose and fell with the shoe trade, its streets lined with homes of cutters, lasters, and shop owners.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, poole, a. f., stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brockton, Massachusetts, drawn in 1882. 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--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 12,208 × 7,728 px · prints to 41 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Brockton, Plymouth County, Mass. 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488891 |
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