New Milford, Connecticut, 1906 – 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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New Milford, Connecticut, 1906 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of New Milford, Connecticut, 1906
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New Milford, Connecticut, 1906
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New Milford, Connecticut, in 1906 was a river town in the Housatonic Valley of Litchfield County, where mills along the water and farms on the surrounding hills supplied much of its work. Tanning, lumber, and other small manufacturing drew workers to the riverfront, while the rail line running up the valley connected the town to markets to the south and north. Its main street and village green formed the civic center, where churches, shops, and public buildings stood close together and where townspeople gathered for holidays and town business. Residents of the time would have known New Milford as a quiet, self-sufficient community, shaped by its river, its farms, and the steady routines of small-town life in the early twentieth century.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Milford, Connecticut, drawn in 1906. 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 | 9,536 × 7,840 px · prints to 32 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of New Milford, Connecticut, 1906 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488142 |
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