Wallingford, Connecticut, 1905 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Wallingford, Connecticut, 1905. 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 Wallingford, Connecticut
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Wallingford, Connecticut, 1905
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Wallingford, Connecticut, in 1905 was a river town of the Quinnipiac valley, about ten miles north of New Haven, with a mix of mills, small factories, and farms on its outskirts. Its manufacturing base included metalwork and the production of household goods, and the rail line running through town tied its shops and mills to New Haven and other markets. The Choate School, founded in Wallingford in 1896 as a private boarding school for boys, had by then become one of the town's most visible institutions, drawing students and families from well beyond the county. Residents of the period would have known the town for its churches, its Main Street commerce, and the working neighborhoods along the river, all of which a bird's-eye view of this kind was meant to show at a glance.
| Created / published | 1905 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wallingford, Connecticut, drawn in 1905. 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 | 10,496 × 8,224 px · prints to 35 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Wallingford, Connecticut |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488160 |
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