Warner, New Hampshire, 1884 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Warner, New Hampshire, 1884. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Warner, New Hampshire, 1884
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Warner, New Hampshire, in 1884 was a farming and mill town in the Contoocook River valley of Merrimack County, where water power had long driven sawmills and small shops along the river. Like much of rural New England at the time, it was losing people. Hill farms were being abandoned as young men and women moved to the expanding textile cities of southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts, or west to newer farmland. The village center, with its churches, stores, and houses set along the streets, was the part of town most residents would have recognized as Warner itself, and the map records it as a community that still depended on the river and the land around it.
| Created / published | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Warner, New Hampshire, drawn in 1884. 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 7,312 × 4,848 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489667 |
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