Clifton Heights, Massachusetts, 1908 – Vintage 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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A window into the past: Clifton Heights, Massachusetts, 1908, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: [Clifton Heights]
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Clifton Heights, Massachusetts, 1908
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Clifton Heights, Massachusetts, in 1908 belonged to a state whose economy still rested on manufacturing, with textile mills along its rivers and shoe and metalworking shops in the towns around Boston. Electric streetcars and steam railroads tied small communities like this one to larger cities, carrying workers to their jobs and goods to outlying hillsides. Progressive-era town governments were also debating schools, sanitation, and water supply as populations grew. Detailed records for this particular village are thin in the sources I can confidently draw on, so its daily life is best understood through the wider Massachusetts pattern of the time, when churches, lodges, and neighborhood stores held much of community life together.
| Created / published | 1908 |
|---|---|
| Creator | dill, geo. a. (george a.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,109 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Clifton Heights] |
| Reference | MA Clifton Heights 1908 |
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