Winchester, Massachusetts, 1898 – 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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Step back in time with Winchester, Massachusetts, 1898, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Winchester, Massachusetts 1898
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Winchester, Massachusetts, 1898
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Winchester, Massachusetts, in 1898 was a residential town of tree-lined streets and large family houses, about eight miles north of Boston. Its growth depended on the railroad, since the Boston and Lowell line carried commuters to downtown offices and mills along the Merrimack, and many of the town's households were professional or clerical families who lived there and worked in the city. The town's ponds and wooded hills drew residents to outdoor recreation, and the Metropolitan Park Commission was then assembling reservations such as the Middlesex Fells just to the south and east. The year also fell during the Spanish-American War, which brought news of volunteer regiments and military trains into local conversation across Massachusetts.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Creator | heliotype printing company, robbins, a., robbins & enrich |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Winchester, Massachusetts, drawn in 1898. 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 | 9,440 × 6,928 px · prints to 31 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Winchester, Massachusetts 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488968 |
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