Watertown, Connecticut, 1918 – 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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This rare antique map captures Watertown, Connecticut, 1918 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Watertown, Connecticut 1918
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Watertown, Connecticut, 1918
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Watertown, Connecticut, in 1918 was a small town in Litchfield County, where farms, mills, and a few small factories sat alongside the Taft School, a private preparatory school that drew boys from well-to-do families across the Northeast. The town's neighbors to the south, Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, were then among the country's leading centers of brass and wire manufacturing, and many Watertown residents commuted to or depended on that industry. The year itself was dominated by the First World War, with local families sending sons overseas, rationing and war bond drives shaping daily life, and the influenza epidemic arriving in the fall. In that year, Watertown residents would have known their town as a quiet rural community tied closely to the wider industrial economy of the Naugatuck Valley.
| Created / published | 1918 |
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| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Watertown, Connecticut, drawn in 1918. 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 | 10,736 × 6,976 px · prints to 36 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Watertown, Connecticut 1918 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488163 |
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