Southington, Connecticut, 1914 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Southington, Connecticut, 1914 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Southington, Connecticut 1914
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Southington, Connecticut, 1914
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Southington, Connecticut, in Hartford County, was a mix of farm country and small manufacturing in 1914. Its mills and shops turned out metal goods, and the town's factories drew workers from surrounding farms and villages, while the outlying fields still held orchards and dairy herds. In the summer of 1914, war broke out in Europe, and local residents followed the news in the same weekly papers that carried notices of church suppers, town meetings and school events. The town's older village centers, with their white churches and town green, were still the heart of civic life, even as new houses and factory buildings spread along the roads leading out of them.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Southington, Connecticut, drawn in 1914. 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 | 11,712 × 8,752 px · prints to 39 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Southington, Connecticut 1914 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488153 |
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