Windsor, Vermont, 1886 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Windsor, Vermont, 1886, an antique map rich in period 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: Windsor, Vermont 1886
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Windsor, Vermont, 1886
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Windsor, Vermont, sat on the Connecticut River in 1886, and its economy still rested on machine shops and river trade more than on farming. The Robbins and Lawrence Armory had built rifles there in the 1850s and 1860s, and by the 1880s the town's metalworking firms, including Jones and Lamson, kept many families employed. The Vermont State Prison stood in town, and the Cornish-Windsor covered bridge, completed in 1866, carried travelers and freight across the river to New Hampshire. Residents of the period knew Windsor as the place where Vermont's first constitution had been adopted in 1777, a point of civic pride that the town kept alive in its public life.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Windsor, Vermont, drawn in 1886. 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--Vermont |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,824 × 5,240 px · prints to 26 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Windsor, Vermont 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491248 |
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