Barre, Massachusetts, 1891 – 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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This rare antique map captures Barre, Massachusetts, 1891 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: Barre, Massachusetts
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Barre, Massachusetts, 1891
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In 1891 Barre, Massachusetts, sat among the wooded hills of northern Worcester County, and its young people increasingly looked south to Worcester, the county seat, where machine shops, wire works, and shoe factories were hiring. Many families found that a farm could no longer support every son and daughter, so some left for city jobs while others stayed on the home place. Across the region, towns were also replacing older buildings and putting up new schools and churches. This view records the streets, house lots, and steeples as they stood just as that shift toward the mill cities was getting underway.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Barre, Massachusetts, drawn in 1891. 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 | 8,032 × 6,800 px · prints to 27 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Barre, Massachusetts |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488880 |
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