Greenville, New Hampshire, 1886 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Greenville, New Hampshire, 1886 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Greenville, N.H. 1886
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Greenville, New Hampshire, 1886
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Greenville, New Hampshire, in 1886 was a small manufacturing village in the southern part of the state, drawing its life from the Souhegan River and the mills built along its banks. Water power sustained the factories, which employed local families and drew workers from the farms of the surrounding hill towns. Churches, schools, and village stores gave the community its civic and social center, while the fortunes of a few employers shaped daily life. Like many mill villages of its era, Greenville depended on rail and road links to carry its goods to larger markets, and its residents would have known the town first as a working place of mills and households.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | burleigh, l. r., burleigh litho |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Greenville, New Hampshire, 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--New Hampshire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,592 × 4,976 px · prints to 22 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Greenville, N.H. 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489646 |
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