Middlebury, Vermont, 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Middlebury, Vermont, 1886. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Middlebury, Vt
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Middlebury, Vermont, 1886
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Middlebury, Vermont, in 1886 was a small market town in Addison County, with farms on its outskirts and Middlebury College on the hill above the village. Otter Creek drops through the center of town, and its falls had long powered sawmills, gristmills, and workshops along the banks, making the valley the economic core of the community. Dairy farming and earlier wool-growing shaped the surrounding countryside, and farm goods moved out through the village by rail, which had reached the area by the 1850s. Middlebury College, founded in 1800, gave the town much of its character, and students, professors, and their families were a visible part of daily life on the main streets. Residents would have known Middlebury as a quiet place where college life and country commerce existed side by side.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | burleigh, l. r., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Middlebury, 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 | 8,480 × 4,680 px · prints to 28 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Middlebury, Vt |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491239 |
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