Historic Maps of New England – George Thorlin, Cartographer
Living in New England, it’s difficult not to notice the local history that is all around us. In many cases our history can be can be told by the buildings… homes, businesses, places of worship, public offices and many other structures that were constructed over the centuries. People continue to visit many of these historic places to get a sense of what it was like to live in New England years ago. At Historic Maps of New England, we attempt to make that historic experience a little easier by providing high quality reproduction prints of historical neighborhood maps. Typically, these oversized maps were published in limited quantities between 1880 and 1920. They were used in the real estate and insurance business. Each map was produced as a black and white lithograph and then hand colored and labeled to indicate land usage and individual ownership. Maps reproduced by Historic Maps of New England are in the public domain. Historic Maps of New England has a large inventory of original maps and lithographs from prominent publishers of the time, including L. J. Richards & Co. and Walker Lithograph & Publishing Co. Our newest additions focus on the Merrimack Valley, Essex County and Barnstable County and include:
- 1884 – Atlas of the towns of Topsfield, Ipswich, Essex, Hamilton and Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts, published by Walker Lithograph & Publishing Co. (80 maps & 51 Lithographs, 17.5 x 27″ full and half page)
- 1906 – Atlas of the city of Lawrence and the towns of Methuen, Andover and North Andover, Massachusetts, published by L.J. Richards & Co. (29 maps, 22×32″ (North Andover 22 x 42″) full page size)
- 1910 – Atlas of Barnstable County, Massachusetts: towns of Bourne, Mashpee, Falmouth, Sandwich, Barnstable, Yarmouth, Dennis, Harwich, Brewster, Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro & Provincetown, published by Walker Lithograph & Pub. Co., (50 hand colored maps showing the towns and villages of Cape Cod, 14×22″ full and half page size)
Reference Display Case – Clare Curran PEANUTS Collection
Clare Curran is a librarian at Memorial Hall Library and has been collecting PEANUTS memorabilia since the early 1970s.