Museum purchase - Hoadley Fund, 1948.21.1 Photograph by David Stansbury © 2003 The Connecticu…

Map of the Boroughs of Danbury and Bethel, Fairfield County, Conn.

PrinterPrinted by Friend & Aub (American, founded 1852)

Dateabout 1855

MediumLithography; black printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper mounted on fabric

DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 46 3/4 x 36 1/4in. (118.7 x 92.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 49 1/2 x 38in. (125.7 x 96.5cm)

ClassificationsGraphics

Credit LineMuseum purchase - Hoadley Fund

DescriptionMap showing the boroughs of Danbury and Bethel and the village of Mill Plain. The position of the three separate maps does not appear to relate to the actual positions of the three communities. Streets are clearly identified and buildings are accompanied by the names of property owners. Streams are shown but not identified and elevation is not indicated. What appear to be cemeteries are colored green, with small willow trees. The vignettes surrounding the maps depict Clark's Cash Store, Lyman Keeler's Pahquioque Hotel, the new schoolhouse, Danbury Institute, the premises of Charles E. Andrews, manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tin, the Wooster Hotel, Charles Hull's residence and manufactory, Wildman and Fry's Hatforming Factory and Sawmill, and the residences of L. P. Hoyt, S. A. Hurlbut, P. A. Sutton, Frederick S. Wildman, G. W. Ives, and Mrs. Laura Barnum. Although hat factories do not figure prominently in the vignettes, the locations of several hat factories are indicated on the map itself.

Object number1948.21.1

NotesCartographic Note: One inch equals fifteen perches. A perch is an almost obsolete unit of measurement. The exact length of perch varies from country to country. Since the surveyor of this map was apparently of Irish origin, perhaps he used the Irish perch which equals twenty-one feet. The perch was never a standard unit of measure in the United States.

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