In this section, the digitized Maine's Bird's Eye views are organized alphabetically by City/Town name. Views of specific events or locations, e.g. "The Encampment of the First Brigade, Maine Volunteer Militia, 1885," are organized within their parent City/Town, in this case, Augusta.

The Bird’s-Eye View of Waterville will probably be delivered next week. Mr. Patchen, the delivering agent, awaited the arrival of the pictures here for several days, but has now gone to deliver to towns down the river.

The site consists of an exhibition catalogue with relevant short essays on the history of Maine (1870-1905), the history of Maine Bird's Eye views, and short biographical sketches of Bird's Eye view artists working in Maine at the turn-of-the-century, as well as a fully searchable Map Gallery featuring digitized images of these town and city ...

View the Vintage City Maps collection of old maps of Maine – restored bird’s eye view & panoramic maps of Maine‘s cities & towns.

I. Bird’s Eye Views of Maine Views of towns and cities may have been the most popular category of printed images in nineteenth century America. They have also been known as bird’s eye views, perspective maps and aero views.

Shop Old Town ME 1854 from Vintage City Maps - offering the most extensive collection of restored bird's eye view and panoramic maps available.

Maine Birds' Eye View Reprints Beautiful urban views from the collections of the Library of Congress. You can download or study these views for free, or order a print for wall display.

This 1876 view of the Portland peninsula records in finely rendered architectural and topographic detail the city's resurgence and rapid population growth after the Great Fire of 1866. Virtually every structure in the city is depicted, documenting its …

Atlas Name: Blue Hill 1896 Bird's Eye View, Publisher: George E. Norris, Publish Date: 1896; Location: Maine

A University of Southern Maine-led history project is looking at post-Civil War Maine from the perspective of the birds. The Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education project — “Maine’s Bird’s Eye Views, 1870-1905” — has gathered 80 aerial renderings of Maine communities published during the era. Each has been ...