plan of the Pingree Farm in Topsfield, MA
Date: 1963
Inventory Number: 1998-1-1134
Classification: Map
Subject:
Maker: (reproduction) O. Lee Abbot (1897 - 1972)
Maker: (original) Andrew Nichols (1837 - 1921)
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
unfolded: 0.5 x 128.5 x 86.5 cm (3/16 x 50 9/16 x 34 1/16 in.)
folded in half : 0.5 x 64.2 x 44.5 cm (3/16 x 25 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.)
Material:
Accessories: descriptive tag
Description:
This is a plan of the Pingree Farm in Topsfield, M.A, a large space with many barns, fields, gardens, pastures, and the Essex Agricultural Society. According to an accompanying tag, this plan was initially created by Andrew Nichols in 1878, but the version in CHSI is a tracing of the original by a man named O. Lee Abbott of Bangor in 1963. The ragged edges of the plan appear to have been hastily cut with scissors, although the tracing itself is smooth and deliberate. This map is visibly folded in half when in storage. When it is taken out of storage and unfolded it nearly doubles in size.
Signedon the bottom left of the map: BY/ ANDREW NICHOLS C.E./SCALE 100 FEET PER INCH/copied, in part, by O.L.A. 1963/ stone wall
Inscribedon the bottom left of the map: PLAN/OF THE/PINGREE FARM/IN/ TOPSFIELD, MASS./ SURVEYED 1878
From tag in Mr. Wheatland's hand writing: Plan of Pingree Farm /in/ Topsfield Mass/1878/ Reproduced on tracing cloth from copy of the original copied by O. Lee/Abbott Bangor/1963
From tag in Mr. Wheatland's hand writing: Plan of Pingree Farm /in/ Topsfield Mass/1878/ Reproduced on tracing cloth from copy of the original copied by O. Lee/Abbott Bangor/1963
ProvenanceAlthough there is no accessioning information, this clearly came from David Pingree Wheatland.