Ripon, Wisconsin, 1867 – 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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Step back in time with Ripon, Wisconsin, 1867, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of the city of Ripon, Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin 1867
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Ripon, Wisconsin, 1867
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Ripon, in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, was a young farming town in 1867, only two years past the end of the Civil War. Ripon College, chartered in 1851 with Congregational and Presbyterian backing, gave the town a community of students and teachers alongside the merchants, mills, and farmers who served the surrounding countryside. Ripon also held a place in national politics: in March 1854, a meeting in the Little White Schoolhouse, organized by Alvan E. Bovay, brought together citizens opposed to the spread of slavery, and it is widely credited as the first organized step toward founding the Republican Party. The street-by-street detail on this sheet records a town its residents knew as a college and farm center with a claim to that political history.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ripon, Wisconsin, drawn in 1867. 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--Wisconsin |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,000 × 6,544 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of the city of Ripon, Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491411 |
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