Washburn, Wisconsin, 1886 – Antique Map Print
(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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This rare antique map captures Washburn, Wisconsin, 1886 in remarkable 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 Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County 1886
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Washburn, Wisconsin, 1886
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Washburn, Wisconsin, in 1886 was a young lumber and shipping town on Chequamegon Bay, on the Lake Superior shore. It had been laid out only a few years earlier and was named for Cadwallader C. Washburn, a former Wisconsin governor and Minneapolis milling figure whose money and influence helped bring the town into being. Sawmills and the lake trade drew workers from the surrounding pine country and from Scandinavian and German immigrant families, and new frame houses, churches, and stores were still going up along the streets. A rail line linked the town to the wider state, while neighboring Ashland competed for the same lumber and ore business. Residents would have known Washburn as a place where the woods met the lake, and where each arriving boat or train brought news.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Washburn, Wisconsin, drawn in 1886. 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 | 7,056 × 5,136 px · prints to 24 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491419 |
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