Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, 1870 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, 1870, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Prairie du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870
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Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, 1870
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Prairie du Sac, a village on the Wisconsin River in Sauk County, stood in 1870 as a working river town across from its neighbor Sauk City. Its economy rested on the river itself, with a dam and mill sites that turned water power into flour and lumber, and rafts of logs floated down the Wisconsin from the northern pineries. Farms on the surrounding prairie were largely wheat country, though many families were German immigrants whose churches, schools, and German-language newspapers gave the community a distinct character. The map records a town still in the middle of its growth, when the river was the main highway and the railroad was only beginning to change how its grain and goods reached market.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, drawn in 1870. 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 | 5,896 × 5,112 px · prints to 20 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Prairie du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491408 |
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