Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1857 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1857, 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: Waukesha, Wis
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Waukesha, Wisconsin, 1857
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Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1857 was a young county seat of about a decade's standing, sitting on the Fox River in the southeastern part of the state. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad had reached the town in 1851, and that line tied local farm produce, grain, and lumber to the markets and mills of Milwaukee and Chicago. Wisconsin had become a state only in 1848, so the courthouse, churches, schools, and shops on the map were the civic core of a community still filling in its streets. Carroll College, founded in the 1840s, gave the town a small academic presence that residents of the surrounding farm country would have recognized as a point of local pride. The map records that town as it stood before the Civil War reshaped the country around it.
| Created / published | 1857 |
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| Creator | kurz, louis |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Waukesha, Wisconsin, drawn in 1857. 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 | 7,040 × 4,928 px · prints to 23 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Waukesha, Wis |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491422 |
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