Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1854 – 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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This antique map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1854 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1854
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Milwaukee in 1854 was a lakeshore city of around 20,000 people, built where the Milwaukee, Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet Lake Michigan. Wisconsin had become a state only six years earlier, and the local economy rested on the grain and flour trade, lumber moving through the harbor, and a growing number of breweries and tanneries worked largely by German and Irish immigrants. Railroads were pushing inland from the waterfront, and the first line out of town had reached Waukesha only a few years before. Residents would have known Milwaukee as the main port on the western shore of Lake Michigan, a place where newly arrived Germans founded churches, newspapers and singing societies alongside the wharves.
| Created / published | 1854 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawn in 1854. 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 |
| Original scan | 12,478 × 8,432 px · prints to 42 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491398 |
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