Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1879 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1879 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Milwaukee, Wis. 1879
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1879
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Milwaukee in 1879 was a city of roughly 115,000 people at the 1880 census, and the lithograph shows a lakefront economy that had grown well beyond the harbor of two decades earlier. Brewing had become one of its defining trades, with large breweries clustered on the west side and along the river valleys, and the beer they shipped was known well beyond Wisconsin. Factories, foundries and tanneries worked along the Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers, while the grain elevators and lumber docks still gave the waterfront its busy look. Milwaukee's German majority kept its turnverein halls, singing societies and beer gardens at the center of civic and social life, and its residents would have described the city first as a brewing and manufacturing town on Lake Michigan.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Creator | beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawn in 1879. 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 | 12,591 × 8,384 px · prints to 42 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Milwaukee, Wis. 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491399 |
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