Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1906 – 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 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1906, 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 South Milwaukee]
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1906
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Milwaukee in 1906 was a lakeshore manufacturing city of roughly 300,000 people, with its factories and warehouses spread along the Menomonee and Kinnickinnic rivers and its harbor still handling grain and coal. Electric streetcars, consolidated under a single company in the early 1900s, carried workers from the mills and tanneries out to new neighborhoods on the north and south sides. Among the smaller enterprises taking shape that year was a young motorcycle maker, Harley-Davidson, which was still operating from a modest shop rather than a large plant. Residents would have known their city as a working town of machinery, leather and freight on Lake Michigan, one that measured itself against Chicago to the south and kept a strong sense of its own neighborhoods and civic pride.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | binner engraving co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawn in 1906. 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 | 6,016 × 3,272 px · prints to 20 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's-eye view of South Milwaukee] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491401 |
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