Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1885 – Antique Map Print
(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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Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1885 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Whitewater, Wisconsin, 1885
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Whitewater, a small city in Walworth County in southern Wisconsin, was in 1885 a place shaped by farming and by its state normal school, which had been training teachers there since the late 1860s. Surrounding farms sent grain, livestock and dairy goods to market, and the railroad through town connected local merchants to larger markets such as Chicago. Water-powered mills and workshops along the creek gave the town its working edge, while the normal school gave it a statewide reputation as a place where teachers were trained. Residents took pride in their churches, schools and the steady growth of their streets, and that civic confidence is visible in how carefully every block was recorded.
| Created / published | 1885 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Whitewater, Wisconsin, drawn in 1885. 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 | 10,016 × 6,208 px · prints to 33 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491427 |
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