Antigo, Wisconsin, 1886 – 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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A window into the past: Antigo, Wisconsin, 1886, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: A bird's eye view of the city of Antigo, Wis. county seat of Langlade County 1886
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Antigo, Wisconsin, 1886
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Antigo, Wisconsin, in 1886 was a young lumber town in the north-central part of the state, serving as the seat of Langlade County. Its growth came from the great pine and hemlock forests that surrounded it, and sawmills and lumber yards along the river and rail lines turned those logs into lumber shipped to markets farther south. The arrival of railroad service in the early 1880s had made the settlement a place where timber could be moved out and supplies moved in, and the county courthouse and local businesses gave it a civic role beyond the camps. Residents of the period would have known Antigo as a frontier town still being built, with much of its landscape changing from one season to the next as logging moved deeper into the woods.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Antigo, Wisconsin, drawn in 1886. 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 | 7,760 × 4,848 px · prints to 26 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | A bird's eye view of the city of Antigo, Wis. county seat of Langlade County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491372 |
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