Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1867 – 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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A window into the past: Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1867, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., Wisconsin 1867
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1867
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 1867 was a lumber and shipping town at the mouth of the Fox River, where the river meets the bay of Lake Michigan. Sawmills lined the river and the waterfront, and schooners and steamers carried boards and shingles south to Chicago and other lake ports. The town was also the seat of Brown County, so its courthouse, churches and stores drew farmers and loggers from the surrounding countryside. Its residents were a mix of French-speaking families, descendants of the fur traders who first built a post here, and newer German, Dutch and Belgian immigrants clearing farms in the nearby woods. The view captures a community whose fortunes still rose and fell with the water and the pine forests upriver.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Green Bay, Wisconsin, drawn in 1867. 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 | 8,912 × 6,784 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Green Bay and Fort Howard, Brown Co., Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491387 |
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