Superior, Wisconsin, 1890 – 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.)
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Step back in time with Superior, Wisconsin, 1890, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Superior, Wisconsin, 1890
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Superior, Wisconsin, in 1890 was a lake port still closely tied to the lumber trade that had drawn settlers to the head of Lake Superior. Sawmills and lumber yards lined the waterfront along the bay and the St. Louis River, and their output, together with grain and iron ore moving across the docks, kept the harbor busy through the navigation season and quiet when ice closed the lake each winter. As the seat of Douglas County, the town was also building its civic life, with new streets, schools, and churches climbing the hillside above the business district. For people living there, Superior was above all a working lumber and shipping town, and its prospects rose and fell with the price of pine and the size of each season's shipments.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Superior, Wisconsin, drawn in 1890. 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 | 6,114 × 3,772 px · prints to 20 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491416 |
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