Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1907 – 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: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1907, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Chippewa-Falls, Wisonsin [sic] county-seat of Chippewa County 1907
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Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, 1907
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Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in 1907 was a town that had outlived the pine boom that built it. The big sawmills along the Chippewa River had cut much of the nearby white pine by the early 1900s, and the lumber trade that once drove the local economy was shrinking. Manufacturing, brewing, and railroad work were filling the gap, and residents were looking to a more varied economy. Across Wisconsin that year, the reform politics of Governor Robert M. La Follette, who had just moved on to the United States Senate, shaped public debate about railroads, taxes, and state government. A map drawn in 1907 therefore captures a town in transition, its riverfront still crowded with industry even as the forests behind it were gone.
| Created / published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, drawn in 1907. 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 | 9,616 × 6,256 px · prints to 32 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chippewa-Falls, Wisonsin [sic] county-seat of Chippewa County 1907 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491382 |
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