Boscobel, Wisconsin, 1869 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Boscobel, Wisconsin, 1869. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Boscobel, Grant Co., Wisconsin 1869
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Boscobel, Wisconsin, 1869
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Boscobel, a river town in Grant County in southwestern Wisconsin, stood in 1869 within a region whose economy rested on lead mining, grain and dairy farming, and timber moving down the Wisconsin River. Its streets ran between the river and the bluffs behind it, and the shops along its main street served farmers who drove in from the surrounding townships to sell wheat and buy supplies. Wisconsin was still recovering from the Civil War in these years, and immigrant families from Germany, Norway and elsewhere were clearing land and settling nearby, so local prosperity was tied closely to the harvest and the spring river season. To residents, Boscobel was a market and landing for the valley, a modest place next to the lead-mining towns of Platteville and Mineral Point.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boscobel, Wisconsin, drawn in 1869. 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 | 7,496 × 6,552 px · prints to 25 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Boscobel, Grant Co., Wisconsin 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491380 |
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