Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1870 – 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 Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1870, an antique map rich in period detail. 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 Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870
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Sauk City, Wisconsin, 1870
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Sauk City, on the Wisconsin River in Sauk County, was a farming and river town in 1870, about two decades after Wisconsin became a state in 1848. Many of its residents had come from German-speaking lands, and German language, churches, and social clubs shaped daily life along its streets. The river carried logs and rafts downstream toward sawmills and markets to the south, while the surrounding farms supplied grain and produce to local merchants and shippers. Residents who looked at a view like this would have known the village chiefly for its river landings, its German community, and its place as a trading center for the surrounding county.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sauk City, Wisconsin, drawn in 1870. 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 | 6,304 × 4,912 px · prints to 21 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491413 |
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