La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1873 – Antique Wall Map
(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 La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1873, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: La Crosse, Wis. 1873
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La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1873
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In 1873 La Crosse was a Mississippi river town that had grown fast on its sawmills and its position as a rail junction, and its merchants expected more of the same. Brick and frame houses were climbing the bluffs, and the city's business leaders had little reason to doubt that the boom would continue. That confidence broke in September, when the Panic of 1873 brought bank failures across the country and stopped lumber orders and new building almost overnight. Farmers in the surrounding counties, many of them wheat growers who sent their crops through the town, were also joining the Grange movement, which pushed back against the high freight rates charged by the railroads.
| Created / published | 1873 |
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| Creator | milwaukee lith. & engr. co, ellsbury, geo. h. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of La Crosse, Wisconsin, drawn in 1873. 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 | 7,384 × 4,656 px · prints to 25 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | La Crosse, Wis. 1873 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491392 |
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