Ironwood, Michigan, 1886 – 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 Ironwood, Michigan, 1886. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Ironwood, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886
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Ironwood, Michigan, 1886
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Ironwood, Michigan, in 1886 was a young mining town in the far western Upper Peninsula, built on the iron ore of the Gogebic Range near the Wisconsin line. Iron had been found there only in the 1870s, and by the mid-1880s rail lines had reached the range to carry ore to Lake Superior ports for shipment to the steel mills downstate and in the Midwest. Mining drew miners from Cornwall, Finland, and southern and eastern Europe, so the streets of the young town filled with families speaking many languages and building churches, stores, and boarding houses almost as fast as the mines opened. Residents in those years knew Ironwood above all as a company town of the iron trade, where the pace of the mines set the rhythm of daily life. This view records the town at the moment it was still taking its shape.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ironwood, Michigan, drawn in 1886. 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--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 6,064 × 3,808 px · prints to 20 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ironwood, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489197 |
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