Berlin, Wisconsin, 1867 – 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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A window into the past: Berlin, Wisconsin, 1867, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Berlin, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin 1867
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Berlin, Wisconsin, 1867
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Berlin, Wisconsin, in 1867 was a small Fox River town in Green Lake County, settled in the 1840s largely by German immigrants who gave it their name and much of its character. Two years after the Civil War ended, daily life revolved around farming the surrounding land and the water power of the river, which turned the mill wheels serving the county's farms. German was widely spoken in homes, churches, and schools, and the congregations and societies that German settlers built anchored social life. Like many interior Wisconsin towns, Berlin relied on wagon roads to reach distant markets. The streets, churches, and mill buildings shown here were the landmarks residents knew as home.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Berlin, Wisconsin, drawn in 1867. 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 | 7,984 × 6,080 px · prints to 27 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Berlin, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491379 |
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