River Falls, Wisconsin, 1880 – Antique Map Print
(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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River Falls, Wisconsin, 1880 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 River Falls, Pierce County, Wisconsin, 1880
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River Falls, Wisconsin, 1880
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River Falls in 1880 was a small town in Pierce County, western Wisconsin, built around the falls of the Kinnickinnic River, where the drop in water had long turned the wheels of sawmills and grist mills. Lumber cut upriver fed those mills, while local farm grain moved out to market by wagon and, after the railroads reached the region, by rail. The state normal school, which opened in 1875 to train teachers, gave the town a second identity beside its industry, and students and faculty became a regular presence on its streets. Residents would have known River Falls as a mill town with a teachers' school, a place where the river still set the pace of work.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of River Falls, Wisconsin, drawn in 1880. 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 | 6,220 × 4,479 px · prints to 21 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of River Falls, Pierce County, Wisconsin, 1880 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491412 |
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