Beaver Dam, 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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Step back in time with Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 1867, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wisconsin 1867
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Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 1867
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Beaver Dam, a river town in Dodge County, Wisconsin, was two years past the end of the Civil War in 1867. Its economy rested on water-powered mills along the Beaver Dam River and on the grain and farm trade drawn from the surrounding countryside. The railroad that had reached the town in the 1850s tied its shipments to Milwaukee and the wider lake markets. Returning veterans went back to work in shops, stores, and mills, while immigrant settlers, many of them from Germany, joined Yankee neighbors in building churches and schools. Residents in 1867 would have known Beaver Dam as a mill town on the rise.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Beaver Dam, 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 | 8,176 × 7,008 px · prints to 27 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491377 |
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