WI Washburn 1886 MAP – 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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WI Washburn 1886 MAP comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County 1886
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WI Washburn 1886 MAP
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Washburn, on Chequamegon Bay in Wisconsin's Lake Superior country, was named for Cadwallader C. Washburn, a former Wisconsin governor with extensive lumber and milling interests. This 1886 panoramic map, produced by the Milwaukee lithographers Norris, Wellge & Co. and Beck & Pauli, shows the young town during the regional timber boom, when sawmills, docks and railroads moved northern forests toward the lake for shipment. Maps of this kind were drawn from an elevated, angled viewpoint, so each street, dock and building appears in careful detail, making them useful records of how small Midwestern towns were laid out in the 1880s.
| Created / published | 1886 |
|---|---|
| Creator | norris, wellge & co, beck & pauli |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,586 × 3,338 px · prints to 15 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County 1886 |
| Reference | WI-Washburn-1886 |
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