Superior, Wisconsin, 1913 – 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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This antique map of Superior, Wisconsin, 1913 brings a moment of history to your wall. 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 Superior, Wisconsin "the New Steel Center."
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Superior, Wisconsin, 1913
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Superior, Wisconsin, in 1913 was a city of roughly 40,000 people at the western end of Lake Superior, and its economy was shifting from the pine that first built it toward the iron ore, coal, and grain moving through its harbor. Lake freighters and rail cars carried ore from the Mesabi Range and coal bound for inland markets, so the docks and coal pockets along the bay were central to daily work. Civic life was also taking shape, with the State Normal School, founded in 1896, training teachers for Wisconsin classrooms. Residents would have known Superior as a shipping city that shared its harbor with Duluth and measured its progress by the tonnage passing through the bay each season.
| Created / published | 1913 |
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| Creator | bureau of engraving, inc. (minneapolis, minn.), bradley-brink co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Superior, Wisconsin, drawn in 1913. 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 | 8,416 × 6,224 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view Superior, Wisconsin "the New Steel Center." |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491417 |
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