Watertown, Wisconsin, 1867 – 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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Watertown, Wisconsin, 1867 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin 1867
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Watertown, Wisconsin, 1867
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Watertown, Wisconsin, sat on the Rock River in Jefferson County in 1867, two years after the Civil War ended and a few years into a period of steady growth. Its river supplied water power for mills and shops, and farms around the town sent grain and livestock to market. A large share of the residents were German immigrants and their children, who brought their language, churches, schools, and social clubs into daily life. The town's streets, mills, and church spires in the map show a community still building out after the war, when many people would have known Watertown first as a river town and a center of local trade.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Watertown, 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 | 9,000 × 6,960 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491420 |
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