Madison, Wisconsin, 1867 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Madison, Wisconsin, 1867, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Madison, Wisconsin 1867
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Madison, Wisconsin, 1867
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Madison, Wisconsin, in 1867 was a young state capital sitting on an isthmus between Lake Mendota and Lake Monona. The state had joined the Union in 1848, and the capitol, the university, and the courthouse made the town a center of government and learning more than of heavy industry. Railroads had reached the city in the 1850s, linking it to Milwaukee and the farm country to the south, and that connection shaped its trade in grain, livestock, and goods. German and Norwegian immigrants were settling across the surrounding counties, and many of them came into town to buy, sell, and worship. Residents who lived there in 1867 would have known the place first as the seat of state politics, with the lakes and the capitol dome as its most familiar landmarks.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Madison, 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 | 8,864 × 6,819 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Madison, Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491394 |
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