Superior, Wisconsin, 1883 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Superior, Wisconsin, 1883. 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 Superior, Wis. county seat of Douglas county 1883
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Superior, Wisconsin, 1883
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Superior, Wisconsin, in 1883 sat at the western tip of Lake Superior, where the town's harbor served as a shipping point for the region's timber, grain, and iron. The Northern Pacific Railway had reached the lakefront in 1870, making Superior a rail terminus, and its grain elevators and sawmills drew workers from Scandinavia, Germany, and Canada. Across the bay, Duluth was growing as a rival port, and the two towns competed for rail traffic, shipping contracts, and investment. Residents of the period would have known Superior as a raw, expanding lake town, still building its streets, churches, and public institutions while its fortunes rose and fell with the lumber and shipping trade.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Superior, Wisconsin, drawn in 1883. 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 | 9,968 × 3,840 px · prints to 33 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Superior, Wis. county seat of Douglas county 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491415 |
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