Appleton, 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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Step back in time with Appleton, 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: Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin 1867
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Appleton, Wisconsin, 1867
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Appleton, Wisconsin, in 1867 was a small river city of lumber, grain, and early paper-making on the Fox River, not yet the paper center it would become. The river's falls supplied power for the mills along its banks, and the Fox River locks had linked the town by water to Green Bay and to the Wisconsin River system. Lawrence University, which had moved to Appleton from its original site a few years earlier, gave the town a college that shaped its civic and church life. Only about two years had passed since the end of the Civil War, so many residents had relatives who had served in Wisconsin regiments, and the town was rebuilding its ordinary routines of trade, schooling, and worship. The street-by-street detail on this view shows the town as local people of the time would have known it.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Appleton, 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 | 8,936 × 6,784 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491373 |
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