Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1898 – 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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This rare antique map captures Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1898 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of Milwaukee, Wis. Taken from City Hall tower
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1898
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In 1898 Milwaukee was a rail and manufacturing city, with the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, known locally as the Milwaukee Road, headquartered there and its lines running west across the Upper Midwest. Machine shops and foundries, including the Edward P. Allis works on the south side, turned out steam engines and mill machinery sold to farms, mines and factories across the region. The city was growing fast toward a population near 300,000 by 1900, and its new City Hall, with a tall clock tower, anchored the downtown grid. Residents knew Milwaukee as a place of smokestacks and freight yards, with the lakefront docks still busy with grain and lumber beside them.
| Created / published | 1898 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawn in 1898. 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 | 7,778 × 2,628 px · prints to 26 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of Milwaukee, Wis. Taken from City Hall tower |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491400 |
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