62 ANTIQUE OLD GENEALOGY RARE MAPS OF WISCONSIN WI CD

The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are non photographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.

 

 

Victorian America's panoramic maps differ dramatically from the Renaissance city perspectives. The post-Civil War town views are more accurate and are drawn from a higher oblique angle. Small towns as well as major urban centers were portrayed. Panoramic mapping of urban centers was unique to North America in this era. Most panoramic maps were published independently, not as plates in an atlas or in a descriptive geographical book. Preparation and sale of nineteenth-century panoramas were motivated by civic pride and the desire of the city fathers to encourage commercial growth. Many views were prepared for and endorsed by chambers of commerce and other civic organizations and were used as advertisements of a city's commercial and residential potential.

 

Panoramic maps graphically depict the vibrant life of a city. Harbors are shown choked with ships, often to the extent of constituting hazards to navigation. Trains speed along railroad tracks, at times on the same roadbed with locomotives and cars headed in the opposite direction. People and horse drawn carriages fill the streets, and smoke belches from the stacks of industrial plants. Urban and industrial development in post-Civil War America is vividly portrayed in the maps.

Here is a complete list of the cities included in this collection

In order to view these high resolution maps on any PC a small software installation (included) of a professional program is necessary, this program will allow you to Zoom in for highly detailed browsing of maps. (streets, carriages, people, and lots of other bustling little city details. Literally hours of intricate details to be rendered and revealed.) View with microscope or telescope tools for closer examination. Copy and paste maps to any image editor, export as a .tiff, measure maps assigning centimeters, inches, yards, feet, miles or kilometers. Print your maps out for framing makes a exquisite addition to any home or office gallery.

 

Powerful and Revealing Zoom in properties and features.

A bird's eye view of the city of Antigo, Wisconsin 1886 map dimensions 32 x 58 cm
Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 51 x 71 cm
Ashland, Wisconsin 1886 map dimensions 37 x 90 cm
Ashland, Lake Superior, Wis. 1890 map dimensions 49 x 103 cm
Bayfield, Wisconsin 1886 map dimensions 32 x 52 cm
Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wisconsin 1867   map dimensions 53 x 62 cm
Perspective map of Beloit, Wis. 1890 map dimensions 38 x 71 cm
Berlin, Green Lake Co., Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 46 x 62 cm
Boscobel, Grant Co., Wisconsin 1869 map dimensions 46 x 57 cm
Chippewa-Falls, Wisconsin 1886 map dimensions 46 x 68 cm
Chippewa-Falls, Wisonsin 1907 map dimensions 37 x 77 cm
Columbus, Columbia Co., Wisconsin 1868 map dimensions 43 x 61 cm
Delavan, Walworth Co., Wisconsin 1884 map dimensions 31 x 70 cm
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 51 x 72 cm
Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 38 x 72 cm
Green Bay & Fort Howard Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 50 x 71 cm
Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 49 x 59 cm
Hurley, Wis., Ashland County 1886 map dimensions 24 x 47 cm
Jefferson, Jefferson County, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 49 x 58 cm
La Crosse, Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 54 x 72 cm
La Crosse, Wisconsin 1873 map dimensions 31 x 58 cm
La Crosse, Wisconsin 1887 map dimensions 42 x 102 cm
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin 1882 map dimensions 43 x 77 cm
Madison, Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 54 x 72 cm
Madison, Wisconsin 1885 map dimensions 47 x 79 cm
Madison, Wisconsin 1885 map dimensions 47 x 80 cm
Medford, Wisconsin 1885 map dimensions 23 x 47 cm
Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. 1886 map dimensions 22 x 47 cm
Merrill, Wis. county seat Lincoln Co. 1883 map dimensions 27 x 78 cm
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1854 map dimensions 69.5 x 103 cm
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1872 map dimensions 59 x 97 cm
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1879 map dimensions 59 x 99 cm
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1882 map dimensions 46 x 72 cm
Milwaukee, Wis. from City Hall tower 1889 map dimensions 37 x 120 cm
Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee 1906 map dimensions 26 x 49 cm
Oconomowoc, Wis. Waukesha County 1885 map dimensions 41 x 77 cm
Oconomowoc, Waukesha Wisconsin 1890 map dimensions 40 x 87 cm
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1850 map dimensions 42 x 60 cm
Oshkosh, Winebago Co., Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 82 x 72 cm
Bird's eye view Peshtigo, Wisconsin 1871 map dimensions 31 x 41 cm
Portage, Columbia Co., Wisconsin 1868 map dimensions 56 x 71 cm
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 45 x 60 cm
Prairie du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 33 x 43 cm
Racine, Wisconsin 1883 map dimensions 49 x 86 cm
Reedsburg, Sauk County, Wis. 1874 map dimensions 31 x 42 cm
Ripon, Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 49 x 61 cm
River Falls, Pierce County, Wisconsin, 1880 map dimensions 31 x 51 cm
Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin 1870 map dimensions 31 x 46 cm
Sheboygan City, Wisconsin 1885 map dimensions 46 x 78 cm
Superior, Wisconsin 1883 map dimensions 27 x 80 cm
Perspective of Superior, Wisconsin 1890 map dimensions 27 x 52 cm
Superior, Wisconsin 1913 map dimensions 48 x 69 cm
Superior, Wisconsin, Duluth, Minnesota 1915 map dimensions 36 x 91cm
Washburn, Wis. Bayfield County 1886 map dimensions 33 x 53 cm
Watertown, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin 1867 map dimensions 52 x 72 cm
Watertown, Wisconsin 1885 map dimensions 50 x 80 cm
Waukesha, Wisconsin 1857 map dimensions 42 x 62 cm
Waukesha, c.s. of Waukesha Co., Wis. 1880 map dimensions 39 x 66 cm
Waupun, Wisconsin. 1885 map dimensions 36 x 62 cm
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin 1892 map dimensions 42 x 72 cm
Perspective map of West Superior, Wis 1887 map dimensions 39 x 55 cm
Whitewater, Wis. Walworth-County 1855 map dimensions 40 x 78 cm

 

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Panoramic maps give a pictorial record of Anglo-America's cities during the post-Civil War period and for many localities provide the sole nineteenth-century map. No other graphic form of this era so effectively captured the vitality of America's urban centers.

 

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