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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee in 1853
| Bird's-eye view of Milwaukee in 1853 details building features and city layout from southwest. Important buildings are numbered in a silhouette drawing below the image, with copy identifying each building by use and location in both 1853 and 1937. By 1937 street names had changed, several buildings had been moved, and building use may have changed. |
| Image ID: | 23337 |
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| Creation Date: | 1937 |
| Creator Name: | Robertson, Geo. J. |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Map Collection |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | D GX9029 M663 1853 S |
| Original Dimensions: | 36 x 22 inches |
| Taken from an engraving produced in 1853, this was printed in the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1937 in commemoration of the paper's 100th year of publication. The original engraving was made only 7 years after Milwaukee became a city, and 5 years after Wisconsin became a state. The population of Milwaukee was 25,000 at the time. See Image IDs: 6554 and 23336 for other versions of this image. See Image ID: 47547 for black and white copy negative by Joseph Brown of original bird's-eye view. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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