1872Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milwaukee, Wis.

H. H. Bailey; Milwaukee Lithographing & Engraving Co.

Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph

What this plate shows

Milwaukee drawn from over the lake: the river mouths, grain elevators, a packed downtown, the grid running inland. Bailey’s 1872 bird’s-eye. A Great Lakes city that is not Chicago, Duluth, or the Twin Cities. Lithograph, not a photograph.

Image type: Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 76693067. Direct scale of that raster. Not a redraw.
License: Public domain.

Collections where this plate appears

01U.S. bird’s-eye viewsGiant lithographs from an imagined high point. Not photographs. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Denver — as print shops sold them. Later sheets stay later. Added beside those, not in place of them: Annapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Louisville, Seattle, Leadville, Pittsburgh.