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This particular copy is the most complete late-1874 printing, its topography fuller than earlier editions of the same atlas, electrotyped at the Franklin Type Foundry in Cincinnati and bound in quarter leather with gilt-stamped boards. Wisconsin's own economy had shifted substantially since its territorial days alongside Iowa in the 1830s: its lumber industry was now booming in the northern forests to feed the building demands of Chicago and the rest of the growing Midwest, and the dense rail network shown on this map reflects a state that had matured from raw frontier into an established agricultural and timber power in barely a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe map uses two prime meridians simultaneously, Greenwich and Washington, reflecting a transitional moment in American cartography before Greenwich alone became the standard reference point. 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Johnston of Edinburgh, part of their Atlas of the United States of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica. This printing shows each state in its own outline color, Michigan in pink, Wisconsin in green, and Iowa in orange, with proposed Pacific Railway routes marked in purple. The sheet maps all three states jointly, a British-published perspective on the American Midwest drawn up by an American geologist working with Scottish engravers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three states' outlines are distinctly colored across the sheet, a settlement pattern still concentrated toward each state's eastern or southern counties in the mid-1850s. The proposed Pacific Railway routes marked in purple capture a transcontinental rail line that existed only on paper in 1857, years before any such route was actually built. 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This printing comes from the atlas's rare original run, mapping a state whose economy, built on timber and dairy farming, was still taking shape more than a decade after the Civil War's end, three decades after Wisconsin itself had first entered the Union. Wisconsin appears here with its southern and eastern counties densely surveyed into townships while settlement thinned noticeably toward the more heavily forested north.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMadison anchors the map as the state capital, positioned between four lakes near the state's southern border. Milwaukee appears on Lake Michigan as Wisconsin's principal port and commercial center, its harbor linking the state's farm and timber trade to the wider Great Lakes shipping network. Green Bay sits to the north as a smaller but strategically placed harbor town, the gateway through which the state's northern timber trade increasingly moved. 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This sheet, numbered Sheet V in its series, appeared only two years after Wisconsin's admission to the Union, and it records county boundaries still in a genuinely primitive state, particularly across the western half of the state, where organized government had barely begun to catch up with settlement. The map covers towns, rivers, roads, bridges, lakes, post offices and court houses in dense, methodical detail characteristic of the Society's house style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMilwaukee anchors Wisconsin's Lake Michigan shore as its largest and fastest-growing city, while Madison, chosen as state capital for its central location rather than its size, sits inland among the state's lake-studded interior. Green Bay marks the historic fur-trading gateway at the mouth of the Fox River, a route that had linked the Great Lakes to the Mississippi since the French colonial era. 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The younger Mitchell had taken over the business in 1860 and issued his own New General Atlas that year, distinguishing his output from his father's earlier works while maintaining the firm's reputation for clear, reliably updated county-level cartography. This sheet is colored by county and finished with a decorative floral border typical of Mitchell's mid-1860s house style, and it records both states barely two years removed from the end of the Civil War, a period of renewed railroad building and westward settlement across the Great Lakes region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetroit and Lansing anchor Michigan's Lower Peninsula, the latter having served as the state capital since 1847 for its central, more defensible location. Grand Rapids and Saginaw mark the state's western and northern centers of milling and lumbering. Across the lake, Milwaukee dominates Wisconsin's shoreline as its commercial capital, while Madison continues to serve as the state's seat of government, and Green Bay anchors the historic Fox River trade route into the interior. The map carefully distinguishes early operating railroads from merely proposed lines, a network still expanding rapidly through both states, and it marks the reduced but still substantial Indian region persisting in Wisconsin's northern reaches at this date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis postwar county map makes a fitting gift for a Michigan or Wisconsin family with roots in the era's railroad and lumber boom, or for a collector rounding out a run of Mitchell family atlas maps. 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The sheet is framed within a decorative floral border typical of Mitchell's finest state maps and hand colored county by county, distinguishing existing organized counties from the still-unorganized Indian region shown across the northern reaches of both states. The map arrives at a pivotal census year, on the very eve of the Civil War, when both states' interiors were only just being opened by a rapidly expanding but still incomplete network of existing and proposed railroads pushing north from the Great Lakes shoreline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDetroit, Michigan's largest city and the historic gateway to the Great Lakes fur trade, anchors the map's eastern edge along the Detroit River. Madison, chosen as Wisconsin's capital in 1836 for its position between four lakes, sits inland amid the network of roads and rail lines the map traces converging on the growing state government seat. Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city and busiest Lake Michigan port, appears as the terminus of several of the proposed railroads the sheet marks alongside those already completed. Across the northern portions of both states, the map's Indian region designation marks land not yet opened to settlement, a reminder of how recently much of the Upper Great Lakes interior had been surveyed at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map suits a Michigan or Wisconsin family, a Detroit or Milwaukee transplant, or a collector interested in the Great Lakes states on the eve of the Civil War. Its first-state status and decorative floral border make it a particularly desirable example of Mitchell's early New General Atlas work. 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