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Digital Image: 1888 Wellge Bird's-Eye View Map of Hot Springs, Arkansas
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Hot Springs, Ark.
1888 (undated) 16.25 x 27 in (41.275 x 68.58 cm)
1888 (undated) 16.25 x 27 in (41.275 x 68.58 cm)
Description
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Cartographer S
Henry Wellge (1850 – 1923) was an American panoramic bird's-eye view publisher, artist, and cartographer active in Milwaukee in the late 19th and early 20th century. Wellge was born in Germany in 1850. His first view, in 1878, was of Chilton Wisconsin, but most of his early work is in association with J. J. Stoner, another prolific view maker. Eventually established his own firm Henry Wellge and Company. Later his published and Norris, Wellge and Company. Ultimately though, most of his work appears under the imprint of the American Publishing Company. He continued to publish views until about 1910 with about 152 views bearing his imprint. Wellge is known for large dramatic views illustrated with emphasis on the horizontal dimension. More by this mapmaker...
Beck and Pauli (fl. c. 1878 – 1889) was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin based lithography firm founded in 1878 by Clemens J. Pauli and Adam Beck. The firm published hundreds of lithograph city views for many of the most prominent viewmakers of the period, including Lucien Rinaldo Burleigh, J. J. Stoner, Henry Wellge, Pauli himself, and others. The company was most active in the mid-1880 until about 1889, when the partners went separate ways and closed the company. Learn More...
References
Reps, John, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America (University of Missouri, Columbia, 1984), #24. Library of Congress, G4004.H6A3 1888 .W4.