St. Paul, Minnesota, 1874 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique map of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1874 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: [View of St. Paul, Minnesota
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1874
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St. Paul in 1874 was a river city that had grown past its frontier beginnings and was settling into a more permanent shape. Wholesale houses and warehouses in the Lowertown district near the levee handled goods shipped by steamboat and, increasingly, by rail, and the streets around them filled with clerks, teamsters, and dock hands. Brick commercial blocks were replacing the wooden storefronts of earlier years, and the city was beginning to look more like a regional center than a landing. Residents who knew the place would have thought of it as the seat of state government, a home to the Minnesota Historical Society, and a town where the river still set the rhythm of daily business.
| Created / published | 1874 |
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| Creator | ellsbury, geo. h., green, vernon |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Paul, Minnesota, drawn in 1874. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Minnesota |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,408 × 4,912 px · prints to 31 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [View of St. Paul, Minnesota |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489318 |
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