Foot of Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minn. – Vintage 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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Foot of Jackson Street, St. Paul, Minn.
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The Foot of Jackson Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, looks down on the Mississippi River landing where steamboats tied up to load and unload freight and passengers. Photographed around 1905 by the Detroit Publishing Company, the image shows the working waterfront that once made St. Paul a major river port. The river trade was central to the city's growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the wharves and steamboats here reflect how goods and people moved along the upper Mississippi before rail and road transport took over much of that traffic. The scene is worth studying for its record of riverfront commerce in that era.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. |
| Genre | Dry plate negatives. |
| Notes | Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30264. G 2136" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018167. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949." |
| Subjects | Piers & wharves. Steamboats. Rivers.United States--Minnesota--Saint Paul.United States--Mississippi River. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection |
| Original scan | 973 × 791 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-DET-61738 |
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