Winona, Minnesota, 1874 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Winona, Minnesota, 1874, an antique map rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Winona, Minn
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Winona, Minnesota, 1874
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In 1874 Winona was a Mississippi River town whose fortunes rose and fell with the grain and produce farmers hauled in from the surrounding counties. The Panic of 1873 had tightened credit and slowed building, and many local merchants were still waiting for business to recover. Grasshopper swarms that devoured crops across southern Minnesota in 1873 and 1874 deepened the shortfall, leaving farm families with less to sell at the landing. Meanwhile the Winona State Normal School, which had opened in 1860 to train teachers, continued to draw students to the city. Residents would have known Winona first as a place of wharves, schoolrooms and anxious talk about wheat prices.
| Created / published | 1874 |
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| Creator | charles shober & co, ellsbury, geo. h., green, vernon, chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Winona, 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 | 9,440 × 5,936 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Winona, Minn |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489325 |
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