St. Paul, Minnesota, 1867 – Antique Wall Map
(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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A window into the past: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1867, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Saint Paul, Minnesota 1867
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1867
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St. Paul in 1867 was the capital of a state that had entered the Union only nine years earlier, and it had grown well beyond the small river town of the early 1850s. Railroads had begun to reshape its trade, with the St. Paul and Pacific line carrying wheat and other produce from the farms of the surrounding valleys toward the levees. Across the river, St. Anthony Falls powered sawmills and flour mills, tying the two communities into one of the busiest milling districts in the Upper Midwest. The state legislature and the city's merchants argued over the growing demands of commerce, while churches, schools, and German and Irish neighborhoods filled the streets. Residents of the period knew their town as the head of the river trade and the gateway to Minnesota's grain country.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Paul, Minnesota, drawn in 1867. 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 | 8,736 × 6,832 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Saint Paul, Minnesota 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489316 |
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