Duluth, Minnesota, 1883 – 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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Step back in time with Duluth, Minnesota, 1883, 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: View of Duluth, Minn. 1883
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Duluth, Minnesota, 1883
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Duluth in 1883 was a lumber and shipping town of several thousand people, climbing the hillside above the western end of Lake Superior. That September the Northern Pacific completed its line to the Pacific at Gold Creek in Montana Territory, a goal that had stalled after Jay Cooke's banking house failed in 1873. As the lake terminus, Duluth gained a direct rail route for grain and freight bound for eastern markets. Sawmills along the bay and the harbor's loading docks kept many men at work, and local merchants and newspapers began to present the lake port as a gateway to the Northwest. The streets were still rough and the hills still steep, and residents would have known the town as a rail and lumber place still waiting for the harbor to pay off years of expectation.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Duluth, Minnesota, drawn in 1883. 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 | 12,992 × 5,360 px · prints to 43 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Duluth, Minn. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489289 |
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