St. Paul, Minnesota, 1853 – 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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This rare antique map captures St. Paul, Minnesota, 1853 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: City of St. Paul, capital of Minnesota
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1853
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St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1853 was a river town of a few thousand people, sitting at the head of steamboat navigation on the upper Mississippi. Its landing drew cargo and settlers up from St. Louis and Galena, and the town served as the capital of Minnesota Territory, which had been organized in 1849. The 1851 treaties with the Dakota people opened large areas of southern and western Minnesota to settlement, so the town was filling with merchants, land agents, and newcomers who saw it as the gateway to the new farmlands. Lumber, flour, and the goods that moved through the landing kept its streets busy, and the young city was still a frontier place where wooden storefronts stood close to the river and the bluffs.
| Created / published | 1853 |
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| Creator | ritchie, thompson, queen, jas. (james), strobel, max |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Paul, Minnesota, drawn in 1853. 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 | 6,608 × 4,832 px · prints to 22 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | City of St. Paul, capital of Minnesota |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489315 |
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