St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: St. Paul, Minn. : ice palace and winter carnival souvenir
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1888
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St. Paul in 1888 had grown into a city of well over 100,000 people, and its streets, warehouses, and church spires show a place that had long outgrown its riverfront landing. Wholesale trade, manufacturing, and the rail connections that fed them were the basis of its economy, while the city's population drew heavily on German, Irish, Scandinavian, and other immigrant communities. Summit Avenue was becoming the city's most fashionable residential boulevard, where prosperous merchants and professionals built large homes above the river flats. Residents of the period knew St. Paul as the twin of Minneapolis across the river, a rivalry that shaped civic pride and competition for trade on both banks. The map records these streets as they stood at the close of the 1880s, before the city's next wave of growth.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Creator | marr & richards engraving co, baker, collins & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Paul, Minnesota, drawn in 1888. 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 | 9,040 × 5,392 px · prints to 30 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Paul, Minn. : ice palace and winter carnival souvenir |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489320 |
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