Hastings, Minnesota, 1867 – 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 Hastings, Minnesota, 1867. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Hastings, Dakota Co., Minnesota 1867
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Hastings, Minnesota, 1867
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Hastings, Minnesota, in 1867 was a river town where the Vermillion River drops toward the Mississippi, and its mills drew power from that falling water. Wheat from the surrounding prairie farms, which had grown fast since Minnesota became a state in 1858, was ground locally and carried downriver, and steamboats worked the landing below the bluffs. As the seat of Dakota County, Hastings also drew lawyers, merchants, and farmers to its county offices on business. Residents would have known the town as a busy stop on the upper river trade. This view records its mills, landing, and streets as they stood that year.
| Created / published | 1867 |
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| Creator | ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hastings, 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 | 8,352 × 6,518 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Hastings, Dakota Co., Minnesota 1867 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489292 |
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