Northfield, Minnesota, 1869 – 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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Northfield, Minnesota, 1869 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota 1869
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Northfield, Minnesota, 1869
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Northfield, Minnesota, in 1869 was a young river town in the Cannon River valley, barely fifteen years removed from its founding in the mid-1850s. Its growth rested on flour and lumber milling at the river's falls and on the wheat farming that spread across the surrounding prairie. The railroad reached the town in 1867, linking local grain and goods to Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Chicago markets. Carleton College had been chartered in 1866 and was preparing to open its doors, giving the town an educational identity beyond the mill yards and grain warehouses.
| Created / published | 1869 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Northfield, Minnesota, drawn in 1869. 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 | 7,008 × 5,680 px · prints to 23 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota 1869 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489306 |
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