Minnesota Scenes, Minnesota, 1874 – 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.)
Description
A window into the past: Minnesota Scenes, Minnesota, 1874, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Minnesota Scenes, Minnesota, 1874
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Minnesota in 1874 was a young state, admitted in 1858, whose economy rested on wheat, lumber, and the river trade. At St. Anthony Falls, the milling district of Minneapolis was turning Dakota and Minnesota wheat into flour, and the state's sawmills and steamboat landings tied its towns to markets downriver. That same year, swarms of Rocky Mountain locusts, which farmers called grasshoppers, were stripping fields across the state, and the Panic of 1873 had stalled railroad construction and left many merchants short of credit. Residents of the period would have known Minnesota as a land of rapid growth, hard winters, and farms still struggling to recover from the plague.
| Created / published | 1874 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Minnesota Scenes, Minnesota, drawn in 1874. 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 |
| Original scan | 3,752 × 4,496 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489303 |
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