Saint Peter, Minnesota, 1870 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Saint Peter, Minnesota, 1870, an antique map rich in period detail. 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 Saint Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota 1870
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Saint Peter, Minnesota, 1870
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Saint Peter, the seat of Nicollet County, stood on bluffs above the Minnesota River in 1870. The town had been part of the territory's early story, since the first territorial legislature met there in 1849 before the capital moved north to St. Paul. The 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, which opened much of southern Minnesota to settlement, was signed nearby, and by 1870 the surrounding farms were sending grain and produce to town for sale. The state hospital for the insane, opened in 1866, gave the town a public institution that drew staff and families. This 1870 view shows a community still young, with its streets and buildings newly laid out.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., merchant's lithographing company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Saint Peter, Minnesota, drawn in 1870. 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 | 7,112 × 5,808 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Saint Peter, Nicollet County, Minnesota 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489313 |
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