Brainerd, Minnesota, 1914 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Brainerd, Minnesota, 1914 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Brainerd, "City of Mines."
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Brainerd, Minnesota, 1914
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Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1914 was a railroad and lumber town on the Mississippi River in Crow Wing County. The Northern Pacific Railway had founded it in the early 1870s and kept major shops and a division point there, so rail work set the rhythm of daily life. Lumber and the pine trade had built much of the local economy, and by the 1910s the nearby Cuyuna Iron Range was drawing mining supplies and workers through the town. The map shows the streets, depots, mills, and churches that residents of that period would have recognized as their own community, at a time when Brainerd was a growing regional center of the northern Minnesota woods.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | brainerd townsite company, duluth photo-engraving co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brainerd, Minnesota, drawn in 1914. 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 | 8,512 × 6,400 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Brainerd, "City of Mines." |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489288 |
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