MN Minneapolis 1879 MAP – 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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This antique map of MN Minneapolis 1879 MAP brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1879
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MN Minneapolis 1879 MAP
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Drawn from an elevated oblique angle, this 1879 panoramic map shows Minneapolis as a dense grid of streets, churches, and commercial blocks along the Mississippi, with the falls at St. Anthony as the city's industrial heart. Albert Ruger drew the view, and the firm of Beck & Pauli printed it as a lithograph for the publisher J. J. Stoner, whose company issued many such city views in the late 1870s and 1880s. By then Minneapolis was the country's leading flour-milling center, and the falls powered the mills that gave the city its nickname, "Mill City." Maps like this one were both promotional and practical, and they record the layout of a booming city at a moment of rapid growth.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Creator | ruger, a., beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,176 × 3,256 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1879 |
| Reference | MN-Minneapolis-1879 |
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