Montevideo, Minnesota, 1874 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Montevideo, Minnesota, 1874. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Montevideo, Minnesota, 1874
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Montevideo, Minnesota, in 1874 was a young railroad town on the Minnesota River in Chippewa County, only a few years past its founding. The arrival of the railroad in the early 1870s opened the surrounding prairie to wheat farmers and drew grain buyers, lumber dealers, and merchants to its streets. That decade brought the grasshopper invasions that swept Minnesota from 1873 through 1877, destroying crops and leaving many families dependent on credit from town storekeepers. Residents knew Montevideo as a farm trading center, where grain elevators, stores, and churches clustered near the depot and settlers arrived by wagon from the countryside.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Montevideo, 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 | 3,808 × 4,480 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489304 |
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