New Ulm, Minnesota, 1870 – 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.)
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New Ulm, Minnesota, 1870 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota 1870
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New Ulm, Minnesota, 1870
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New Ulm, on the Minnesota River in south-central Minnesota, was a German-speaking town in 1870, settled from the mid-1850s by immigrants who had arranged their land through a company organized in Chicago. In August 1862, during the U.S.-Dakota War, Dakota warriors attacked the town and much of its business district burned, and residents rebuilt on the same streets. By 1870 the local economy rested on farm trade, milling, and brewing, and August Schell's brewery had been operating since 1860. German clubs, churches, and the Turnverein gymnastic society shaped social life, and civic business was often conducted in German. The map captures the rebuilt town before the railroad reached it.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | ruger & stoner, ruger, a., chicago lithographing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of New Ulm, 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 | 6,384 × 5,136 px · prints to 21 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of New Ulm, Brown County, Minnesota 1870 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489305 |
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