MN Red Wing 1868 MAP – 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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MN Red Wing 1868 MAP comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Redwing, Coodhue [sic] Co., Minnesota 1868
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MN Red Wing 1868 MAP
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This bird's-eye view shows Red Wing, a river town on the Mississippi in Goodhue County, Minnesota, as it looked in 1868, just a few years after it had grown into a busy landing for steamboats and grain shipments. Panoramic maps like this one were drawn from an imagined high vantage point, so streets, church spires, warehouses and houses appear in tilted perspective, and each building was often rendered to show its real character. The map was issued by Robert Teufel & Co., with the artist credited as A. Ruger, a well-known maker of town views in the Midwest. Such maps were sold to local residents and businesses as a point of civic pride, and today they serve as a detailed record of how a frontier river town was laid out.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | robert teufel & co, ruger, a. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,064 × 3,216 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Redwing, Coodhue [sic] Co., Minnesota 1868 |
| Reference | MN-Redwing-1868 |
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