Red Wing, Minnesota, 1868 – 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 Red Wing, Minnesota, 1868. 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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Red Wing, Minnesota, 1868
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Red Wing, Minnesota, sat on a bluff above the Mississippi River in 1868, and its waterfront was the town's working heart. Grain from farms across southern Minnesota came down to its warehouses and mills, and flour and lumber moved out on the river toward markets downstream. Only six years earlier, the Dakota people had been forced out of Minnesota after the 1862 war, and the settlers who arrived afterward were still raising churches, schools, and shops on land that had recently changed hands. Residents would have known the town through its streets, its landing, and the boats that tied up there each season, and a view like this one recorded where they had chosen to put down roots.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Creator | robert teufel & co, ruger, a. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Red Wing, Minnesota, drawn in 1868. 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 | 8,128 × 6,432 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Redwing, Coodhue [sic] Co., Minnesota 1868 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489309 |
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