Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1885 – 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 Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1885 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1885
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Minneapolis in 1885 was the largest flour-milling center in the country, with the Mississippi's falls below the Stone Arch Bridge still turning wheat into flour for national and export markets. The Stone Arch Bridge, completed in 1883 for James J. Hill's railroad, tied the city's mill district to rail lines running west toward the Dakota wheat fields. Grain elevators and rail yards crowded the riverfront, and the city's population drew heavily on Scandinavian and German immigrants who worked in the mills and sawmills. Residents of the day would have known Minneapolis as a city of mills and bridges, rapidly filling the grid of streets east and west of the river.
| Created / published | 1885 |
|---|---|
| Creator | herancourt, w. v., monasch, i. (isador) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Minneapolis, Minnesota, drawn in 1885. 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 | 13,104 × 9,408 px · prints to 44 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489300 |
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