Minneapolis, 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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A window into the past: Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1874, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Minneapolis, Minn
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1874
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Minneapolis in 1874 was still known across the upper Midwest as the Flour City, and its mills on the Mississippi were the reason it had grown so fast. That summer, swarms of Rocky Mountain locusts, often called grasshoppers, moved east across Minnesota and stripped fields of wheat and corn, hitting farms hardest in the southwestern counties. The losses meant less grain reached the city's mills, so millers and grain dealers in Minneapolis felt the shortage on their own books. Residents who lived through that season remembered the plague as the worst agricultural disaster of their young state, and it shaped how many of them thought about the land and the markets that depended on it.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Minneapolis, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,584 × 2,880 px · prints to 15 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Minneapolis, Minn |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489298 |
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