St. Paul, Minnesota, 1906 – Antique Wall Map
(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: St. Paul, Minnesota, 1906, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: St. Paul, Minn
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St. Paul, Minnesota, 1906
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St. Paul in 1906 was a state capital of more than 160,000 people, and its economy rested on wholesale trade, manufacturing, and the railroads that ran through its yards. James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway kept its headquarters in the city, so its offices and freight traffic tied St. Paul to the far Northwest. The new state capitol, finished only the year before on its hill above downtown, gave the city a monumental civic center and a source of pride. Streetcars carried workers between the river flats and the growing residential neighborhoods, while families of many European backgrounds sustained their churches, lodges, and social clubs. Residents would have known the town as the seat of state government and a near neighbor of Minneapolis across the Mississippi.
| Created / published | 1906 |
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| Creator | saint, robert m. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of St. Paul, Minnesota, drawn in 1906. 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 | 9,888 × 5,600 px · prints to 33 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | St. Paul, Minn |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489322 |
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