Preston, Minnesota, 1874 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Preston, Minnesota, 1874. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Preston, Minnesota, 1874
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Preston, the seat of Fillmore County in southeastern Minnesota, was a small market town in 1874, set in the bluff country along the Root River. Like much of the state, its fortunes depended on farming, and the surrounding counties had only recently shifted from wheat toward a mix of grain, livestock, and dairy. That year the region was hit hard by the Rocky Mountain locust, whose swarms stripped fields across Minnesota from 1873 into the later 1870s, while the national Panic of 1873 had tightened credit for farmers and merchants alike. Townspeople would have known Preston as the place where county business was done, where the courthouse, churches, and stores stood close together, and where farm families came to sell their crops and buy supplies.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Preston, 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 |
| Original scan | 3,872 × 4,536 px · prints to 13 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489308 |
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