Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1873 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1873 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1873
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Minneapolis in 1873 was a young milling and lumber city on both banks of the Mississippi, where the river's fall at St. Anthony Falls supplied the power for flour and sawmills. The city had only recently absorbed the older town of St. Anthony in 1872, so the map shows two former rivals now joined under one civic government. Railroads and river barges carried wheat in and flour and lumber out, and the mills drew workers from Scandinavia, Germany, and the eastern states. That autumn the Panic of 1873 began with the collapse of Jay Cooke & Company, and the slowdown reached Minneapolis through unpaid debts, stalled construction, and falling demand for lumber.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Minneapolis, Minnesota, drawn in 1873. 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 | 5,600 × 4,400 px · prints to 19 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489297 |
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