{"product_id":"minnesota-map-1878-railroad-print-st-paul-minneapolis-duluth","title":"Minnesota Map 1878 Railroad Print - St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Franklin Cram published this Rail Road and Township Map of Minnesota in 1878, part of his Standard American Atlas of the United States, printed by his Western Map Depot in Chicago. This printing is a large-format sheet, hand-colored with township boundaries marked in red, drawn at a close survey scale that lets individual townships and rail lines stand out clearly. The sheet maps Minnesota statewide, showing rivers, lakes, towns, and railroads across a state whose rail network was expanding rapidly in the years following the post-Civil War building boom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTownship boundaries are outlined in red across the sheet, a grid-based land-survey layer reflecting how Minnesota's farmland was actually subdivided and sold to settlers under the federal township system. Railroads are prominently marked crossing the state, the map's central organizing feature and a direct record of how thoroughly rail had reshaped Minnesota's transportation by the late 1870s. Rivers, lakes, and towns are labeled throughout, with the state's northern lake country receiving the same careful township detail as its more settled southern counties. Together the townships, the railroads, and the labeled lakes sketch a state whose land was, by 1878, being organized and sold off township by township at a rapid pace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a Minnesota family with late-19th-century homesteading roots, or a collector building out the state's maps across the decades, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries Minnesota from Cram's own later 1893 edition, Mitchell's 1884 sheet, and Rogers \u0026amp; Johnston's earlier 1857 territorial sheet, all elsewhere in this collection; this 1878 Cram railroad-and-township sheet is the only one of the group built specifically around the federal township grid rather than county-level administrative boundaries. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324704075,"sku":"SKU1441-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324736843,"sku":"SKU1441-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324769611,"sku":"SKU1441-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324802379,"sku":"SKU1441-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324835147,"sku":"SKU1441-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324867915,"sku":"SKU1441-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324900683,"sku":"SKU1441-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324933451,"sku":"SKU1441-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58513324966219,"sku":"SKU1441-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1441.jpg?v=1789676226","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/minnesota-map-1878-railroad-print-st-paul-minneapolis-duluth","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}