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Digital Image: 1948 Hudson Map Company City Plan or Map of Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis-hudson-1948_d
Title
Hudson's Indexed Map of Minneapolis.
1948 (undated) 33.5 x 22 in (85.09 x 55.88 cm) 1 : 21120
1948 (undated) 33.5 x 22 in (85.09 x 55.88 cm) 1 : 21120
Description
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Digital Map Information
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Cartographer
The Hudson Map Company (1892 - present) was founded in Minneapolis in 1892 by Horace B. Hudson. Hudson began his business with a small handbook of Minneapolis that was soon recognized as essential to visitors as well as those who were just moving into the area. Initially located in downtown Minneapolis, the firm quickly began expanding and published maps and handbooks for citizens and businesses. In the early 1900s Charles L. Hall moved to Minneapolis and, having worked for a company that specialized in making promotional maps, soon began working for the Hudson Map Company. Hall and another employee, Walter Eng, bought the Hudson Map Company from Hudson a few years later. Hall and Eng changed direction slightly by opening a map store (which remained in business until 2011, when the Hudson Map Company decided that it was going to focus more on internet sales). Eng retired in 1945 and Hall became the sole owner of the business. Kenneth Hall, Charles Hall's son, joined the business in 1952 was president by 1965. In 1972, Charles T. Hall became a part of the family business, and in 1997 Joshua T. Hall, the fourth generation of the Hall family to work at the Hudson Map Company, joined the firm as a cartographer. The Hudson Map Company was sold in 2012 to its current owner. More by this mapmaker...