Clark, Dakota Territory, 1882 – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Clark, Dakota Territory, 1882. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Clark, Dakota Territory, 1882
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Clark, in the eastern part of Dakota Territory, was a young railroad town in 1882, laid out along the Chicago and North Western line as it pushed west across the prairie. Its economy rested on wheat and other grain from surrounding homesteads, which moved out by rail to eastern markets, and on the stores, grain elevators, and lumber yards that supplied incoming settlers. As the seat of Clark County, the town held the courthouse and county offices, which gave it a civic life centered on land claims and local government during the rush of settlement that filled the territory in the early 1880s. Residents would have known Clark as a rail stop in a region still waiting for statehood, which did not arrive until 1889.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Clark, Dakota Territory, drawn in 1882. 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--Dakota Territory |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 6,288 × 3,768 px · prints to 21 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488196 |
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