Frederick, Dakota Territory, 1883 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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This antique map of Frederick, Dakota Territory, 1883 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Frederick, Dak. 1883
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Frederick, Dakota Territory, 1883
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Frederick, in the northeastern part of Dakota Territory, was a young railroad town in 1883, and its fortunes followed the tracks laid across the prairie in the early 1880s. Wheat and other small grains grown on newly broken homestead land were shipped out by rail, so grain buyers, elevator operators, and the merchants who supplied farm families mattered as much as any local trade. Most residents were recent arrivals from the Upper Midwest and northern Europe, and they were still building churches, schools, and frame houses while many neighbors lived in sod or claim shanties on the edges of town. Dakota was a territory then, not a state; its residents were voting on questions of statehood and organizing counties, and the town's wooden storefronts and grain buildings near the depot would have been the things its people most readily recognized as Frederick.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | campau, c. f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Frederick, Dakota Territory, drawn in 1883. 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,576 × 3,824 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Frederick, Dak. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488198 |
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