UT Salt Lake City 1891 MAP – Antique Wall Map
(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 UT Salt Lake City 1891 MAP 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: Salt Lake City, Utah 1891
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UT Salt Lake City 1891 MAP
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This 1891 bird's-eye view puts Salt Lake City's street grid, city blocks, and Wasatch Range to the east on one sheet, with the Great Salt Lake visible far to the west. The artist Henry Wellge drew it for the Milwaukee firm American Publishing Company, which issued many detailed panoramic city maps in the late 1800s. Mormon settlers laid out the city's wide, straight streets from 1847 around Temple Square, and the Salt Lake Temple was still under construction in 1891, not completed until 1893. The view is worth studying for how the mountains and the lake shaped the town's growth.
| Created / published | 1891 |
|---|---|
| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.), wellge, h. (henry) |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,609 × 3,226 px · prints to 19 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Salt Lake City, Utah 1891 |
| Reference | UT-SaltLakeCity-1891 |
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