Brigham City, Utah, 1875 – 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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Brigham City, Utah, 1875 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of Brigham City and Great Salt Lake, Utah, Ty. 1875
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Brigham City, Utah, 1875
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Brigham City, Utah, in 1875 was a small farming town in the Box Elder Valley, settled by Latter-day Saint families beginning in 1851 and named for Brigham Young, the church's president. Its economy rested on irrigated fields of grain, dairy herds, and orchards that gave the valley its reputation for fruit. As the seat of Box Elder County, the town was home to county courts and church wards, and its residents organized much of their shared work, including the canals, roads, and public buildings that kept the settlement running. Life followed the farm calendar, with irrigation water, harvests, and the meetinghouse and school setting the rhythm of the week. The town's streets and buildings, laid out on a grid, reflected the planned settlement that the founders had envisioned.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Creator | strobridge & co. lith, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Brigham City, Utah, drawn in 1875. 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--Utah |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,176 × 5,088 px · prints to 24 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of Brigham City and Great Salt Lake, Utah, Ty. 1875 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491106 |
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