Ogden City, Utah, 1889 – 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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Step back in time with Ogden City, Utah, 1889, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Ogden City, Utah Territory
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Ogden City, Utah, 1889
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In 1889 Ogden was still part of the Utah Territory, and Utah would not become a state until 1896. The town's economy rested on the railroad, with Union Pacific shops and engine houses making it one of the busiest rail stops between Omaha and the Pacific coast. Many of the men who worked those yards and the freight depots lived in modest frame houses on the grid laid out by the early settlers. Federal pressure over plural marriage, intensified by the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887, shaped local politics and church life during these years. This bird's-eye view records the streets and rail yards as residents of that decade would have known them.
| Created / published | 1889 |
|---|---|
| Creator | darling, eugene f. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ogden City, Utah, drawn in 1889. 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 | 11,504 × 6,720 px · prints to 38 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Ogden City, Utah Territory |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491108 |
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