Aberdeen, 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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A window into the past: Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, 1883, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Aberdeen, Dak
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Aberdeen, Dakota Territory, 1883
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Aberdeen, in the Dakota Territory, was a young railroad town in 1883, not yet two years old. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had pushed its line across the James River valley and laid out the townsite in 1881, and the settlement took its name from Aberdeen, Scotland, the hometown of a railroad official. Wheat was the economic engine of the surrounding prairie, and grain elevators and the depot were where farm families sold their harvest and bought supplies. Settlers arriving on the trains were filling the surrounding Brown County, and the town was competing with its neighbors for the county seat and for the business that followed the rails. Territorial politics in these years centered on whether Dakota would be admitted as one state or two, a question not settled until 1889.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), marple, h. m., hagerty, frank h. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Aberdeen, 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 | 8,176 × 4,716 px · prints to 27 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Aberdeen, Dak |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488194 |
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