Ogden City, Utah, 1875 – 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 Ogden City, Utah, 1875 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Ogden City, Utah, Ty. 1875
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Ogden City, Utah, 1875
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Ogden, Utah, in 1875 was a town of a few thousand people where the Ogden and Weber rivers meet at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. Latter-day Saint settlers arrived in the late 1840s, and the town took its name from the fur trader Peter Skene Ogden. The transcontinental railroad, completed in 1869, made it a junction, bringing non-Mormon merchants and freight into a community otherwise organized around church wards and river farms. Weber County's seat, the town still depended on its mills and fields, and a rail line also ran south to Salt Lake City. This view captures a place caught between its pioneer street grid and the new depot district that the railroad was starting to build.
| Created / published | 1875 |
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| Creator | strobridge & co. lith, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ogden 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 | 7,144 × 5,352 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Ogden City, Utah, Ty. 1875 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491107 |
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