Salt Lake 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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This rare antique map captures Salt Lake City, Utah, 1875 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birds-eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah 1875
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Salt Lake City, Utah, 1875
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Salt Lake City in 1875 was a town of about three decades' standing, laid out on a wide grid by Latter-day Saint settlers and still organized around irrigated blocks. Brigham Young, who led the church and had served as territorial governor, remained the dominant figure in its affairs. The cooperative Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution, known as ZCMI and founded in 1868, stocked its shelves with goods arriving by rail from the East, while the Deseret News and the newer Salt Lake Tribune argued over church and politics in print. Residents would have known their city as a Mormon capital where miners, freighters and non-Mormon merchants were beginning to press against older habits of self-sufficiency.
| 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 Salt Lake 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 | 10,195 × 7,856 px · prints to 34 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds-eye view of Salt Lake City, Utah 1875 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491111 |
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