Madison, Dakota Territory, 1883 – 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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This antique map of Madison, Dakota Territory, 1883 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: 1883 bird's eye view of Madison, county seat of Lake Co. Dakota
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Madison, Dakota Territory, 1883
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Madison, in the Dakota Territory's Lake County, was a young railroad and farm town in 1883, only a few years removed from its founding in the late 1870s. Settlers who had arrived with the rail lines were breaking prairie sod for wheat and corn, and the town served as the county seat and a shipping point for the surrounding farms. Its most notable institution was the territorial normal school, opened in 1881 to train teachers for a population that expected its schools, churches, and courthouse to keep pace with its growth. Statehood was still six years away, so residents thought of themselves as pioneers in a territory whose future boundaries and capital were still being argued over.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, brosius, h., stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Madison, 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 | 6,424 × 4,072 px · prints to 21 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | 1883 bird's eye view of Madison, county seat of Lake Co. Dakota |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488200 |
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