Mandan, Dakota Territory, 1883 – Antique Map Print
(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: Mandan, 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: Bird's eye view of Mandan, Dak., county seat of Morton Co. 1883
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Mandan, Dakota Territory, 1883
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Mandan, on the west bank of the Missouri River in Dakota Territory, was a young railroad town in 1883, founded only about two years earlier when the Northern Pacific Railway chose the site for a division point and shops. Its economy rested on the rail line, which moved grain, livestock, and freight east and supplied steady work for the men in the yards and roundhouse. Across the river, Bismarck was gaining ground as the territory's center, and in 1883 the seat of territorial government moved there from Yankton. Mandan residents would have known their town as the railroad's workaday neighbor to the capital, with Fort Abraham Lincoln, where Custer's 7th Cavalry had departed in 1876, a few miles to the south.
| Created / published | 1883 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Mandan, 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 | 7,024 × 4,192 px · prints to 23 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Mandan, Dak., county seat of Morton Co. 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488201 |
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