{"title":"North Dakota Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntique and vintage maps of North Dakota, from 19th-century state maps to city plans of Bismarck, Fargo and Grand Forks. Every print is made in your region and delivered free.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"north-dakota-map-1893-state-print-bismarck-fargo-grand-forks","title":"North Dakota Map 1893 State Print - Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago drew tens of millions of visitors to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, and George F. Cram's publishing house marked the occasion with an atlas sold and given away well beyond the fairgrounds, including, in this case, through Wood Brothers Cash Store in Unadilla, New York. Among the ninety state and territory maps bound into that volume is this sheet for North Dakota, printed the same year the state marked only its fourth anniversary of admission to the Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe map lays out North Dakota's counties in outline color, with red boundary lines separating each one and hachures used to suggest the gentle relief of the prairie and the river breaks along the Missouri and Red River valleys. Cities and towns are marked at the scale the map allows, 1:2,000,000, and the sheet references both the Greenwich and Washington prime meridians in keeping with the atlas's standard format. As a snapshot of a young state barely settled beyond its rail lines and county seats, it captures North Dakota at an early and formative moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's a natural pick for anyone with North Dakota homesteader ancestry, for a relative who grew up there and later settled elsewhere, or for a collector building out a full set of Cram's 1893 state maps. It also works well as a housewarming or anniversary gift for someone with ties to the state. The print is offered unframed and in a range of sizes, so it can be ordered to match the space you have in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506009837899,"sku":"1225-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506009870667,"sku":"1225-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506009903435,"sku":"1225-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506009936203,"sku":"1225-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506009968971,"sku":"1225-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506010001739,"sku":"1225-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506010034507,"sku":"1225-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506010067275,"sku":"1225-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58506010100043,"sku":"1225-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1225.jpg?v=1789637654"},{"product_id":"north-dakota-map-1935-pictorial-print-bismarck-fargo-grand-forks","title":"North Dakota Map 1935 Pictorial Print - Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Taylor White drew this pictorial map of North Dakota for Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography, a whimsical cartoon atlas published by Little, Brown, and Company in 1935 with text by Frank J. Taylor, covering all 48 states in fifty-eight full-color illustrated sheets. This sheet appears on page 77 of the atlas, printed in bright lithographed color and filled with small hand-drawn scenes rather than any conventional survey detail, a style built to entertain a Depression-era audience as much as inform it. North Dakota is shown here through its agricultural identity and its Native American heritage, the two themes that most defined the state's popular image in the 1930s. Ruth Taylor White and Frank Taylor built the atlas as a joint effort, her illustrations paired with his short, wry captions, and the finished sheets sold well enough during the Depression that Little, Brown kept the title in print for several years after its first release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWheat fields are illustrated across much of the state's farmland, the crop most closely associated with North Dakota agriculture at the time. Livestock and general farm activity fill in the remaining countryside, reinforcing the state's overwhelmingly rural character. Native American figures in traditional attire and teepees are illustrated as well, a reflection of the tribal nations with a long-standing presence in the region. Together the wheat fields, the livestock scenes, and the Native American imagery sketch a North Dakota defined almost entirely by farming set against the backdrop of its Indigenous history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA North Dakota family with farming roots will recognize this map's take on the state immediately, and it makes a distinctive gift for anyone who prefers a whimsical, Depression-era view of North Dakota to a conventional antique survey. The store's other Dakota-region editions include Cram's 1878 undivided-territory sheet and his later 1893 and 1883 printings, all standard survey-style cartography; this 1935 Little, Brown sheet is the only pictorial, cartoon-style map of North Dakota the collection carries. 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