20TH CENTURY MAP OF SOUTH DAKOTA

Sioux Falls: Will A. Beach, 1902. Interesting locally produced map by E. Frank Peterson of Vermillion, South Dakota, promoting the “Famous Artesian Belt” of eastern South Dakota. The counties and reservations are outlined in red, with a printed overlay for the Security Land Company of Alexandria, South Dakota, pasted above the map: “Have a Choice List of Lands and Stock Ranches in Edmunds, Walworth, Brown, Hand, Aurora, Jerauld, and Lyman Counties, in the Famous Artesian Belt, Flowing Wells, at From 700 to 1,000 feet.” Alexandria is one of five cities on the map identified with a red star.
 
The map (21 ¾” x 18 ½”) folds into printed paper (truncated) wrappers (3 ¼” x 6”), with further advertising from the Security Land Company on the front panel. Small splits at some of the seams, a few mended with tape. The map is a bit musty (mothballs). Ink notation to the rear panel of the wrappers, which are edgeworn and toned.
 
The map was adapted by at least three different publishers to promote other regions of South Dakota. All are uncommon. OCLC locates only four holdings of this particular issue: Yale, Lincoln Presidential Library, Southern Methodist, and Stanford. (Inventory #: 78146)