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Banking Up for winter in Dakota
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| Title | Banking Up for winter in Dakota |
| Date of Original | 1886 |
| Creator | Graham, C.
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| Creator Role | Illustrator
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| Description | Farmstead with people working near buildings and placing items in underground area. Several men on horses. Windmill in background and clouds in sky appear dark and foreboding. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Weather
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Farms
Log cabins
Horses
Autumn
Winter
Clouds
Windmills
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| Location | North Dakota
United States
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| Decade | 1880-1889
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| Item Number | Folio 102.EnB45.2 |
| Format of Original | Lithographs
Color images
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| Dimensions of Original | 17 x 23 cm. |
| Publisher of Original | Harper's Magazine Co.
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| Place of Publication | New York (N.Y.)
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| Transcription | "Banking Up for Winter. It is said that there are portions of this globe, noticeably in the neighborhood of the north pole, that are colder in the winter season than the territory of Dakota, but it would at times be a difficult matter to convince the residents of Dakota that such is the case. When, as happens frequently, there steals over the plains of Dakota a frigid wave, so very frigid that you can almost see it, speculation as to the relative degrees of cold ceases to be a matter of any profit, and when this extremely low temperature is accompanied by a gale of wind known in that locality as a 'blizzard, ' life itself appears profitless. in view of these climatic freaks the residents of Dakota'a airy plans have a sensible habit, at about the time cold weather is due, of very effectually weather-stripping their houses. The artist has furnished an interesting picture of this operation, which is as common on the Dakota plains as the addition of winter storm doors to country houses is in the East. Residences which meet all the requirements of summer life on the plains, little plain clap-board houses, would be about as comfortable during the winter season as a gauze shirt and a sun-umbrella in Greenland. Fortunately nature supplies an excellent variety of sod, and ere the days grow short in the autumn the prudent householder puts an overcoat of this material upon his dwelling. it is slightly damaging to the paint, and when it is removed in the spring-time the house is apt to have the appearance of having been swallowed by an earthquake and dug up again. But people who live on the plains do not, as a rule, care much for appearances." - Text (p. 45) that accompanies image. |
| Notes | Title from caption with image.
"Drawing by Charles Graham."
Black and white version also available in collection. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | Dakota Lithographs and Engravings Collection Folio 102
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/6673 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (Folio 102.EnB45.2) |
| Rights Management | Image in public domain. |
| Language | eng; |
| Digital ID | rsL00047 |
| Original Source | Harper's Weekly, Jan. 16, 1886. p. 37. |
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