Butte, Montana, 1884 – 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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Butte, Montana, 1884 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Butte-City, Montana, county seat of Silver Bow Co., 1884
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Butte, Montana, 1884
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Butte, Montana, in 1884 was a mining camp that had grown into the largest city in the Montana Territory, built on the slopes of a hill rich in silver and copper. The Northern Pacific Railway had reached the town a few years earlier, carrying ore out and bringing in machinery, supplies, and workers from across Europe and the eastern states. Headframes, smelter smoke, and rows of wood-frame houses crowded the hillside, and the town's Cornish, Irish, and other immigrant miners worked underground in shifts that shaped daily life. Marcus Daly's expanding copper operations were already drawing the investment that would make Butte one of the great copper centers of the world, though in 1884 few residents could have predicted how large that future would be.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, w. coleman & co, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Butte, Montana, drawn in 1884. 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--Montana |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 9,392 × 6,112 px · prints to 31 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Butte-City, Montana, county seat of Silver Bow Co., 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489494 |
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