Livingston, Montana, 1884 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Livingston, Montana, 1884 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Livingston, Mon., Gallatin County 1883
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Livingston, Montana, 1884
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Livingston, Montana, was barely two years old in 1884, a town the Northern Pacific Railroad had laid out in 1882 where its main line crossed the Yellowstone River. Montana was still a territory then, and the railroad shaped nearly everything about the place. Its yards and shops employed a steady payroll of railroad men, while cattle and sheep from the surrounding valleys moved east by rail. Travelers bound for Yellowstone National Park passed through on their way south, adding visitors to the town's trade. The people who lived there knew it as a raw railroad settlement still working out its shape.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Livingston, 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 | 7,056 × 4,784 px · prints to 24 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Livingston, Mon., Gallatin County 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489499 |
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