Billings, Montana, 1904 – 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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Billings, Montana, 1904 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Billings, Montana, county seat of Yellowstone County 1904
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Billings, Montana, 1904
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Billings, Montana, in 1904 was a young railroad town, founded in 1882 when the Northern Pacific Railway made the site a division point and named it for the line's president, Frederick Billings. Its economy rested on the rail yards and on the cattle and sheep ranges spreading across eastern Montana, with livestock and freight moving through its depots toward eastern and western markets. Residents called it the Magic City for how quickly it had grown, and civic life centered on the work of building a city: laying out streets, raising brick storefronts, and organizing schools, churches, and local government. Irrigated farming along the Yellowstone River was still in its early stages, and the sugar beet industry that would later reshape the valley had not yet arrived.
| Created / published | 1904 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Billings, Montana, drawn in 1904. 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 | 9,056 × 5,632 px · prints to 30 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Billings, Montana, county seat of Yellowstone County 1904 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489493 |
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