Missoula, Montana, 1884 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 Missoula, 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 Missoula, Mon. county seat of Missoula County 1884
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Missoula, Montana, 1884
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Missoula, Montana, in 1884 was a young railroad town at the meeting of the Clark Fork and Bitterroot rivers, where the Northern Pacific had reached the valley only a year earlier. The railroad made the town a shipping point for timber from the surrounding forests, and sawmills and flour mills along the rivers were the main employers. Fort Missoula, an army post established in the late 1870s, gave the town a military presence and a small garrison payroll. Residents of the period knew Missoula as the commercial center of western Montana, a place where new brick storefronts were replacing the frame buildings of the earlier trading post at Hellgate.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), beck & pauli, stoner, j. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Missoula, 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 | 7,600 × 4,704 px · prints to 25 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Missoula, Mon. county seat of Missoula County 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489501 |
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