Great Falls, Montana, 1891 – 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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A window into the past: Great Falls, Montana, 1891, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Perspective map of Great Falls, Mont. 1891
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Great Falls, Montana, 1891
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Great Falls, Montana, in 1891 was a young town of roughly seven years, built beside the Missouri River's falls, where the drop in the water had drawn attention for its power. Paris Gibson laid out the townsite in 1884, and the arrival of the Great Northern line in 1887 linked it to the wider rail network and to the wheat and cattle country around it. Montana had become a state only two years earlier, in 1889, and Great Falls was competing with older river towns for county seat status and for investment in mills, smelting, and new streets. Residents of the period would have known it as a place of wide boulevards on paper, a rapidly expanding business district, and a river that powered industry as well as swept over the rocks.
| Created / published | 1891 |
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| Creator | american publishing co. (milwaukee, wis.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Great Falls, Montana, drawn in 1891. 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 | 10,688 × 7,552 px · prints to 36 × 25 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Perspective map of Great Falls, Mont. 1891 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489495 |
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