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Perspective map of the city of Helena, Mont

Description: Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Helena, Montana, and the surrounding hills, with four insets and thirteen vignettes in the lower margin of public buildings, hotels, railroads, street railways, schools, newspapers, and churches in the town; related keys printed in the lower margin.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1890
Call number: priJLC_VIEW_000520
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Perspective map of Butte City, Mont. County Seat of Silver Bow County. 1890 Population 35,000

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Image of an aerial view of Butte City, Montana, and surrounding hills, with fourteen vignettes of factories around the upper and lower borders; keys labeling railroads, mines, mills, reducting and smelting works, street railroads, and electric light companies printed in the lower margin.

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The unique map of California

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Image of a map of the state of California with counties and railroad routes identified; twenty vignettes of eye-level views of scenic destinations including the Hotel Del Coronado, the Hotel Del Monte, the state capitol, the Lick Observatory, and wilderness areas and bodies of water throughout the state; with three insets of the state outline with printed references about soil, temperature, and the area of California as compared to ten eastern states; vignette of the seal of the State of California in lower right margin.

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Bird’s eye view of the city of Red Wing : Coodhue Co Minnesota 1868

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Red Wing, Minnesota, showing steamboats on the Mississippi River in the foreground; with three vignettes in the lower margin of eye-level street views of the public school, Hamline University building, and court house; location key in bottom center margin.

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View of Newark, N.J. : from the north

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Image of an elevated landscape view of the city of Newark, New Jersey, from across the bay, showing boats and a train crossing railroad tracks over the water; four vignettes in the lower margin of street scenes at Upper Park, Market St., Broad St., and Lower Park.

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Image of an aerial view in the style of a military topographical map of the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863 during the American Civil War; officers’ signatures in bottom margin endorse accuracy of troop positions; keys to map in bottom margin.

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Putnam, Connecticut

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city of Putnam, Connecticut, with the Quinebaug River running through the center; ten vignettes in the upper and lower borders of factories, churches, the Notre Dame de Bon Secours Academy campus, and Pleasant Valley; location key in the bottom margin.

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Perspective map of the city of Helena, Mont

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