[MAP] Perspective Map of the City of Helena, Mont. Capital of State, County Seat of Lewis & Clark Co. 1890

Book Description

Milwaukee: American Publishing Co., 1890 Original bird's-eye-view two-stone lithograph. 26¼ x 39½ inches. Framed and glazed. A very fine example. A large and magnificent two-stone lithograph of Helena, Montana with streets named and all the buildings shown in perspective. Printed in black and shades of gray. There are seventeen inset views of outlying subdivisions, and specific buildings including the East Side additions of Lenox and Corbin, the Northern Pacific Railroad repair shops and round house, the Wallace-Thornburgh Lumber Company, the Helena Daily Journal and other newspapers, the Broadwater Hotel and Natatorium, various banks, manufacturing plants, the residence of W.E. Cox, Nick Kessler's brewery, etc. At the bottom center under the title of the image: "Compliments of Kessler's Brewery, Nicholas Kessler, Proprietor, Helena - Montana." [Reps, Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: 2090]..

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