Title

Main Street, Butte City, Montana', c1897.

Caption

'Main Street, Butte City, Montana', c1897. Established in 1864 as a mining camp, Butte became one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. From "A Tour Through the New World America", by Prof. Geo. R. Cromwell. [C. N. Greig & Co., London, c1897]

Date

1897

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F13_005

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

80,7Mb (3,3Mb) / 20,0in x 15,7in / 5996 x 4702 (300dpi)

Keywords

photograph exterior outdoors road buildings people male man men communications town arts industry country book guy view lane Montana avenue mining New World wild west location century vista literature concept telegraph pole B&W wide MONOCHROME Main Street American West United States of America Day 19th century black & white black and white background people B W nineteenth century American history historic America USA The Print Collector TGN outside street photograph united states Unknown Cromwell George Co boom town George Cromwell Professor George Cromwell Professor George R Cromwell George R Cromwell mining camp Butte City Tour Through the New World America George R Geo R Cromwell CN Greig & Co CN Greig & boomtown Silver Bow county