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Collection Summary
Collection: 00239 - Miscellaneous Photograph Collection
Folder: 0003
Item: 00171
Title: Fort Union and Distribution of Goods to the Assinniboines
Date: 1860
Creator: Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872
Inscription/Marks: [Printed on top border of image] U.S.P.R.R. EXXP. & SURVEYS – 47TH & 49TH PARALLELS. GENERAL REPORT – PLATE XVI. [Printed below image] Stanley Del. Sarony, Major & Knapp, Lith.s 449 Broadway N.Y. [Printed below line border] Fort Union and Distribution of Goods to the Assinniboines. [Handwritten in black ink bottom right on border] Eastern Montana Territory
Summary: Tinted Lithograph, image approx. 6 x 9 inches on sheet 8 x 11 ¼ inches. Plate XVI, taken from the 12th volume, Part I, of the Report of the United States Pacific Railroad Expedition and Surveys (USPRR) - 47th and 49th Parallels published by Washington, D.C. Thomas Ford, Printer, 1860 . The Survey was undertaken to find the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific. Illustrated by John Mix Stanley. Lithographed by Sarony, Major & Knapp, Lithographers.
Red ID: PH_I_149397 Image ID: 99302 Image Notes: 00239-00171

Collection: 00239 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Miscellaneous Photograph Collection
Date: 1855-1957

Summary: Images of wheat threshing, Caledonia Creamery, Bismarck firemen, Capital Aviation, Women’s Temperance march, Devils Lake, and scenes in Bismarck, Mandan, Mohall, Devils Lake, Linton, Hillsboro, Wilton, Jamestown, Minot, Valley City, Grand Forks, and Fargo.

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