Jack Rosenthal Map Collection
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Title
Jack Rosenthal Map Collection
Description
The Jack Rosenthal Map Collection consists of 27 framed maps archived by the Casper College Western History Center. Jack Rosenthal was a businessman who worked in radio and television. He was also a historian and collector and lived in Buffalo, Wyoming. The Jack Rosenthal Family of Casper donated these maps to Casper College.
Source
Jack Rosenthal Map Collection, NCA 01.v.2008.02 WyCaC US. Casper College Archives and Special Collections (Western History Center).
Publisher
Casper College Western History Center
Format
Though not all of the maps have been digitized as of yet, the files in this digital collection consist of JPGs.
Language
ENG
Collection Items
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Southern portion of Dacotah
Most of the area that is now Wyoming, except for a small attachment remaining with Idaho territory, became part of Dakota territory in May of1864, for a four-year period until Wyoming, itself, became a territory in 1868. Not the lightly engraved…
Blue Water Creek, Little Thunder, Attack of 09/03/1855
The primary mission of the forces commanded by Brigadier General, W.S. Harney in 1855 was to suppress the Sioux in the Dakota country, not yet a territory. He was accompanied by army topographical engineer, Lt. G.K. Warren and geologist, Dr. F.V.…
County and Township of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming
An 1881 County and Township map by S.A. Mitchell of Philadelphia. Seven counties are shown in Wyoming, the map not reflecting that the legislative assembly had changed the name of Pease Country to Johnson, two years earlier. Fort Mc Kinney is…
County map of Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado
From an atlas produced by S. Augustus Mitchell of Philadelphia. This 1870 rendering reflects the construction of the Denver Pacific Railroad, joining the Union Pacific at Cheyenne, from the south.
Tunison's Wyoming and Eastern Montana
The eleven counties of Wyoming territory as they appeared from 1888 to 1890, when Weston and Big Horn counties were formed.
Map of Railroad Development in Wyoming
This circa 1900 map by George F. Cram of Chicago reflects railroad development in Wyoming. The Burlington and Missouri Valley built across Weston County in 1889. The Union Pacific from Cheyenne north to Wendover and the Oregon Short Line from Granger…
Wyoming, 13 county config.'
A map of the 13-county configuration which existed for nineteen years, from 1890 to 1909. The map shows the Fremont, Elkhorn, and Missouri Valley Railroad (later the Chicago Northwestern) to Casper, but short of its eventual terminus of Lander.
