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Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory. From the north-east. 1878 / drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San Francisco, Cal. – Historic Map Reproduction

Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory. From the north-east. 1878 / drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore. : E.S. Glover, c1878. — historic image
Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory. From the north-east. 1878 / drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San Francisco, Cal., Portland, Ore. : E.S. Glover, c1878.. Historic image from the Oregon collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory. From the north-east. 1878 / drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San Francisco, Cal.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory. From the north-east. 1878 / drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon ; A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San Francisco, Cal.

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Seen from the north-east, this lithograph lays out Port Townsend on the Quimper Peninsula at the entrance to Puget Sound, with its harbor, streets, and waterfront spread below the viewer. Portland publisher E.S. Glover drew the view in 1878, and the San Francisco firm A.L. Bancroft & Co. printed it. Such bird's-eye views were popular in the late 1870s, circulating as promotional souvenirs that presented growing towns as busy ports. Port Townsend, then in Washington Territory, hoped to become a major shipping center, and this view reflects that ambition.

Created / publishedPortland, Ore. : E.S. Glover, c1878.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan8,755 × 5,818 px · prints to 29 × 19 in at 300 dpi
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