Olympia, Washington, 1903 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This antique map of Olympia, Washington, 1903 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Olympia, the capital on Puget Sound, Washington
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Olympia, Washington, 1903
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Olympia, Washington, in 1903 was a state capital of about 6,000 people, having become one when Washington entered the Union in 1889. Its economy combined state government employment with the lumber trade, as sawmills and shingle mills on Puget Sound shipped timber from the port on Budd Inlet. Breweries, oyster beds, and dairy farms in Thurston County added to local commerce, while the capitol buildings then rising on the hill gave residents a sense that their town had a lasting public purpose. Local people knew Olympia as the seat of state government and the Sound's southern harbor, and many of them had watched the town grow from a frontier settlement into a modest city.
| Created / published | 1903 |
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| Creator | franklin engraving & electrotyping co, lange, edward |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Olympia, Washington, drawn in 1903. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 7,136 × 5,584 px · prints to 24 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Olympia, the capital on Puget Sound, Washington |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491293 |
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