Seattle, 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 rare antique map captures Seattle, Washington, 1903 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Main business district periscopic Seattle
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Seattle, Washington, 1903
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Seattle in 1903 was a city of roughly 80,000 people, and its growth owed much to the Klondike and Alaska gold rush, which had made its waterfront the main outfitting port for prospectors heading north after 1897. Steamers loaded with miners' supplies crowded Elliott Bay, and the warehouses, hotels, and saloons that served them stood on the flats below the business district. Up the hill, crews were already washing away Denny Hill with powerful water jets to lower the streets, a project that would reshape downtown for decades. Residents knew their city as a boomtown still learning to act like a metropolis, arguing over streetcar lines, civic order, and its rough reputation.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Creator | tulloch, ross m. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Seattle, 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 | 6,904 × 6,088 px · prints to 23 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Main business district periscopic Seattle |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491297 |
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