The Dalles, Oregon, 1884 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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 antique map of The Dalles, Oregon, 1884. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Panoramic view of the city of The Dalles, Or. county seat of Wasco County 1884
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The Dalles, Oregon, 1884
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The Dalles, on the Columbia River in north-central Oregon, was the Wasco County seat in 1884 and a shipping point for the wheat and wool grown in the interior valleys. The town sat at the edge of the Columbia Gorge, where the river's rapids forced cargo to be unloaded and carried around them, a portage that had drawn Native fishing and trading communities for centuries before settlers arrived. By the early 1880s the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's line along the river was bringing rail traffic into town, linking local farms and warehouses to Portland and to the coast. Residents of the period knew The Dalles as a river town of commerce and county politics, with its former army post at Fort Dalles, abandoned in 1867, already a memory.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of The Dalles, Oregon, drawn in 1884. 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--Oregon |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,256 × 4,632 px · prints to 28 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Panoramic view of the city of The Dalles, Or. county seat of Wasco County 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490434 |
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