Snohomish, Washington, 1890 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Snohomish, Washington, 1890. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Birds-eye view of Snohomish, Washington
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Snohomish, Washington, 1890
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Snohomish, Washington, in 1890 was a river town in its first year of statehood, since Washington had been admitted to the Union in November 1889. That summer a fire had swept Seattle's business district, and Puget Sound communities were competing hard for investment and settlers. Snohomish rested on the Snohomish River, where its economy combined farming in the surrounding bottomlands with lumber and shingle mills that turned the region's dense conifer forests into cargo. Steamboats carried goods downriver toward Puget Sound, so the river was the town's main road and its link to the wider world. The bird's-eye view records each street and building as the town stood at the moment it entered statehood.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | sun publishing company, elliott pub. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Snohomish, Washington, drawn in 1890. 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 | 7,360 × 5,728 px · prints to 25 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds-eye view of Snohomish, Washington |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491299 |
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