Spokane, Washington, 1905 – Antique Map Print
(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 Spokane, Washington, 1905 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: Spokane, Washington
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Spokane, Washington, 1905
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Spokane in 1905 was a railroad and lumber town built around the falls of the Spokane River, where water power drove sawmills and flour mills that shipped their output by rail. The Northern Pacific and Great Northern lines both served the city, which had become a supply and banking center for the mining camps of the Coeur d'Alene district and the wheat country of the surrounding Inland Empire. The great fire of 1889 had destroyed much of the downtown, and merchants rebuilt in brick and stone, so the business blocks on this map reflect a city that expected to keep growing. Residents knew Spokane as a fast-rising boomtown of the interior Northwest, where newcomers stepped off trains by the carload and civic leaders argued over streetcars, water supply, and electric power from the falls.
| Created / published | 1905 |
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| Creator | john w. graham & co. (spokane, wash.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Spokane, Washington, drawn in 1905. 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 | 17,878 × 11,541 px · prints to 60 × 38 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Spokane, Washington |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491300 |
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