Walla Walla, Washington, 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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Step back in time with Walla Walla, Washington, 1884, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Walla Walla, Washington, 1884
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Walla Walla in 1884 was a farm and merchant town in the southeastern corner of Washington Territory, and wheat from the surrounding valley was its chief business. Grain moved by wagon and rail toward shipping points on the Columbia, and warehouses and mills in town handled much of that trade. Storefronts along the main streets supplied ranchers and farmers from across the county, while churches, schools, and newspapers gave the town a settled civic life. Residents knew it as a prosperous interior center that still lay close to its frontier past. Statehood was five years away, and local leaders were watching the rail and river routes that would shape the valley's future.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Walla Walla, Washington, 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--Washington |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 8,288 × 5,392 px · prints to 28 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491305 |
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