Port Townsend, Washington, 1878 – 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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A window into the past: Port Townsend, Washington, 1878, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory 1878
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Port Townsend, Washington, 1878
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Port Townsend, on the northeast tip of the Olympic Peninsula, was a small seaport in the Washington Territory in 1878, and many of its residents expected it to become the leading city on Puget Sound. Its harbor at the entrance to Admiralty Inlet made it the port of entry where ships bound for the Sound cleared customs, and sawmills along the waterfront loaded lumber onto vessels headed for distant markets. Civic life was shaped by rivalry with Seattle and Olympia over trade, railroads and the prospects of the county seat, and the streets held frame stores, hotels and saloons that served sailors, loggers and mill hands. The town's sense of its own future was tied closely to the water.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Creator | a.l. bancroft & company, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Port Townsend, Washington, drawn in 1878. 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 | 8,384 × 5,648 px · prints to 28 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Port Townsend, Puget Sound, Washington Territory 1878 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491294 |
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