Oregon City, Oregon, 1850 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this antique map of Oregon City, Oregon, 1850. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Oregon City
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Oregon City, Oregon, 1850
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Oregon City, Oregon, in 1850 was a small river town built around Willamette Falls, the only major obstacle on the Willamette River, where salmon runs and waterpower drew settlers and mills. The Provisional Government had made it the first incorporated town west of the Rockies in 1844, and after Congress created Oregon Territory in 1848, it served as the seat of territorial government. The 1849 California gold rush had pulled many men south, leaving Oregon's farms and mills short of labor. Residents of the falls and the surrounding Willamette Valley knew the town as the center of local politics and the head of river navigation for the settlements upstream.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | richardson, james h. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Oregon City, Oregon, drawn in 1850. 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 | 2,496 × 1,688 px · prints to 8 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Oregon City |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490428 |
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