Tacoma, Washington, 1893 – 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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A window into the past: Tacoma, Washington, 1893, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Tacoma, Washington
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Tacoma, Washington, 1893
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Tacoma in 1893 was a city of roughly 36,000 people, grown from a Commencement Bay lumber landing into a major railroad terminus within about a decade. The Northern Pacific's western end and its wharves, mills, and grain warehouses made the waterfront the center of commerce, and the smelter and sawmills gave the city an industrial edge. That prosperity was already cracking when the map was drawn, because the Panic of 1893 that spring brought bank failures and the Northern Pacific's receivership, leaving many new buildings half finished and speculators in trouble. Residents who had watched the boom of the late 1880s now measured their town against those losses, and the city's ambitions for a great Pacific port would have seemed both close and uncertain.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Creator | blatchly co, mcintyre, j. r. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Tacoma, Washington, drawn in 1893. 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 | 13,154 × 8,256 px · prints to 44 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Tacoma, Washington |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491302 |
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