Portland, Oregon, 1879 – Antique Wall Map
(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 Portland, Oregon, 1879 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Portland, Oregon 1890
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Portland, Oregon, 1879
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Portland, Oregon, in 1879 was a river port of under 20,000 people where the Willamette meets the Columbia, and its waterfront depended on shipping wheat, flour, and lumber downriver and overseas. Steamboats and sailing ships crowded the docks, and the rail line south to Salem and California had linked the city to wider markets only a few years before. The Great Fire of 1873 had destroyed much of the old business district, and merchants had rebuilt it in brick and iron. Residents of the time knew Portland as the commercial center of the Willamette Valley, a city still measured by its wharves, sawmills, and warehouses rather than by any transcontinental connection, which would not arrive until 1883.
| Created / published | 1879 |
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| Creator | clohessy & strengele (firm), elliott pub. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Portland, Oregon, drawn in 1879. 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 | 13,664 × 9,520 px · prints to 46 × 32 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Portland, Oregon 1890 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490431 |
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