Seattle, Washington, 1884 – 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: Seattle, Washington, 1884, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of Seattle, W.T., Puget Sound, county seat of King County 1884
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Seattle, Washington, 1884
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Seattle in 1884 was a town of a few thousand people on Elliott Bay, still part of the Territory of Washington and five years away from statehood. The Northern Pacific Railroad had reached Tacoma in 1883, and Seattle's merchants watched that rival port draw freight and investment that had once come straight to their wharves. The town's population would grow many times over in the next decade, and its wooden downtown would be rebuilt in brick and stone after the great fire of June 1889. People who lived here in 1884 would have known the streets on this map by name, in a place still small enough that most residents recognized one another.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | wellge, h. (henry), stoner, j. j., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Seattle, 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, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 10,032 × 5,568 px · prints to 33 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of Seattle, W.T., Puget Sound, county seat of King County 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491296 |
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