Salem, Oregon, 1876 – 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: Salem, Oregon, 1876, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Salem, Oregon 1876
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Salem, Oregon, 1876
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Salem, the seat of Oregon's state government since 1859, was a small Willamette Valley river town in 1876. Its economy rested on wheat, orchard fruit, and timber shipped along the river, and the Oregon and California Railroad's arrival in 1870 tied the town more closely to Portland and the wider rail network. Willamette University, traced to a Methodist mission school founded in 1842, gave the town an educational presence that residents valued. The state capitol and the state penitentiary, which opened in the 1860s, anchored civic life, while the river's mills and landings determined where people built and worked.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Creator | a.l. bancroft & company, smith, f. a., glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Salem, Oregon, drawn in 1876. 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 | 9,040 × 6,368 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Salem, Oregon 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490432 |
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