Wood River Valley, Idaho, 1884 – 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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This antique map of Wood River Valley, Idaho, 1884 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Wood River Valley with Hailey in the foreground, 1884
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Wood River Valley, Idaho, 1884
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Wood River Valley in 1884 was a silver mining district in south-central Idaho, where prospectors had staked claims in the hills around Hailey and Ketchum only a few years earlier. Ore hauled by freight wagon and stagecoach gave way to rail when the Oregon Short Line's branch reached the valley in 1883, turning the settlements from remote camps into a supply point. Hailey, the seat of Alturas County, held the courthouse, banks, and stores, while the mining camps up the valley relied on it for goods and news. Miners, teamsters, and merchants arrived from the eastern states, Europe, and China, and mining work was hard and often seasonal. For residents, the crowded main streets, mills, and roads were the town and the living they depended on.
| Created / published | 1884 |
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| Creator | browning, a. e., collier & cleaveland lith. co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Wood River Valley, Idaho, 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--Idaho |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,320 × 6,560 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Wood River Valley with Hailey in the foreground, 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488518 |
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