Jacksonville, Oregon, 1883 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Jacksonville, Oregon, 1883. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Jacksonville and the Rogue River Valley, Oregon 1883
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Jacksonville, Oregon, 1883
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Jacksonville, Oregon, in 1883 was the seat of Jackson County and still lived off the gold that prospectors had found in the creeks around it in 1851. Its brick storefronts and houses clustered in the narrow valley of Jackson Creek, where miners, merchants, lawyers, and county officials shared the streets. Freight wagons hauled supplies up from the Rogue River Valley, and the town's newspapers and churches were the center of local politics and social life. Within a few years, however, the railroad that was pushing south through the valley would bypass Jacksonville for the newer town of Medford, and the county seat's commercial importance would slowly drain away.
| Created / published | 1883 |
|---|---|
| Creator | walpole, fred a., beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Jacksonville, Oregon, drawn in 1883. 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 | 7,344 × 5,296 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Jacksonville and the Rogue River Valley, Oregon 1883 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490427 |
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