Pendleton, Oregon, 1890 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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: Pendleton, Oregon, 1890, 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 Pendleton, Umatilla County, Ore
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Pendleton, Oregon, 1890
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Pendleton in 1890 was a wheat and stock town of frame and brick storefronts laid out along the Umatilla River in northeastern Oregon. Grain wagons rolled in from the dry plateau to the railroad warehouses, and the town's business houses, hotels, and livery stables depended on that seasonal traffic. The East Oregonian, the local newspaper whose publishing company issued this map, reported on the town's growth and its civic disputes from its own offices, which gives the view a local origin. Residents would have known their town first as a stopping point for freight and farm families, and the street grid drawn here shows how far the settlement had spread beyond its original core.
| Created / published | 1890 |
|---|---|
| Creator | east oregonian publishing co, dakin publishing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Pendleton, Oregon, drawn in 1890. 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 | 8,528 × 6,480 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Pendleton, Umatilla County, Ore |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-490430 |
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