Cheney, 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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Step back in time with Cheney, Washington, 1884, an antique map rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Cheney, Wash. Ter., county seat of Spokane County, 1884
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Cheney, Washington, 1884
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Cheney, Washington, in 1884 was a young railroad town in the Spokane country of Washington Territory, platted only a few years earlier beside the Northern Pacific Railway. The Northern Pacific had completed its main line to Puget Sound in 1883, and towns along its track relied on trains for freight, mail, and new settlers. Cheney's trade rested on the wheat and grain farms spreading across the surrounding plains, which needed depots and warehouses to move harvests to market. Homes, stores, and churches were going up on streets still fresh from the surveyors, while the territory waited for statehood, which came in 1889. The town's fortunes ran along the rails that defined it.
| 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 Cheney, 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 | 6,776 × 4,472 px · prints to 23 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Cheney, Wash. Ter., county seat of Spokane County, 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491289 |
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