Tacoma 3, 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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This antique map of Tacoma 3, Washington, 1884 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of the city of Tacoma, W.T., Puget-Sound, county seat of Pierce Cty. 1884
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Tacoma 3, Washington, 1884
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Tacoma, Washington, in 1884 was a small waterfront town on Commencement Bay, still years away from the boom that its selection as a Northern Pacific Railroad terminus would bring. Its economy rested on sawmills and shipping along the bay, and the lumber trade drew workers and merchants who were competing with Seattle, the larger town up Puget Sound. The community was incorporated as a city that year, and its civic life was taken up with street, water, and property questions. In late 1885 Tacoma's leaders and white residents drove out most of the town's Chinese population, an episode that still marks the period for historians. Residents of the day would have known the town mainly as a mill port with an uncertain railroad future.
| 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 Tacoma 3, 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 | 9,936 × 4,640 px · prints to 33 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of the city of Tacoma, W.T., Puget-Sound, county seat of Pierce Cty. 1884 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-491303 |
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