1878Seattle, Washington
Bird’s eye view of the city of Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington Territory
E. S. Glover; A. L. Bancroft & Company.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
1878·Seattle, Washington
Bird’s eye view of the city of Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington Territory
E. S. Glover; A. L. Bancroft & Company.
Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
What this plate shows
Seattle in 1878, still Washington Territory: a small grid on Elliott Bay, ships, mills, forest at the edge of town. Glover’s lithograph from an imagined height. Not the later skyline, and not a photograph.
- Image type
- Bird's-eye illustration / lithograph
- Source
- Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, panoramic maps, item 75696660. Direct scale of that raster. Not a redraw.
- License
- Public domain.