In early January, I wrote about one my favorite images of Seattle, August Koch’s 1891 Bird’s Eye View. I’d now like to return to another similar map: Eli Sheldon Glover’s 1878 Bird’s-Eye View of the City of Seattle. An itinerant artist, Glover produced similar panoramas of Tacoma, Portland, Walla Walla, Olympia, and Port Townsend. Glover’s is the first of this style of illustration done for my hometown. Just 3,200 people lived in Seattle when Glover executed his drawing.
This was wonderful to listen to. Any and all Seattle history is much appreciated. I have looked at a copy of this map many times and was never quite insightful enough to make the best use of it. Thank you for pointing out so many interesting things and refreshing my desire to learn more!
I love any kind of map and this post was particularly interesting to me. I have started listening to the podcast since I like to hear David's voice describe the various features; however, listening to this one during a walk left my mind reeling and I had to get those maps in front of me to fully appreciate what he was describing!
Thank you so much for sharing the details of this interesting, if slightly quirky map.
I am always reminding myself of how fast this area has changed once white man landed. Little thought of conservation. Oops there go the salmon, there go the trees, there goes the fresh water, there goes the clean air....and that is to say little of the native populations. sigh
I’m so interested in “C. L. Lawton’s Seattle Nursery … included 50 varieties of apple, 40 varieties of pear, and 11 varieties of peach.” This is 10 years before the great Seattle fire when the Pipers moved to what is now Carkeek Park and planted what is now Piper’s Orchard.
This was wonderful to listen to. Any and all Seattle history is much appreciated. I have looked at a copy of this map many times and was never quite insightful enough to make the best use of it. Thank you for pointing out so many interesting things and refreshing my desire to learn more!
I am happy that my observations fueled yours!
I love any kind of map and this post was particularly interesting to me. I have started listening to the podcast since I like to hear David's voice describe the various features; however, listening to this one during a walk left my mind reeling and I had to get those maps in front of me to fully appreciate what he was describing!
I hope the maps helped.
The maps & photo were awesome and the links lead me down a more in-depth (and enjoyable) look at similar maps at the Library of Congress site.
Thank you so much for sharing the details of this interesting, if slightly quirky map.
I am always reminding myself of how fast this area has changed once white man landed. Little thought of conservation. Oops there go the salmon, there go the trees, there goes the fresh water, there goes the clean air....and that is to say little of the native populations. sigh
Lots of changes but fortunately lots of nature still around.
I’m so interested in “C. L. Lawton’s Seattle Nursery … included 50 varieties of apple, 40 varieties of pear, and 11 varieties of peach.” This is 10 years before the great Seattle fire when the Pipers moved to what is now Carkeek Park and planted what is now Piper’s Orchard.