Title:
View of New Tacoma and Mount Rainier, Puget Sound, Washington Territory: terminus of Northern Pacific Railroad
Creator/Contributor:
Glover, Edwin S. (active ca. 1876-ca. 1877), artist and publisher (artist and publisher)
A.L. Bancroft & Company (active ca. 1872-ca. 1973), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
c1878
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0898--D
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
48.8 x 74 cm.
Content/Description:
Elevated view of town situated on Commencement Bay; wharf, depot, and saw mill at left; Northern Pacific Railroad (N.P.R.R.)
at right; heavily wooded area and snow-covered mountain in distance.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Drawn and published by E.S. Glover, Portland, Oregon/sketched Feb[ruary] 1878; (LR, above
title): Entered... 1878... ; (LC, below title): Altitude of Mount Rainer, 14,400 feet; (LR): A.L. Bancroft & Co., lith., San
Francisco, Cal[ifornia].
Subjects:
Bays;
Mountains;
Northwest, Pacific;
Railroads;
Washington (State);
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Cityscapes;
Lithographs, color