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Original Birdseye View Artwork Showing Proposed Sites for a Portland Exposition in 1925 By Noted Artist Fred Routledge
Rare original original artwork for a birdseye view of the Portland area, drawn in connection with the proposal to host an Exposition in Portland in 1925, drawn by Fred Routledge.
We date the view based upon the significant discussions in various Portland journals concerning the various proposed sites for the Exposition, which appeared in the Newspapers in 1921. This view was almost certainly prepared in connection with the consideration of the these sites and possibly in connection with a host city proposal.
The central part of the map consists of a birdseye view of the Portland area, extending from Oswego in the south to Vancouver, Washington. The predominating feature of the main map is the location of several proposed sites for the 1925 Exposition:
- Hayden Island Site
- Rocky Butte Site
- ???n Valley Site
- Sellwood Site
- East Moreland Site
The view is ringed surrounded by inset vignettes, including
- a view of Portland from the east side of the Columbia River
- A view toward Mt. Tabor
- A view of the Proposed Tunnel Through Portland Heights
- A view of Portland from South of Ross Island on the Willamette River
Fred Routledge
Fred Routledge (1871-1936) was an Oregon artist and pictorial mapmaker, who spent much of his professional life as a correspondent for the Morning Oregonian. His career lasted from the 1890s to the early 1930s. Routledge was a well regarded artist, who received awards for his paintings, including a first prize at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. His ephemeral work as a pictorial cartographer was also very well regarded.
Routledge was born in Abilene, Kansas, raised in Rockford, Illinois, and settled in the Portland area in 1886 with his family. He began working as an illustrator with the West Shore publication before its demise in 1891, thereafter finding wor at the Oregonian in 1895. The January 1, 1896 "Where Rolls the Oregon," is his first work of significant note.
Rarity
There is no record of the printing or other publication of this view.
Fred Routledge (1871-1936) was an Oregon artist and pictorial mapmaker, who spent much of his professional life as a correspondent for the Morning Oregonian. His career lasted from the 1890s to the early 1930s. Routledge was a well regarded artist, who received awards for his paintings, including a first prize at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. His ephemeral work as a pictorial cartographer was also very well regarded.
Routledge was born in Abilene, Kansas, raised in Rockford, Illinois, and settled in the Portland area in 1886 with his family. He began working as an illustrator with the West Shore publication before its demise in 1891, thereafter finding wor at the Oregonian in 1895. The January 1, 1896 "Where Rolls the Oregon," is his first work of significant note.