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Stock# 69754
Description
With A Fine Early Portland Birdseye View
Scarce early promotional publication, issued by the Oregon Immigration Board.
Includes a large colored birdseye view of Portland an 14 smaller images of buildings and street scenes.
Includes a panoramic view of Portland from the North West section of town including horse drawn carriages, bicyclists etc. with ships on the Willamette and Mount Hood in the distance.
Fine example of this rare West Shore published booster magazine for the Pacific Northwest, this view draws attention to the many impressive mansions of the wealthy, when Portland was the "Queen City of the Northwest." A notation at lower left notes the 1888 population as 60,000.
Condition Description
24 pp. including self-wrappers. With folding color lithographed panorama of Portland (11 x 31"); 6 full-page duotone lithographs (each with 2 images); lithographs on front & rear wrappers. 11x8 1/2.