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Description

Scarce early pictorial highway map by Fred A. Routledge, Oregon's greatest mapmaker, illustrated with photographs of a number of the most famous bridges of the era between Los Angeles and Portland.

Despite the title of the map, the area covered reached to San Diego and Tia Juana in the south, up to Victoria and Vancouver and Mount Baker.

Condition Description
Folding map with minor wear at folds. Printed front and back.
Reference
https://www.ohs.org/research-and-library/oregon-historical-quarterly/upload/03_Clinton_Routledge-Maps_117_1_Spring-2016.pdf
Fred A. Routledge Biography

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.