{"product_id":"washington-in-1909-seattle-spokane-tacoma","title":"Washington in 1909 - Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis map of Washington was published in 1909 by George F. Cram to accompany Davis' New Commercial Encyclopedia of the Pacific Northwest, a reference work compiled by Ellis A. Davis covering Washington, Oregon, and Idaho together for the region's businessmen and boosters. Cram's workshop rendered the state across two full pages in vivid color, with relief shown by hachures and administrative divisions, cities, towns, railroads, roads, and rivers all set out in careful detail, a noticeably denser treatment than the sparser railroad-focused maps the firm had produced a generation earlier. By 1909 Washington had been a state for two decades, its population and industry expanding rapidly on the strength of Puget Sound shipping, timber, and the transcontinental rail lines that by then crisscrossed the state in every direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeattle, Olympia, and Spokane are all named on the sheet, the three anchoring the state's commercial geography from Puget Sound to the dry plateau country of the east. The Cascade Range is drawn running the length of the state, separating the wet, forested west from the wheat and cattle country beyond, while the map also traces Indian reservations, a reminder of the federal land policies still shaping settlement patterns in the early 20th century. The Pacific Ocean forms the state's western edge, with Puget Sound cutting deep inland to give Seattle and the surrounding ports their sheltered anchorage. Railroads thread through nearly every county, a measure of how thoroughly the rail network had matured since Washington's territorial decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis map makes a natural gift for anyone with ties to Seattle, Spokane, or the wider Puget Sound region, or for a collector who wants Washington shown as a fully established state rather than a territory still finding its shape. Washington buyers should note we also carry the state as mapped by Cram and Rand McNally in the 1870s and 1880s, all still territorial-era editions: this 1909 sheet stands apart as our most developed view, produced two decades after statehood with cities, railroads, and reservations all fully mapped. It is available unframed in a full range of sizes, from a compact study print to a larger statement piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711040843,"sku":"SKU1709-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711073611,"sku":"SKU1709-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711106379,"sku":"SKU1709-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711139147,"sku":"SKU1709-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711171915,"sku":"SKU1709-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711204683,"sku":"SKU1709-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711237451,"sku":"SKU1709-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711270219,"sku":"SKU1709-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58525711302987,"sku":"SKU1709-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1709.jpg?v=1789752123","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/washington-in-1909-seattle-spokane-tacoma","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}