This collection includes maps from the Special Collections. The collection includes maps associated with overland and Pacific Exploration, as well as maps documenting settlement and urban growth in the Pacific Northwest.
32.9 x 90.2 cm. A map showing wharves along Portland's Willamette River issued by the Port of Portland in February, 1912.
1912
From the NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL ATLAS by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis, published in Philadelphia in 1804. 25 x 20 cm.
1804
Laid down from the Journal &
1806
This map is a close copy of a map an anonymous map published in THE TRAVELS OF CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARKE (Philadelpia, 1809), which was itself based on Samuel Lewis's "Louisiana" in the Arrowsmith and Lewis Atlas of 1804. This version of the map was engraved by Samuel John Neele for THE TRAVELS OF CAPTS. LEWIS & CLARKE (London, 1809). 25 x 20 cm.
1809
From the NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL ATLAS by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis, published in Philadelphia in 1804. Engraved by Henry S. Tanner. 25 x 21 cm.
1804
55.8 x 43.4 cm. A map for a proposed voters' initiative to limit liquor sales to the downtown core of Portland.
1909
From the NEW AND ELEGANT GENERAL ATLAS by Aaron Arrowsmith and Samuel Lewis, published in Philadelphia in 1804. Based on Arrowsmith's Map of America. Engraved by Jones and ruled by Hooker. 20 x 25 cm.
1804
This map was issued with Jonathan Carver's book, "Travels through the Interior Parts of North America." This map is from the 1779 edition. 33 x 36 cm.
1778
From the first volume of THE HISTORY OF LOUISIANA (1763) by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz. Engraved by Palmer. 34 x 26 cm.
1757
Copied by Samuel Lewis from the original by William Clark. Engraved by Samuel Harrison. Originally issued with the first official account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION, published in Philadelphia in 1814. 30 x 70 cm
1814
A map of the Northern Pacific Ocean, scanned from the 1967 reproduction of the original 1791 "Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North-West Coast of America" book.
1791
A map of the northwest coast of America and northeast coast of Asia, scanned from the 1967 reproduction of the original 1791 "Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the North-West Coast of America" book.
1791