Price: $775.00
SKU: 84792
ARTIST: Merritt Houghton
MEDIUM: Photogravure
DATE: c.1915.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 1/2 x 20" (291 x 508 mm) plus title and margins.
DESCRIPTION: Drawn by M.D. Haughton, Spokane. A unusual bird's-eye view of the city. Several place names are given within the view. In the distance on the left is Woodland Heights. In the foreground is "Original Windsor Gardens", Washington Park & Stearns Acre Park. An electric trolley is shown running down the center of the road in the lower foreground. Merritt Dana "M.D." Houghton, a little known western artist who started working in the early days of Wyoming Territory (organized as a U.S. Territory on July 25, 1868), was born in 1846 in Otsego, Michigan. He came to Wyoming in the 1870s. He settled in Laramie in 1875 and later lived in both Encampment and Saratoga. The town of Encampment evolved from a fur trapper rendezvous site, and Saratoga, known for its spring water, began as a stage stop. Houghton lived and worked throughout Wyoming Territory recording forts, ranches, mining and logging operations in pencil, pen, ink and watercolor. He left Wyoming in the early 1900’s and died in 1918 in Seattle, Washington. The Library of Congress has Houghton’s circa 1915 bird’s-eye view titled "Spokane, Wash., relief map of northern and central portions". It is likely that this view was produced at the same time. Rare.
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CONDITION: Good condition save for two tears in right edge. B/W.
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