IMAGE
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Item Info
- Title:
- Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.
- Photographer:
- National Park Service
- Publisher:
- Anderson's Scenic Postcards
- Publisher Location:
- Portland, OR
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1978
- Approximated Date:
- yes
- Description:
- Postcard of Fort Vancouver as it would have looked in 1845. | Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver, Wa. 98661. Founded in 1825, Fort Vancouver was the headquarters and supply depot for the Hundon's Bay Company in the Northwest. For 20 years it was also the social, political, and economic center of the Northwest. Declining fur returns and problems with Americans led tot he closing of the fort in 1860. Neglect and several fires destroyed the entire fort by 1866.
- Subjects:
- forts buildings trees boats mountains rivers picture postcards
- Location:
- Vancouver
- Latitude:
- 45.624776
- Longitude:
- -122.662087
- Source:
- PG 9, Postcard Collection, University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, http://www.lib.uidaho.edu/special-collections/
- Source Identifier:
- pg_9_84_01a
- Type:
- Image;StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.", Northwest Historical Postcards Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/postcards/items/nwpostcards1700.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Educational use includes non-commercial use of text and images in materials for teaching and research purposes. Digital reproduction rights granted by University of Idaho Library. For other uses beyond educational use, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/