Sportsman and Tourist Map of Olympic Peninsula, WA, circa 1930

About this postcard

A pictorial map of the Olympic Peninsula presents the region as a playground for sportsmen and tourists. Towns, roads, waterways, and landmarks are packed into a single view stretching from the outer coast and Neah Bay across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Puget Sound and Mount Rainier, with Seattle, Olympia, Anacortes, and Victoria, British Columbia, marked among the settlements. Small icons of trees, animals, and buildings dot the landscape, giving the map an illustrated character. The map reflects an era when the peninsula's forests, mountains, and shoreline were promoted for hunting, fishing, and scenic driving. It gathers the scattered communities and routes of western Washington into a traveler's overview, with the Canadian side of the strait included as part of the same touring region.