Eli Sheldon Glover (1845-1909) was an inventor and artist who was active in San Francisco, Chicago and Tacoma. Many of his works are perspective maps, and he traveled throughout the west drawing "birds-eye" views of newly developed cities.

This image of Seattle was drawn by Mr. Glover in 1879, and is the second-earliest overview map of the city known to exist. It shows a few blocks of commercial businesses, lumber yards, railroads, and shipping wharfs, a decade before the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 destroyed much of what is visbile.

Caption information source: "Bird's-eye View of the City of Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 1878," Digital Collections, University Libraries, University of Washington, https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/maps/id/64/; "Map, Bird's eye view of the city of Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 1787," Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/75696660.