Title: Boise City: Principal Businesses, Houses, and Private Residences
Date Drawn: 1878
Artist: Charles Ostner
Collection: Idaho State Library and Archives
This is a view of Boise, created by Austrian born Ostner, looking south from above Fort Boise. This was the most popular map of Boise in lithographs as it depicts the river as well as the huge expanse of open land on the other side. City boosters used such pictures to show that while the urban area was well developed, there was still plenty of room for further growth. The lithographer inexplicably changed the poplar trees in this sketch to evergreens.