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1 map; 24 x 25 cm.
"Capt. Pingstone was specially commissioned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to make a reconnoissance of the Columbia River, from the neighborhood of Fort Colville to Ainsworth, and report on the navigability for...
1881-11-24
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1 map: 14 x 8 cm. Scale: 1 in. = 4 miles
This map comes from a tourism brochure, a pocket guide to the state of Washington, published specifically for the "automobile tourist." The 46 page brochure includes automotive maps of major cities,...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 39 x 74 cm. Scale: 25 in. = 32 miles. Inset: Profile of river channels from Elliott Bay to Commencement Bay. Cutoff channels, levees or dikes, contours, local survey section numbers, and margin of flood plain all indicated on map.
In...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 11 x 21 cm. Kennewick started as a railroad town in 1883 when a railroad bridge was being constructed across the river there. The town was platted in 1892, and boomed in the early 1900s with the construction of numerous irrigation...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 17 x 14 cm.
Picturesque America was a series, sold initially in twenty parts but later sold as two bound volumes, of travelogues of various parts of America accompanied by "pictorial delineations of the scenery", generally done by...
1872-11-24
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1 bird's-eye view: col., 14 x 19 cm. Inset: Oregon
When the Post Office denied the proposed young town of Maxwell, Oregon, permission to use that name, they were forced to choose another. They chose 'Hermiston.'...
2024-11-24
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1 map: col., 22 x 19 cm. Scale: 1.1 in = 10000 ft. Area of third unit colored in red. Blue lines indicate main distributing canals; dashed blue lines indicate pipe lines; hachures indicate United Sates reserves. Map No. 9967. Modified from...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 17 x 23 cm. Inset: [North-Central Oregon] Redmond, Oregon was platted in 1905, near both a planned canal and a planned railroad. The town was named after two local settlers.
2024-11-24
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1 map: col., 30 x 21 cm.
This is one side of a tourist brochure promoting travel to Mount Rainier National Park from both Seattle and Portland. Its fairly representative of the changes taking place at the time, as distance travel began to be...
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1 bird's-eye map: 15 x 23 cm.
This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
In 1903, Fairhaven merged with the...
1893-11-24
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1 map; 15 x 23 cm.
This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.
1893-11-24
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1 map: hand col., 46 x 52 cm.
The map identifies rivers, lakes, and mountains. Indian tribes and populations are identified. It includes notes and dates from the routes of several exploratory expeditions, including Lewis & Clark. It also...
2024-11-24
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1 map: hand col., 46 x 52 cm.
The map identifies forts, rivers, and mountains. Indian tribes and populations are identified. It includes notes and dates from the routes of several exploratory expeditions, including Lewis & Clark. It also...
2024-11-24
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1 sketch: 7 x 18 cm. This sketch comes from the author's book on his travels, which includes a journey from Northern California to Victoria, Canada, during which the author passes through the Washington Territory.
1874-11-24
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1 sketch; 10 x 11 cm. This sketch comes from the author's book on his travels, which includes a journey from Northern California to Victoria, Canada, during which the author passes through the Washington Territory.
1874-11-24
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1 view ; 11 x 16 cm. Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce names for the...
1882-11-24
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1 map; 23 x 28 cm.
At the direction of the U.S. Government, Captain Randolph Marcy prepared a handbook for western emigrants. This book, "The Prairie Traveler", proved an invaluable aid for those traveling across America by wagon. In addition...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 28 x 46 cm.
Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the Columbia, and though they did...
2024-11-24
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1 map: col., 21 x 50 cm.
<br>Henry Warre was sent by the British government to visit Northwest America and make notes on the area from a military point of view. At the time, America and Britain were engaged in a very...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 42 x 39 cm.
Scale: 2 inches = 45 miles.
Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the...
2024-11-24
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1 watercolor view: col., 28 x 35 cm.
Oregon City was first settled in 1829. Dr. John McLoughlin is generally credited as the town's founding father, having constructed an early lumber mill there. Oregon City was an early capitol of the...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 10 x 18 cm.
In the end of October in 1805 the Lewis & Clark expedition reached the Schutes of the Columbia, in the area today known as Cascade Locks. The expedition was forced to portage around these falls on November 1st, and again...
2024-11-24
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1 watercolor view: col., 20 x 31 cm.
This portrays Astoria, Oregon, during the year 1845.
Astoria was first settled in 1811, when members of the Pacific Fur Company established a Fort and a trading post there. In 1813, after the War of 1812,...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 10 x 18 cm.
The Lewis & Clark expedition reached the mouth of the Columbia River in November, 1805. After a several week delay due to inclement weather, the expedition mapped the area thoroughly before choosing to spend the winter a...
2024-11-24
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1 map: 43 x 41 cm.
Scale: 1 inch = 50 miles.
Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the...
2024-11-24
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