Record Details
page 476
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_019a http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,108 |
| Title | page 476 |
| Relation | Columbia River Centennial |
| Date | 2004-03-02 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from black and white photocopies using Dosadi Acquire Version 2.57 on Ricoh IS450se document feed scanner. Scanned images saved as grayscale and as 2 tone black and white multi-page tiffs. 320,195 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR black and white multi-page tiffs and generate text files for full text access. Grayscale multi-page tiffs split with libtif tiffsplit script. Individual tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0 : cropped, rotated, reduced in size, and JPEGs created |
| Description | THE COLUMBIA RIVER CENTENNIAL. NEAR the mouth of the Columbia River lies the flourishing little town of Astoria. Interesting to New-Yorkers as the first fur-trading station of the elder Astor, the foundation of his great wealth, and named by him in 1810, Astoria is even more interesting to dwellers on the Columbia River as the strategic point held alternately by England as Fort George, and by the United States under its original name. Astorians have one main object, namely, to live until... |
