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page 140

Oregon Digital

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Title page 140
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 290.551 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Urbanization has not progressed as far in this subdivision as in some other parts of the Columbia River Basin. A significant proportion of the total population in 1940, however, was classed as urban (36 percent). Boise, the capital of Idaho and its largest city, had 26,130 people. Other important cities are Nampa, Idaho, 12,149; Baker, Oreg., 9,342; La Grange, Oreg., 7,747; and Caldwell, Idaho, 7,272. Most of the population (64 percent in 1940) is in the rural areas. Wartime shifts in...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1629

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