Record Details
Washington and Oregon (1853)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Washington and Oregon (1853) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=uw088. WSU Version: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu324 uwm88; G4240 1853 .J1; wsu 324 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,101 |
| Creator | J.H. Colton & Co. |
| Date | 1853 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | New York : J.H. Colton & Co. |
| Description | 1 map : col. ; 29 x 36 cm., on sheet 37 x 44 cm. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1853 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Text about Mexico on verso. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Plate no. 55. Scale [ca. 1:3,500,000] (W 125°--W 109°/N 50°--N 41°). In 1852, a group of farmers met at Cowlitz Prairie (northeast of Astoria) to discuss... |
| Subject | Northwest, Pacific -- Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | Pacific Northwest |
| Rights | This image may be downloaded or reproduced for research and educational purposes without prior permission; please give credit to the University of Washington Libraries Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives Division. Any commercial use of this material is prohibited without prior permission from the University Libraries. Contact speccoll@u.washington.edu |
| Format | Original WSU map was photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | University of Washington Libraries Map Collection; Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, WSU Libraries |
| Language | English |
