Record Details
Johnson's Washington Oregon and Idaho, (1863)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Johnson's Washington Oregon and Idaho, (1863) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu5 WSU 005 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,202 |
| Creator | Johnson and Ward |
| Date | 1864 2000 - 2002 |
| Description | 1 map: hand col., 35 x 46 cm. Map publisher Alvin Jewitt Johnson purchased steel plate engravings and copyrights from mapmaker J.H. Colton sometime around 1859. To conserve the plates, Johnson transferred the information from steel to lithographic stone, making updated adjustments/corrections when needed. He also added decorative borders and colors applied by hand to the maps. This map, showing the borders of Washington Territory, the State of Oregon, and the newly formed Territory of... |
| Subject | Washington (State)--Boundaries; Washington Territory; Oregon--Maps; Idaho--Maps; Idaho Territory; Montana |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | Washington (State); Oregon; Idaho |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. 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 | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
