Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Map of Oregon and Washington, (1873) |
Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu9 WSU 9 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,234 |
Creator | Gray, F.A. |
Date | 1873 2000 - 2002 |
Publisher | [Philadelphia: O.W. (Ormando Willis) Gray & Son, 1873 |
Description | 1 map: col., 35 x 42 cm. This map shows the borders of the Territory of Washington (1853-1889) and Oregon State (territory from 1848 to 1859). F.A. Gray, the author of this map, is the son of Ormando Willis Gray, a mapmaker in Philadelphia. Very little is known of their partnership. However, O.W. Gray, a civil engineer and topographical surveyor by training, did earlier work with the better known author of state atlases--Mr. Henry F. Walling. Gray and Walling worked together on three... |
Subject | Oregon--Maps; Washington (State)--Maps; Washington Territory; Oregon--Maps; Stedman, Brown & Lyon Publishers; Walling, Henry F. |
Type | Maps |
Coverage | United States--Oregon; United States--Washington (State) |
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 |