Record Details
Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, (1867)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana, (1867) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu11 WSU 11 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,266 |
| Creator | S. Augustus Mitchell. Jr. |
| Date | 1867 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. |
| Description | 1 map: col., 36 x 29 cm. In 1831, S. Augustus Mitchell, a teacher from Connecticut, began a publishing firm in Philadelphia. By 1845, Mitchell purchased the copyright to The New Universal Atlas, the product of one of the fathers of American mapmakers--Henry Shenck Tanner. One of the first to employ the printing method of lithography, Mitchell was also one of the early users of a chromolithographed, decorative border. When Mitchell retired from the business in 1860, his son, S. Augustus, Jr.... |
| Subject | Oregon--Maps; Washington (State)--Maps; Washington Territory; Idaho--Maps; Montana--Maps; Mitchell, S. Augustus; Mitchell, S. Augustus Jr. |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Oregon; United States--Washington (State); United States--Idaho; United States--Montana |
| 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 |
