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Voting precincts of Whitman County, (ca. 1920)

Washington State University Libraries

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Title Voting precincts of Whitman County, (ca. 1920)
Identifier http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu158 WSU 158 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,318
Date ca. 1920 2000 - 2002
Description 1 map: blueprint, 41 x 41 cm. Map lists voting precincts of incorporated town. WSU MASC copy has annotations and some water damage. Whitman county, located in south-eastern Washington, is named after Marcus Whitman, a missionary who was killed by Indians in 1847. The first white visitors to Whitman County would have been members of the Lewis & Clark expedition, in 1805. Whitman County was first settled in the 1860s, and gradually converted from a livestock based economy to agriculture...
Subject Whitman County--Maps; Pullman (Wash.)--Maps; Voting--Washington State--Whitman County--Maps
Type Maps; Blueprints
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County
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

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