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Washington, (1925). Cram's unrivaled atlas of the world
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Washington, (1925). Cram's unrivaled atlas of the world |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu168 WSU 168 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,319 |
| Creator | George F. Cram Company. |
| Date | 1925 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Chicago : G.F. Cram, 1925. |
| Description | 1 map: col., 30 x 37 cm. Scale 1.5"=40 miles. Shows electric lines. From page 71 of Cram's unrivaled atlas of the world. George F. Cram, a Union soldier who fought in Sherman's Army during the Civil War, returned home in 1867 to Evanston, Illinois to begin a map and atlas company with his uncle, Rufus Blanchard. By 1875, Cram owned his own publishing company in Chicago and soon rose to success by using a wax engraving process (such as perfected by the Rand McNally Company, his greatest... |
| Subject | Washington (State)--Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | 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 |
| Relation | Is part of Cram's unrivaled atlas of the world : complete series of colored maps showing the new boundaries of all foreign states and their dependencies--maps of each state in the United States including newly organized counties and other changes--New revised maps of the principal cities of the United States--Series of historical maps of Europe 3000 B.C. down to the present date--Chronological story of the World War with large scale colored maps, and beautiful illustrations from original photographs--Geographical changes caused by the War--Valuable statistical tables--Descriptive gazetteer of each state and foreign country--All maps completely indexed showing population figures according to the new federal census. |
