Record Details
Sketch no 4 Skagit & Wenachee line Johnsons report April 1869
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Sketch no 4 Skagit & Wenachee line Johnsons report April 1869 |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu174 WSU 174; HE2791.N855 J64 1869 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,341 |
| Creator | Johnson, Edwin Ferry, 1803-1872 |
| Date | 1869 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Hartford : Press of Case, Lockwood and Brainard |
| Description | 1 map; 23 x 32 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield Pass, renamed to Stampede Pass, which is not one of the four initially surveyed. |
| Subject | Pacific railroads -- Explorations and surveys -- Maps; Railroads -- West (U.S.) |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Skagit 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 |
| Relation | Is part of Report of Edwin F. Johnson, engineer-in-chief, to the Board of Directors, April, 1869, and reports of surveys, executed in 1867, by Gen. Ira Spaulding, chief engineer of the Minnesota Division, and Gen. James Tilton, chief engineer of the Washington Division. |
