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Map of Washington Territory and Oregon with portions of the adjoining territories with the route of the Seattle & Walla-Walla Railroad, (1874)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of Washington Territory and Oregon with portions of the adjoining territories with the route of the Seattle & Walla-Walla Railroad, (1874) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu176 WSU 176; HE2791 .S42 1874 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,344 |
| Creator | Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company |
| Date | 1874 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Seattle, W.T. : Intelligencer Book and Job Printing Office |
| Description | 1 map; 55 x 42 cm. When the Northern Pacific selected Tacoma as the western terminus for its transcontinental route in 1873, Seattle residents took matters into their own hands. The city of Seattle incorporated its own railway, the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad, with the express intent of building its own route over the Snoqualmie pass and across Washington to Walla Walla. The Railroad never made it to Snoqualmie Pass, much less to Walla Walla. It did make it up the valley as far... |
| Subject | Pacific railroads -- Maps; Railroads -- West (U.S.); Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company; Washington Territory |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Washington Territory; United States--Oregon; 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 |
| Relation | Is part of Report of the chief engineer of the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad and Transportation Company : to the trustees and stockholders, November, 1874. |
