Record Details
Northern Pacific Railway, (1883)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Northern Pacific Railway, (1883) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu178 WSU 178; HE1009 .S3 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,346 |
| Creator | Saint Paul (Minn.) |
| Date | 1883 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | St. Paul, Brown & Treacy |
| Description | 1 map; 12 x 22 cm. In 1876 and 1877, the Northern Pacific purchased a controlling interest in the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which gave them a connection to the railroads of the Midwest, and which assured St. Paul am major shipping role when the Northern Pacific's transcontinental route was finished. The brochure from which this map comes is a self-promotional pamphlet published by the city of St. Paul, and concerned almost uniformly with that city's assets, excepting a small... |
| Subject | Pacific railroads -- Maps; Railroads -- West (U.S.) |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State); United States--Oregon; United States--California; United States--Nevada; United States--Wyoming; United States--Nebraska; United States--Utah; |
| 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 Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific Railway. Grand opening, September, 1883. |
