Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Grays Harbor and the Olympic peninsula, (1924) |
Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu182 WSU 182; F897.G84 G73 1924 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,352 |
Creator | Greater Grays Harbor Development Bureau, Montesano, Wash. |
Date | 1924 2000 - 2002 |
Publisher | [Montesano, Wash. : Montesano Vidette] |
Description | 1 map: 22 x 20 cm. This is the back cover of a Grays Harbor promotional brochure. Grays Harbor was named for Captain Robert Gray, who discovered it in 1792. It was a perhaps at its heyday when this was published- a booming lumber town, having been a major producer of mass-produced wooden steamships during the first World War. This was not to last, however, as the onset of the Great Depression was about to, if not already beginning to, severely curtail the lumber industry. The... |
Subject | Grays Harbor County (Wash.) -- Maps |
Type | Maps |
Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor 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 Grays Harbor, Washington : Pacific Northwest |