Record Details
Map of the Great Northern Railway system showing through See America First Route from Chicago and Kansas City, (1915)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of the Great Northern Railway system showing through See America First Route from Chicago and Kansas City, (1915) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu181 WSU 181; HE2728 .G74 W4 1915 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,353 |
| Creator | Great Northern Railway |
| Date | 1915 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | [St. Paul, Minn.?] : Great Northern Railway |
| Description | 1 map; 10 x 23 cm. Map shows double track and proposed lines. The Great Northern finished its transcontinental route in 1893, crossing the cascades at Stevens' Pass. This map comes from a tourism brochure, promoting cross-country railroad travel as a means for easterners to visit the western states. |
| Subject | Railroads -- West (U.S.); Railroad travel -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps; Great Northern Railway Company (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; United States--Missouri; United States--Illinois; |
| 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 Western trips for eastern people, 1915. |
