Record Details
Tshimakain Mission, (ca. 1843)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Tshimakain Mission, (ca. 1843) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu186 WSU 186 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,354 |
| Creator | Geyer, Charles A. |
| Date | ca. 1843 2000 - 2002 |
| Description | 1 bird's-eye view ms.; 31 x 51 cm. A drawing of the mission at Tshimakain by Charles Andrew Geyer. Elkanah (1805-1877) and Mary Richardson Walker (1811- 1897) were one of six missionary couples (plus one single man) sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to the Oregon Mission. The Walkers and one other couple, Cushing and Myra Eells, established the mission at Tshimakain, near the present day town of Ford, Washington, to work with the Spokane Indians. The house in... |
| Subject | Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Missions; Missions -- Washington (State) -- Maps, Manuscript |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State)-- |
| 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 Papers of Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker, 1821-1938, Cage 57 |
