Record Details
Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines, (1883)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of the Northern Pacific Railroad, its branches and allied lines, (1883) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu189 WSU 189; HE2791 .N853x 1883 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,358 |
| Creator | Northern Pacific Railroad |
| Date | 1883 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | New York : Julius Bien & Co. lith |
| Description | 1 map: col., 34 x 73 cm. Scale 1"=80 miles. Map shows Northern Pacific Main Line, Northern Pacific Branches, Oregon and Transcontinental Lines, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Lines, and uncompleted roads. After the initial burst of construction by the Northern Pacific in 1870-1871 a faltering economy began to affect the Railroad, and by 1872 financial disaster had occurred and construction was halted. In 1873, the company failed in a financial panic. Between 1873 and 1875, the... |
| Subject | Railroads -- West (U.S.) -- Maps; Railroad travel -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps; Northern Pacific Railroad; Oregon Railway and Navigation Company; Washington Territory |
| 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; United States--Wisconsin |
| 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 president to the stockholders at their annual meeting / Northern Pacific Railroad. |
