Record Details
The Northern Pacific Railroad : its route, resources, progress and business : the new Northwest and its great thoroughfare, (1871).
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Northern Pacific Railroad : its route, resources, progress and business : the new Northwest and its great thoroughfare, (1871). |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu198 WSU 198; HE2791 .N857 1871 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,367 |
| Creator | Northern Pacific Railroad Company. |
| Date | 1871 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Philadelphia : Jay Cooke & Co. |
| Description | 1 map verso: 23 x 15 cm. View map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu199 The publishers of this booklet, Jay Cooke and Company, were the financial managers and marketers of the Northern Pacific Railroad. They printed many pamphlets such as this one, extolling the nature of the northwest and the benefits of the railroad itself. The railroad held huge land grants, extending up to fifty miles to either side of the prosepective tracks, and as such it was in... |
| Subject | Northern Pacific Railroad Company |
| Type | Pamphlets |
| 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 |
