Record Details
Northern Pacific Railroad Co. Map, 1870. New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant.
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Northern Pacific Railroad Co. Map, 1870. New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant. |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu203 WSU 203; HE2791.N855 C6 187-? http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,375 |
| Creator | Northern Pacific Railroad Company. |
| Date | 1870 2000 - 2002 |
| Description | 1 broadside : map (on verso) ; 26 x 44 cm. View broadside text: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu204 This map is drawn from an advertisement by the Northern Pacific for the sale of bonds to finance the construction of its transcontinental route. After beginning their fundraising efforts in the summer of 1870, approximately thirty million dollars in bonds had been sold by the end of 1871, which at the time seemed, wrongly, as it turned out, enough to allow for an early... |
| Subject | Railroads -- Finance; Railroads -- Maps; Northern Pacific Railroad Company; Washington Territory |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States |
| 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 New 7-30 gold loan of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co : secured by first mortgage on railroad and land grant. |
