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Saint Francis Xavier Mission on the Willamette, the Covent, and Saint Joseph's College, (ca. 1841). St. Paul du Willamette et St. Francois Xavier, Convent Notre Dame, St. Joseph College
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Saint Francis Xavier Mission on the Willamette, the Covent, and Saint Joseph's College, (ca. 1841). St. Paul du Willamette et St. Francois Xavier, Convent Notre Dame, St. Joseph College |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu537-53 WSU 537-53; Cage 537 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,392 |
| Creator | Point, Nicholas, 1799-1868 |
| Date | ca. 1841 2000 - 2002 |
| Description | 1 ms.: bird's-eye, 11 x 18.5 cm. Fr. Nicholas Point headed to the Rocky Mountains in 1841 with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet and five other Jesuit missionaries. As the group's official diarist on this trip, Point sketched the campus of the St. Francis Xavier Mission on the Willamette which would eventually become the headquarters for all Jesuit activities in the Northwest. |
| Subject | Point, Nicholas, 1799-1868; Missions -- Oregon -- Maps, Manuscript |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States--Oregon |
| 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 | French |
| Relation | Is part of Pierre Jean De Smet Papers, 1764-1970 Cage 537. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg537.htm |
