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Bird's eye view of Spokane Falls, W.T., (1884)

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Title Bird's eye view of Spokane Falls, W.T., (1884)
Identifier http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu271 WSU 271; G4284.S7A3 1884 .W4 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,527
Creator Wellge, H. (Henry)
Date 1884 2000 - 2002
Publisher Milwaukee : Beck & Pauli, Litho
Description 1 view ; 31 x 69 cm. Oriented with north toward lower left. Includes key to points of interest, list of business references, and illustrations of prominent buildings. Insets: Gonzaga College, Public School, West Side of Howard Street, and North Side of Riverside Ave. In 1873, James Glover purchased a 'squatters claim' from two men who'd set up a log-trimming plant there. Glover built a sawmill and store, and within a year and a half of his purchase the county had grown from a dozen families...
Subject Spokane (Wash.) -- Description and travel -- Aerial -- Maps.; Spokane (Wash.) -- Pictorial works.; Gonzaga University.; Washington Territory
Type Maps; Bird's-eye views
Coverage United States--Washington (State)--Spokane
Rights Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691
Format Original maps were photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. 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

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