Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Eastern Washington Northern Pacific Railroad, (ca. 1900) |
Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu326 WSU 326; G4241.P3 1900 N67 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,542 |
Creator | Northern Pacific Railroad Company |
Date | ca. 1900 2000 - 2002 |
Publisher | Chicago : Poole Bros., Engravers |
Description | 1 map : Col., 51 x 35 cm. folded to 18 x 9 cm. Text on back includes information for various eastern Washington counties on agriculture, climate, and homesteading. View text and map on back: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu327 This map comes from a promotional brochure produced by the Northern Pacific Railroad. Government land grants to the railroad in return for the construction of its transcontinental route left the various early transcontinental railroads in the... |
Subject | Northern Pacific Railroad Company -- Maps.; Railroads -- United States -- Maps.; Washington (State) -- Maps. |
Type | Maps |
Coverage | United States--Washington (State) |
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 |