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Eastern Washington Northern Pacific Railroad, (ca. 1900)

Washington State University Libraries

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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

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