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U.P.R.R. map showing line of branches from U.P.R.R. to Portland Oregon, Puget Sound Wash, Terr, to Montana : to accompany report of G. M. Dodge Chief Eng., (1886)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | U.P.R.R. map showing line of branches from U.P.R.R. to Portland Oregon, Puget Sound Wash, Terr, to Montana : to accompany report of G. M. Dodge Chief Eng., (1886) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu304 WSU 304; HE2791.U55 D63 1868 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,546 |
| Creator | Union Pacific Railroad Company. |
| Date | 1886 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Washington, D. C. : Philp & Solomons, 1868. |
| Description | 1 map : 69 x 78 cm. Some lines hand colored. This map is from a report by the Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, General Grenville Dodge, to the U.P. Board of Directors, advocating the building of a branch line from Salt Lake City to Oregon and the Puget Sound. Dodge suggests the route could be finished by January 1, 1970. However, construction did not begin until 1881 (finally spurred on by a competing railroad), and the Oregon Short Line, as the branch was known,... |
| Subject | Washington Territory -- Maps; Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Maps; Pacific railroads -- Early projects; Railroads -- Branch lines -- Maps |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (State); United States--Oregon; United States--Idaho; United States--Montana; United States--California; United States--Utah; United States--Nevada |
| 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 |
| Relation | Is part of Report of G. M. Dodge, chief engineer, to the Board of Directors, on a branch railroad line from the Union Pacific Railroad to Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Puget's Sound. |
