Record Details
Birdseye view of the city of Whatcom, Washington Territory 1888, (1889)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Birdseye view of the city of Whatcom, Washington Territory 1888, (1889) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu344 WSU 344; F852 .H67 1889 v. 2 c.2 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,558 |
| Date | 1889 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Company |
| Description | 1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm. Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington. Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Co., 1889. v. 2, p. 138. Inset: Lake Whatcom. Whatcom was the first town in the area, founded originally around a lumber mill. The discovery of coal in the local hills provided impetus for further growth, and the prospect (which proved false, in the end, due to the impassability of the mountains to the east) of the area being the western terminus for... |
| Subject | Washington (State) -- Maps; Whatcom, Wash. -- Pictorial works |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (Territory)--Whatcom |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 400 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 |
| Relation | Is part of History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington : embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the vast country included in the original territory of Oregon : also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a statistical and graphic description of the climate, soil, productions, industries, improvements and occupations, as well as the natural advantages and resources and artificial acquirements of the great states of Oregon and Washington. |
