Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Map of south eastern Washington Territory compiled from official surveys and published by Eastwick, Morris & Co.; drawn by John Hanson, (1878) |
Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu371 WSU 371; G4280 1878 .E38 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,576 |
Creator | Eastwick, Morris & Co. |
Date | 1878 2000 - 2002 |
Publisher | Seattle, W.T. : Eastwick, Morris & Co. |
Description | 1 map col. ; 65 x 88 cm. Scale [1:68,760]. 1 in. to 6 miles. Shows roads, rail roads in operation, projected rail roads, post offices, and saw mills. The Yakima Indian reservation, at the lower left corner of this map, was created in 1855. In 1883 the Northern Pacific would finish its transcontinental route, which would follow the Columbia upstream to its junction with the Snake and then travel north-east from there to Spokane. With the connection of this route as the primary... |
Subject | Railroads -- Washington Territory -- Maps; Surveys -- Washington Territory |
Type | Maps |
Coverage | United States--Washington Territory |
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 |