Record Details
Map of the western and middle portions of North American to illustrate the history of Oregon and California, and the other countries on the north-west coast by Robert Greenhow, (1844)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of the western and middle portions of North American to illustrate the history of Oregon and California, and the other countries on the north-west coast by Robert Greenhow, (1844) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu372 WSU 372; F880 .G83 1844 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,580 |
| Creator | Ringgold, George H. |
| Date | 1844 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Boston : C.C. Little & J. Brown |
| Description | 1 map ; 61 x 72 cm. This is very obviously drawn from Greenhow's 1840 map, seen at: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu479 It corrects a few minor mistakes, but mostly is a redrawing of the earlier maps, with many of the names removed. It was drawn for Greenhow's second book on the northwest. |
| Subject | Northwest Coast of North America -- Maps; Oregon Territory Maps; California -- Maps; Washington Territory -- Maps; Boundaries -- Washington (State) |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Oregon Territory; United States--California; British Columbia; United States--Alaska |
| 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 The history of Oregon and California, and the other territories on the north-west coast of North America : accompanied by a geographical view and map of those countries, and a . number of documents as proofs and illustrations of the history by Robert Greenhow. |
