Record Details
City of Portland, Oregon, (1909)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | City of Portland, Oregon, (1909) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu379 wsu 379; F852 D38x 1909 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,581 |
| Date | 1909 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Berkeley, Calif. : Ellis A. Davis |
| Description | 1 map : col ; 57 x 37 cm. Map shows street railroads and railroads. Scanned from: Davis' new commercial encyclopedia : Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the Pacific Northwest. Portland was first settled in 1843, and was named, by coin flip, in 1845 (had the coin flip been lost, Portland, OR would now be Boston, OR). In 1883, when the transcontinental railroad connected the northwest, via Portland, to the rest of the United States, Portland's future was assured. The railroad's arrival... |
| Subject | Portland Or. -- Maps; Railroads -- United States -- Maps. |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States--Oregon--Portland |
| 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 |
| Relation | Is part of Davis' new commercial encyclopedia : Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the Pacific Northwest. |
