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The north-west-coast of North America and adjacent Territories Compiled from the best authorities under the direction of Robert Greenhow to accompany his Memoir on the Northwest Coast (1840)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The north-west-coast of North America and adjacent Territories Compiled from the best authorities under the direction of Robert Greenhow to accompany his Memoir on the Northwest Coast (1840) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu479 wsu 479; F880 .G86 1840 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,609 |
| Creator | Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854. |
| Date | 1840 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Washington : Blair and Rives, Printers, 1840. |
| Description | 1 map: 40 x 54 cm. Published by order of the Senate of the United States. Drawn by David H. Burr. The names of the places on the borders of the Map show their respective Latitudes. Inset: The North Pacific Ocean and the adjacent Coasts and Islands. In 1840, the debate between the United States and Great Britain was still raging as to the eventual border between the two powers in the Pacific Northwest. At the request of the Secretary of State and the Chairman... |
| Subject | Northwest Coast of North America -- Map.; Oregon Territory -- History; ;; ;; ;; ;; ;;; America -- Discovery and exploration; ;; ;; ;; ;; ;;; Louisiana Purchase. |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | North America -- West |
| 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 1.5 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 Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories : illustrated by a map and a geographical view . of those countries |
