Record Details
[Hermiston Oregon] (1910)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | [Hermiston Oregon] (1910) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu541 wsu 541; F884.H4 H47 1910 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,682 |
| Creator | Umatilla Project Development League |
| Date | 1910 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | s.n.: s.l. |
| Description | 1 bird's-eye view: col., 14 x 19 cm. Inset: Oregon When the Post Office denied the proposed young town of Maxwell, Oregon, permission to use that name, they were forced to choose another. They chose 'Hermiston.' The name came from "Weir of Hermiston," which is a Robert Louis Stevenson novel that one of the settler's had recently read and enjoyed. |
| Subject | Hermiston (Or.) -- Description and travel -- Aerial -- Maps; Hermiston (Or.) -- Pictorial works.; Umatilla Project -- Maps |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States -- Oregon -- Umatilla County -- Hermiston |
| 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 found in Hermiston Oregon |
