Record Details
[Warre's Travels in North America.] (1848)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | [Warre's Travels in North America.] (1848) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu552 wsu 552; 979.5 W25s http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,695 |
| Creator | Warre, Henry James, Sir, 1819-1898. |
| Date | 1848 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | [London] Dickinson & Co. |
| Description | 1 map: col., 21 x 50 cm. <br>Henry Warre was sent by the British government to visit Northwest America and make notes on the area from a military point of view. At the time, America and Britain were engaged in a very unfriendly conflict as to the exact location of the American-British border. <br>The routes of Warre's party are shown on the map here, with the red his journey out and the blue his return journey. They spent six months in the Pacific... |
| Subject | Oregon -- Pictorial works.; Northwest, Canadian -- Pictorial works. |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | North America |
| 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 Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory. |
