Record Details
Map of Portland Oregon showing lines of the Portland Consolidated Ry. Co. and the Oregon Water Power & Ry. Co. (1905)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Map of Portland Oregon showing lines of the Portland Consolidated Ry. Co. and the Oregon Water Power & Ry. Co. (1905) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu571 wsu 571; F884.P8 P83 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,732 |
| Creator | Portland Chamber of Commerce (Or.) |
| Date | 1905 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Portland, Or.: Multnomah Printing Company, Inc. under auspices of Portland Chamber of Commerce |
| Description | 1 map; 32 x 29 cm. From June 1st, 1905 to October 15th, 1905, Portland, Oregon hosted the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The world's fair garnered just under two and a half million admissions, made a hefty profit for its investors, and was boasted to have attracted 100,000 new residents to Portland. This map comes from a promotional brochure put together by the Portland Chamber of Commerce to coincide with the fair. The low lying land the exposition took place upon was eventually... |
| Subject | Portland (Or.) -- Description and travel |
| 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 1.5 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 What to see and how to see it; hand book and guide, containing valuable information about Portland and vicinity, together with an account of the Lewis and Clark expedition... |
