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1 map: col., 30 x 21 cm. This is one side of a tourist brochure promoting travel to Mount Rainier National Park from both Seattle and Portland. Its fairly representative of the changes taking place at the time, as distance travel began to be less…

1 map: 17 x 23 cm.Inset: [North-Central Oregon] Redmond, Oregon was platted in 1905, near both a planned canal and a planned railroad. The town was named after two local settlers.

1 map: col., 22 x 19 cm.Scale: 1.1 in = 10000 ft.Area of third unit colored in red.Blue lines indicate main distributing canals; dashed blue lines indicate pipe lines; hachures indicate United Sates reservesMap No. 9967Modified from original map…

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…

1 map: 17 x 14 cm. Picturesque America was a series, sold initially in twenty parts but later sold as two bound volumes, of travelogues of various parts of America accompanied by "pictorial delineations of the scenery", generally done by some…

1 map: 11 x 21 cm.Kennewick started as a railroad town in 1883 when a railroad bridge was being constructed across the river there. The town was platted in 1892, and boomed in the early 1900s with the construction of numerous irrigation canals. …

1 map: 39 x 74 cm.Scale: 25 in. = 32 miles.Inset: Profile of river channels from Elliott Bay to Commencement BayCutoff channels, levees or dikes, contours, local survey section numbers, and margin of flood plain all indicated on map. In 1906, the…

1 map: 14 x 8 cm.Scale: 1 in. = 4 miles This map comes from a tourism brochure, a pocket guide to the state of Washington, published specifically for the "automobile tourist." The 46 page brochure includes automotive maps of major cities, distance…

1 map; 24 x 25 cm. "Capt. Pingstone was specially commissioned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to make a reconnoissance of the Columbia River, from the neighborhood of Fort Colville to Ainsworth, and report on the navigability for…

1 map: 14 x 8 cm.Scale: 5 in = 24 miles This map comes from a tourism brochure, a pocket guide to the state of Washington, published specifically for the "automobile tourist." The 46 page brochure includes automotive maps of major cities, distance…

1 map: 14 x 8 cm. This map comes from a tourism brochure, a pocket guide to the state of Washington, published specifically for the "automobile tourist." The 46 page brochure includes automotive maps of major cities, distance charts, a listing of…

1 map: 8 x 14 cm. This map comes from a tourism brochure, a pocket guide to the state of Washington, published specifically for the "automobile tourist." The 46 page brochure includes automotive maps of major cities, distance charts, a listing of…

1 map; 13 x 18 cm This map of downtown Seattle comes from a promotional brochure aimed at the sale of business properties.

1 map; 17 x 25 cm.This bird's-eye sketch of downtown Seattle comes from a promotional brochure aimed at the sale of business properties.

1 view; 22 x 13 cm. Bird's-eye view.Insets: Mount Tacoma [Rainier] 14445 feet high; Loading wheat at Tacoma.Settlement of Tacoma (first known as Commencement Bay, or Commencement City, after the Bay on which it was located) began in…

1 map; 19 x 25 cm. In 1852, James G. Swan was invited to come visit Shoalwater Bay, now known as Willapa Bay, in the Washington territory. Swan spent several years there, engaging in the oyster business. In 1856 he went to the nation's capital…

1 map : col., 16 x 42 cm.Scale: 1 inch = 80 milesCounty Towns indicated by circled points, Railroads indicated by red lines Between November 2nd and November 11th, 1889, four new states were added to the United States. Dakota had originally…

1 map; 33 x 59 cm.Scale: 1 inch = 80 milesIn 1834, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions appointed Rev. Samuel Parker to go to the Oregon Territory and scout locations for missions there. Parker traveled overland to Oregon in…

1 map; 13 x 9 cmScale: 1 inch = 40 miles The Spokane Falls and Northern Railway was started in 1889, and subsequently sold to the Great Northern in 1898. It connected Spokane to Colville and from there split two ways. One went to Okanogan along…

1 map; 13 x 28 cm.Artist: Catlett, Portland Ore. Sunnyside, Washington, is located in the Yakima Valley, and was founded in 1893. The name Sunnyside comes from the fact that the local irrigated lands were laid out on the sunny side of a gentle…

1 map: col., 21 x 39 cm. In 1896, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. was closed due to financial troubles and reorganized as the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. In 1899, control over some of its routes was acquired by the Union Pacific, and by…

1 map: col., 28 x 27 cm.Steam railroads shown by heavy black lines. Horse car lines, electric motor lines, and cable car lines all shown by dashed lines."Property indicated in red is controlled exclusively by L.C. Dillman & Co."Red circle indicates…

1 map: col., 28 x 27 cm.Steam railroads shown by heavy black lines. Horse car lines, electric motor lines, and cable car lines all shown by dashed lines."Showing in RED Property for sale by H.L. Moody & Bro"Scale: 4 inches = 7 milesIn October of…

1 map; 45 x 58 cm. Gov't Lands Taken; O.R.&N.Co. Lands sold; School lands; and O.R.&N.Co. Lands all identified by shading and/or symbols. The…

1 map; 39 x 26 cm. Government lands taken and O.R.&N.Co.'s lands both identified by shading. In 1884, The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. constructed tracks south-east across Oregon from…

1 map: col., 20 x 19 cm. Scale: 3 in. = 200 mi.Toll roads shown by double lines, military roads shown by dash-dot lines. As was consistent with the general governmental practice to encourage the opening of the western frontier,…

1 bird's-eye sketch : col., 12 x 21 cm. Fort Walla Walla was built in 1856 for protection from Indian attacks, and a small city quickly grew up around it. The name of the city comes from an Indian phrase meaning "place of many waters."

1 ms. sketch ; 20 x 18 cm."30 miles below the Coeur d'alene Lake" Gustavus Sohon was born in Tilsit, Germany on December 10, 1825. After emigrating to America, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army at the age of 26. He was ordered…

1 ms. sketch ; 10 x 21 cm. "looking towards the north" Gustavus Sohon was born in Tilsit, Germany on December 10, 1825. After emigrating to America, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army at the age of 26. He was…

1 ms. sketch ; 17 x 22 cm. Gustavus Sohon was born in Tilsit, Germany on December 10, 1825. After emigrating to America, he enlisted as a private in the United States Army at the age of 26. He was ordered West for service on the Pacific Coast. …