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

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: 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: 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; 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 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., 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 bird's-eye map: 15 x 23 cm. This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. In 1903, Fairhaven merged with the nearby…

1 map; 15 x 23 cm. This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

1 map: hand col., 46 x 52 cm. The map identifies rivers, lakes, and mountains. Indian tribes and populations are identified. It includes notes and dates from the routes of several exploratory expeditions, including Lewis & Clark. It also…

1 map: hand col., 46 x 52 cm. The map identifies forts, rivers, and mountains. Indian tribes and populations are identified. It includes notes and dates from the routes of several exploratory expeditions, including Lewis & Clark. It also…

1 sketch: 7 x 18 cm.This sketch comes from the author's book on his travels, which includes a journey from Northern California to Victoria, Canada, during which the author passes through the Washington Territory.

1 sketch; 10 x 11 cm.This sketch comes from the author's book on his travels, which includes a journey from Northern California to Victoria, Canada, during which the author passes through the Washington Territory.

1 view ; 11 x 16 cm.Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce…

1 map; 23 x 28 cm. At the direction of the U.S. Government, Captain Randolph Marcy prepared a handbook for western emigrants. This book, "The Prairie Traveler", proved an invaluable aid for those traveling across America by wagon. In addition to…

1 map: 28 x 46 cm. Captain Benjamin Bonneville, on leave from the U.S. Army, took a four year expedition, from 1832 to 1836, into the American west. They traveled parallel to the course of the Snake and the Columbia, and though they did reach…

1 map: col., 21 x 50 cm. 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…