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1 map; 23 x 32 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map; 23 x 31 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map: col., 20 x 59 cm.In 1888, the Union Pacific Railroad Company was touting tourist points of interest on their transcontinental railroad route. While the boundaries and geography of the United States is somewhat skewed, the map does include…

1 map; 55 x 42 cm. When the Northern Pacific selected Tacoma as the western terminus for its transcontinental route in 1873, Seattle residents took matters into their own hands. The city of Seattle incorporated its own railway, the Seattle and…

1 map; 29 x 24 cm. Then possessing less than 300 people, Seattle was about to boom to a population of more than 230,000 in the next 40 years. This was due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to the completion of the transcontinental…

1 map; 12 x 22 cm. In 1876 and 1877, the Northern Pacific purchased a controlling interest in the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which gave them a connection to the railroads of the Midwest, and which assured St. Paul am major shipping role when…

1 map; 14 x 23 cm.The first railroad to stretch across the United States, the Union Pacific Railroad, was completed in just four years--from 1865 to 1869. This map was in fact printed one year before the completion of the road. Linking up with the…

1 map; 18 x 26 cm. Though Burlington (the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co.) had an extensive national network, close examination of this map points out that the northwest portions of these routes are connections, and not part of the…

1 map; 40 x 45 cm. Scale 1/4 inch = 1 mile"Indicating sheets 1 to 6 embraced by survey"Map shows rail road lines. This map comes from a governmental survey of the Duwamish River, intended to determine what uses the River could be put to, and what…

1 map; 50 x 50 cm. Map shows Northern Pacific Railroad lands for sale and U.S. Government lands open for settlement. The Columbia and Spokane Rivers form the northern boundary of the map. As a major part of the financing of its transcontinental…

1 map: 22 x 20 cm.This is the back cover of a Grays Harbor promotional brochure. Grays Harbor was named for Captain Robert Gray, who discovered it in 1792. It was a perhaps at its heyday when this was published- a booming lumber town, having been a…

1 map; 10 x 23 cm. Map shows double track and proposed lines. The Great Northern finished its transcontinental route in 1893, crossing the cascades at Stevens' Pass. This map comes from a tourism brochure, promoting cross-country railroad travel…

1 bird's-eye view ms.; 31 x 51 cm. A drawing of the mission at Tshimakain by Charles Andrew Geyer.Elkanah (1805-1877) and Mary Richardson Walker (1811- 1897) were one of six missionary couples (plus one single man) sent by the American Board of…

23 x 47 cm. View Bird's-eye map on verso: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu206 This is part of a promotional pamphlet intending to lobby for passage of funding from the 70th Congress (1928). None of the various projects outlined…

1 map; 13 x 17 cm. Legend shows average annual rain fall by county. This map is drawn from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. On facing page: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu229 Also…

1 map: col., 26 x 37 cm. Scale 25 miles to 1 inch.This forms the center pages from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Also in brochure: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu188 Also in…

1 map: col., 34 x 73 cm. Scale 1"=80 miles. Map shows Northern Pacific Main Line, Northern Pacific Branches, Oregon and Transcontinental Lines, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Lines, and uncompleted roads. After the initial burst of…

1 map: 37 x 46 cm. Map shows a cross section of the 49th and 48th parallels with fathoms indicated. When the 1846 Treaty of Washington resolved the British-American boundary dispute as the 49th parallel, with Vancouver Island remaining…

1 map; 13 x 17 cm. Legend shows average annual temperature by county for the Inland Empire. This map is drawn from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. On facing page:…

1 map : 20 x 35 cm. Scale: 12 miles = 1 inch. When the 1846 Treaty of Washington resolved the British-American boundary dispute as the 49th parallel, with Vancouver Island remaining British, the San Juan Islands were divided along "the…

1 map; 20 x 55 cm. Map shows route of the Olympian railroad with no topographic detail. Panorama photograph of the Olympian's cars above. The Olympian was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company's attempt at transcontinental traffic. …

1 map; 23 x 40 cm. Modern map of the Northwest shows the Great Northern Railway's route including the California Extension. The Historic Map includes Lewis and Clark's trail, old fur trading Posts & forts, Isaac Stevens route, etc.

4 maps on 1 sheet : col. ; 104 x 104 cm. or smaller, sheet 111 x 87 cm.Series : Bulletin (Washington Geological Survey) ; no. 13Title from textIncludes profiles of bedrock. Vertical scale 1:48,000"Washington Geological Survey" and "Bulletin no. 13…

1 map ; 23 x 12 cm.Base map identifying islands, bays, inlets and canals in the Pacific Northwest. Includes Rosario Strait and Canal de Haro involved in the boundary dispute between Great Britain and the United States. Also shows towns, including…

1 map ; 18 x 21 cm.Bathymetry shown by soundings Shows the Pacific Northwest and identifies coastal features and water bodies named by Don Francisco Eliza during his exploration. Shows areas involved in the disputed boundary between Great Britain and…

1 map verso: 23 x 15 cm. View map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu199 The publishers of this booklet, Jay Cooke and Company, were the financial managers and marketers of the Northern Pacific Railroad. They printed many pamphlets…

1 map: blueprint, hand col., 21 x 14 cm. This map shows a proposed railroad connecting Lewiston, Idaho, and Homestead, Oregon, up the Hells River Canyon along the Snake River. As Homestead was connected to Ontario, Oregon via a Union Pacific built…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1923-1924: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu196 View transmission lines as existing in 1925-1928: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu197 These three maps, when…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1923-1924: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu196 View transmission lines as existing in 1910: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu195 These three maps, when…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1910: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu195 View transmission lines as existing in 1925-1928: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu197 These three maps, when…