Relief map of the country traversed by the Shasta Route and Coast Line, (1916)

Files

http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/maps/image/329.jpg

Title

Relief map of the country traversed by the Shasta Route and Coast Line, (1916)

Subject

Railroads -- West (U.S.) -- Maps<br>Railroad travel -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps <br>West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks<br>Northern Pacific Railroad <br>Pacific Coast -- Description and travel. <br>United States -- Guidebooks.

Description

1 map: col., 19x11 cm. <br>"U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 614 Plate 1." <br>Areas shown on the sheets of the route map are indicated in red. For example, see sheets <br>1: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu382 <br>2: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu383 <br>3: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu384 <br>4: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu385 <br>5: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu386 <br>6: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu387 <br>7: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu388 <br>In 1915 and 1916, the United States Geological Survey, under the direction of George Otis Smith, prepared four initial volumes of the "Guidebook of the Western United States". Two further volumes were later produced, one in 1922 and the other in 1933. With multiple transcontinental railroads now in existence, and having been so for a few decades, transcontinental tourism had become accessible to the general public. These guidebooks provided both maps and a running text describing the geological and historical significance of the route the railway followed. The self-stated intent of the guides was to "encourage many thousand of Americans to study geography at first hand" and to "stimulate the eye in the selection of the essentials in the scene that so rapidly unfolds itself in the crossing of the continent." These maps come from Volume D, "Shasta Route and Coast Line."

Creator

Diller, J. S. (Joseph Silas), b. 1850.

Source

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, WSU Libraries

Publisher

Washington : Govt. Print. Off.

Date

1916

Contributor

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Rights

Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691

Relation

Is part of Guidebook of the western United States Part D: Shasta Route and Coast Line

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Maps

Identifier

wsu381 <br>F 786 D26

Coverage

United States--Washington (State)

Citation

Diller, J. S. (Joseph Silas), b. 1850., “Relief map of the country traversed by the Shasta Route and Coast Line, (1916),” Digital Exhibits, accessed November 29, 2024, http://digitalexhibits.libraries.wsu.edu/items/show/1938.