Plat map of Malden, (1910) Plat book of Whitman County, Washington compiled and published from actual surveys and the County records by Anderson Map Company
Malden (Wash.)--Maps Whitman County (Wash.) -- Maps
1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Malden. Scale 400'=1" Located twenty miles north of Colfax, the town of Malden, Washington was named by the then Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway--Mr. H. R. Williams. When his company extended their rail to the Puget Sound, they chose the Malden area as a "division point". No town site had yet existed there, but it would soon become a stopping point for the "Milwaukee Road"'s change crew, their repair and stock shops, and administrative offices. Soon following the construction of the C.M. & P.S. Railway's station, freight depot, roundhouse, and switchyard in 1909, Malden town boasted of eighty buildings and a population of nearly 450. In 1910, the year of this plat map, the census showed 798 people and growing. However, Malden could never diversify its economy and when--due to technological advancements and a reduction in rail use in America--the C.M. & P.S. line closed their Puget Sound line in 1980, the town had already suffered a substantial decrease in population (around 200), and by then railroad families had moved on for work. (For more information on the Palouse region's division points on railway lines, see Dale Martin's WSU Thesis: "Tekoa and Malden: a history of two railroad towns in eastern Washington", 1984.)
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Is part of Plat Book of Whitman County Washington Compiled and Published from actual Surveys and the County Records by Anderson Map Company Seattle, Wash 1910
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Malden
Map of campus State College of Washington Pullman, (1935)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps
1 map: 14 x 19 cm. A small, footprint map of the State College of Washington campus. The map does not include street names, but all buildings are identified. Many of the periphery buildings on this map were a product of the upswing in the national economy during 1928 and early 1929. A number of buildings were constructed at this time, including the large and important addition of a hospital (see to the left of the title.) Troy Hall, which was built in 1926 and housed the dairy industry department, was the last substantial building before this surge. A budget crisis in the 1930s resulted in little construction being undertaken. In fact, in 1933-34, both Ferry Hall (men's) and Steven's Hall (women's) dormitories were closed down. Of the students that continued in their studies, many of the men lived in makeshift shacks, dotted throughout campus and in town, or wherever unoccupied land was available.
Pullman (Wash.) : Washington State University
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Washington State University
Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1928)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Washington State College Washington Agriculture School
1 map; 26 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Map includes building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. This map was prepared by the Highway Engineering Department of Washington State College (WSU). Opening its doors to students in 1892 as a land-grant school, the Washington Agricultural College had about five buildings and three major fields of study: agriculture, mechanic arts, and domestic science. The school grew within the decade however, and new departments were formed. The school changed its name in 1905 to Washington State College in part to reflect these additions. While times were lean during World War I and directly after, by 1928 the nation experienced a surge in its economy. Washington State College was no different. A number of buildings were completed during this time, including White Hall and Troy Hall, the Hospital and the field house. Within the decade of the 1920s also came the additions of the Student's Book Store and the Radio Station--KWSC.
Washington State University Highway Engineering Department
Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1938)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Stadium Loop Highway Stadium Way
1 map; 20 x 26 cm. Map of the campus of Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. This map shows the footprints of main buildings on campus in 1938. While it designates the major roads running through the campus, it does not name them. It also has a faint trace in the lower right-hand corner of a title, written in pencil and then erased. The golf clubhouse title and building are also painted over in white. These corrections suggest that the drawing was an early map template. The same general format was used in the printed map of around 1942. The 1942 map has some additions and reductions to the buildings, but more importantly, it names the area's streets and looks like a finished, polished product. By the time of this map, the field house and Bohler gym were reaching their twelfth year, as was the hospital. Following World War II, the horse barn, incubator and brooder house area were razed--to be replaced by new dormitories and the right of way of the Stadium Loop Highway (Stadium Way). The old power house on this map became the fire station not long after the drafting of this map.
Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1939)
1 map; 27 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Revised January 1939 by O.A. Map includes sorority, fraternity, building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. As early as 1915, President Bryan commented on the arrival of fraternities and sororities at the Washington State College campus. Five national fraternities and four sororities soon made visible additions to campus life. By 1936, the number of students living in Greek houses nearly matched that of dormitory residents. This 1939 map of campus and downtown Pullman documents the rapid expansion of the system at WSC, which totaled thirty-four Greek houses on campus at that time and an enrollment of 4,035 students. Leading up to that point, however, the 1930s Great Depression hindered campus living somewhat, and left many students out of dorms completely. A number of young men lived out the school year in self-built shacks on empty properties around the campus. While the economy improved by 1939, new buildings or additions would not be constructed until a few years after World War II. Post-war students and faculty made do with shipped-in structures and furniture surplus no longer needed by the Army.
Map of Pullman and the State College of Washington, (1920)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Bryan, E.A. Van Doren Hall Mechanic Arts Building Administration Building College Hill Bryan Hall Ferry Hall Stevens Hall College Hall
1 map; 26 x 34 cm. Scale 1/8"=100' Map includes building, street, and church directories. Business district and paved streets are indicated. Map prepared by Highway Engineering Department of the State Agriculture College (WSU). Under the Morrill Act of 1862, all states were granted land on which to develop a college focused on the advancement of agriculture. The 1877 Hatch Act added to this donation, by funding scientific research at these institutions for its dissemination to the general public. The goal for both was to raise the level of farming practices everywhere. Pullman, a town dominated by a wheat-growing economy, fought for and won the right to the land grant in 1892. Under the administration of its second president, E.A. Bryan (1893-1916), the first wave of extensive building took place on campus. The Mechanic Arts Building, a womens dormitory later called Stevens Hall, and the Administration Building on College Hill were constructed in 1895. The brick and granite Administration Building was home to labs, library, classrooms and an assembly hall. Trees originating from nearby Moscow Mountain were transplanted on campus during the first Arbor Day celebration in 1896, and a men's dormitory, Ferry Hall, came in 1897. Science Hall (1900), located in what is now half of the Morrow Building, boasted labs and lecture rooms and even museums. By 1908 the Domestic Economy department grew in both stature and size to where it earned its own building, Van Doren Hall. This new building was joined that year by Bryan Hall, first called the Library and Assembly Hall, College Hall for recitation classes, and a number of farm buildings, a hydraulic lab, and a veterinary hospital wing. All of these buildings and more can be seen on this map. By June, 1917 the school held five colleges: Agriculture, Mechanical Arts and Engineering, Sciences and Arts, Veterinary Science, and Home Economics. It also had four schools: Mines, Education, Pharmacy and Music/Applied Design.
State College of Washington Pullman Washington sketch study for general arrangement of buildings (1937)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps landscape architecture Morell & Nichols, Inc. Arbor Day Moscow Mountain
1 map; 20 x 20 cm. In 1892, Washington's land-grant college (Washington Agriculture College as it was then called) had its beginnings on a barren, dusty hilltop overlooking the young town of Pullman. While a number of years and many methods were spent attempting to beautify the school, by it's twentieth anniversary comments were still heard around campus regarding the school's ungainliness. Much of the problem stemmed from the inability of transplanted trees and shrubs to thrive in their new environment--despite the best attempts of successive Horticulture Department heads. Even the students pitched in to help, annually planting trees on Arbor Day (many of which came from Moscow Mountain) and taking one day of the year for a campus clean-up session. However, not until around 1920 were professional landscape designers brought in for consultation on the problem. Improvements thereafter came swiftly and successfully, and a few respected firms, such as the authors of this 1937 landscape study--Morell & Nichols, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota--gained regular employment. In time, this and other firms developed the campus into something "creditable" and collegial looking.
Morell & Nichols Inc. Nichols Nason & Cornell Smith, Stanely A.
Map of campus State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. (1950)
1 map; 23 x 31 cm. The campus of the state's land grant school--Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. By 1950, WSC had developed into an institution claiming over five thousand students. Four major changes took place in the five years following the war. An increase in enrollment due to the G.I. Bill, caused an urgent need for temporary housing. The Army responded by donating a number of surplus living quarters and furniture left over from wartime cantonments. While other units were placed on campus elsewhere, the main area of growth sprung up along the boundary of the WSC golf course and were appropriately named North, East and South Fairway. Peacetime also signaled the arrival of a new president. E.O. Holland, following a stint of ill health, stepped down from the position he had held for three decades and took an advisory position in the library. He was replaced by Wilson M. Compton, who sought increased faculty satisfaction and student physical and mental well-being. The latter goal resulted in more campus activities, counseling services, and the construction of a student union building in 1951. Up until this time, students used the old women's gymnasium, but that building was razed to make room for another major addition soon to arrive on campus--a state-of-the-art library. Plans for an improved library facility had been in the works since 1937. By the time funds became available after the war, it was apparent to all that an architectural "monument" as originally slated under the Holland administration would no longer suffice. With the appointment of Dr. G Donald Smith as library director, the designs were re-drafted to reflect modern needs. This meant not only space for microfilm and movies, but also the centralization of the library's entire collection into one building. Before, the collections were held in a variety of short-term repositories beyond that of Bryan Hall because of lack of storage space. Among these included the Home Economics Building, the Women's Gym and even the Rifle Range. On this map a building marked "library storage" attests to this practice. The improved library increased the viability of a competitive graduate program and, along with President Compton's efforts to establish WSC as a center for technological and industrial advancement, easily placed the college in a position to obtain university status in 1959.
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Washington State University--Pullman
Map of the campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1942)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Stimson Hall Pine Manor Waller Hall
1 map; 14 x 19 cm. A small map of the campus of Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. During World War II, WSC learned that while it was located in rural Washington State, it still could hold an important place in the success of the war effort. In 1939 it began a number of training courses and housed a number of Army recruits. Victory gardens and crops were planted all over the conducive Palouse hills, and both students and faculty alike left campus and put their careers on hold to help the war effort. Many students went off to fight, while many faculty went to work for the government--their scientific expertise providing a great service toward the nation's defense. With the return of these students, plus many more making use of the G.I. Bill, the school experienced a great housing shortage and a number of laboratories and classrooms were in an irreparable state. In 1942, the men's dorms, Stimson and Ferry Hall, had been turned over strictly for military use. Civilian students were housed only in Waller Hall or privately run Pine Manor. The only campus dormitory that ran as a cooperative completely operated by students, Pine Manor was built in 1938 and boarded 85 men. It closed its doors sometime in the 1960s but greatly helped the postwar housing shortage.
Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash. (1913)
1 map; 36 x 31 cm. Scale 400'=1" TWP 14& 15 N. R. 45 E. Map contains key to buildings, halls, and churches. The town of Pullman was not more than fifteen years old when it won the honor of establishing the land grant college for Washington State in 1892. While the school began atop College Hill with no more than five buildings in its first few years, by 1913 it held a respectable number of classroom buildings, dormitories, recreation and sports fields, and even greek houses. In 1913, builders completed construction on the President's Mansion, and was in the middle of building both Wilson Hall (for agriculture classes and labs) and the Mechanic Arts Building.
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps Rogers Field Soldier's Field Silver Lake Lake de Puddle Mechanical Arts Building Wilson Hall John A. Finch Memorial Hospital
1 map; 18 x 32 cm. A map of the campus of Washington State's land-grant school--Washington State College. Set up initially with a focus on agriculture, by 1913 it also included courses in business, foreign languages, home economics, pharmaceuticals and veterinary medicine. A number of buildings no longer standing on the present campus are represented on this map. For example, the hospital situated to the right of College Hall was built in 1903. Construction for the new John A. Finch Memorial hospital began in 1928 and was located south of this map's boundaries. A women's dormitory shortage in 1930 brought the old hospital a new use, however, when thirty female students claimed a home out of its quarters and changed the hospital's name to "Maple Cottage". A number of new buildings were constructed around the time of this map as well. In 1913 the President's Mansion was built, and from 1912 to 1915 workers began both the Mechanical Arts Building and Wilson Hall, then known as the Agricultural Building. Note also the northeast portion of this map. Silver Lake is no longer a part of the campus, but in 1899 the school purchased six acres lying north of the athletic fields and a one and a half acre lake--known affectionately by students as Lake de Puddle--was formed. To make room for gyms and the Bailey baseball field, Silver Lake was drained in 1927. However, one recreation area has withstood the many developments of the school and is present today--Rogers Field. In 1894, just two years following the school's opening, students already felt the necessity of a playfield. Originally, the area was known as "Soldier's Field", but its name was changed in 1902 to honor Washington State's Governor John R. Rogers.
In part of Catalogue of the State College of Washington, 1913 / Pullman, WA : State College of Washington
Map of Columbia River from its mouth to Fort Vancouver at 17 measures of 10,000 meters from the sea. Carte du Rio Colombia depuis son embouchure jusqu'au Fort Vancouver a 17 Myriametres de la mer, (1844)
Washington (State)--Rivers--Maps Columbia River--Maps
1 map : col. ; 23 x 41 cm. From: Exploration du territoire de l'Oregon, des Californies et de la mer Vermeille, executee pendant les annees 1840, 1841 et 1842, par M. Duflot de Mofras, [Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1844] Plate no. 18 Vice Consul for France in the early 1840s, M. Eugene Duflot de Mofras investigated California and the Pacific Coast for his country. France was still interested in the area, and it was Duflot de Mofras' job to report the possibility of setting up a post in the region. During his journeys he traveled through California (Monterrey, San Diego, the Ross Settlement and others) as well as Fort Vancouver and the Columbia River. This steel-engraved, hand-colored map, drawn for his two volume report, charts the course of the Columbia River. Duflot de Mofras was influential in the idea that the Columbia River was not suitable for an ocean port. In fact, he described the sand bar near Cape Disappointment as a "hideous spectacle...with foam cloaking the horizon far out at sea as if to form an insurmountable barrier to ships entering or leaving the river."
United States--Washington (State)--Columbia River Washington Territory
Maps of the Alaska Steamship Company, the Puget Sound Navigation Company routes (1904)
Steamboat lines -- Alaska -- Maps Steamboat lines -- Washington (State) -- Puget Sound -- Maps Steamboat lines -- British Columbia -- Maps
3 maps on 1 sheet : col. ; each 58 x 40 cm. or smaller, sheet 82 x 44 cm., folded to 22 x 11 cm. Relief shown by hachures Shows steamship routes and includes table of distances Text and col. ill. on verso At head of panel title: Black Ball Line "June, 1904." Panel title: Black Ball Line, the Alaska Steamship Co. Back panel title: Puget Sound Navigation Co. Scales differ
Maring & Blake (Firm) Alaska Steamship Company Puget Sound Navigation Company Black Ball Line (Seattle, Wash. : Firm)
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Washington (State) -- Puget Sound British Columbia Alaska Northwest Coast of North America -- Strait of Juan de Fuca
Map of eastern Washington and northern Idaho showing location of Colville Reservation, (ca. 1871).
Colville Indian Reservation--Maps, Manuscript Indians of North America--Washington Territory--Maps, Manuscript Kettle Falls Fort Colville Cascade Mountains Blue Mountains Idaho Territory
1 map: blueprint, hand col., 39 x 48 cm. Map shows location of northeastern Washington Territory, with the Colville region outlined in red. It also shows a large portion of northern Idaho territory, established in 1863. Major landforms such as the Blue and Cascade Mountain ranges and the Columbia River are shown. The first white settlement in this area was Fort Colville (1826-1871), located north of Kettle Falls on the Columbia River. (Kettle Falls was the ancestral fishing site for many Native American tribes, but now lies under Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir of Grand Coulee Dam.) Fort Colville began as a fur trading post until 1846, when it then took on the business of supplying pioneers arriving after the 49th parallel boundary settlement between Great Britain and the United States. One year after its closing, the Colville Indian Reservation was established under a Executive Order signed by President U.S. Grant. This map is most likely drawn by (or for) one of the first Indian Agents of the reservation--Mr. William Parkhurst Winans. Removed from his office in 1873 and replaced by John A. Simms, Winans was known to have worked with a number of white settlers living in the Colville Valley to successfully petition the removal of the reservation from choice land on one side of the Columbia to barren highlands on the other side.
Is part of William Parkhurst Winans Papers, 1815-1917 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cg147.htm
United States--Washington (State) United States--Idaho
Geographically correct railroad and road map of the Pacific Northwest the tinted area showing inland empire and Spokane compiled by Emory Cobb, (ca. 1925)
Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Washington (State)--Maps Northwest, Pacific -- Road Maps Railroads -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Columbia Basin Survey Commission Butler, John S. Corps of Engineers--308 Report Woods, Rufus Quincy Valley Water Users Association Washington Water Company Albeni Falls, Idaho Priest Lake, Idaho
1 Map : 26 x 40 cm. "The Main Highways are Shown by the Heavy Black Lines." "Dark green shaded area show Columbia River Basin Project which will reclaim 1,750,000 acres." See front cover and back of map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu151 Before the arrival to Washington State of the first irrigation projects handled by the U.S. Reclamation Service, the Northern Pacific Railroad and other railway companies funded private irrigation projects in the Columbia River Basin. Their efforts stemmed from a desire to see the entire state in top production and farming communities everywhere in need of railroad shipping services. This map shows the Inland Empire and more importantly, the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project at one of its most crucial times of development. The Inland Empire consisted of eastern Washington, northern Idaho, and northeast Oregon from between the Cascade Mountains to the Rocky Mountains. Within it lay "Big Bend" country--the region farmers flocked to when Palouse land was no longer available. (On this map it is shaded a dark green) For this reason, Big Bend was also known as the "Empire within an Empire". It held some 2,800,000 acres, of which half were irrigable, lying ninety miles from north to south and sixty miles east to west. The project was much too large for one railroad company or town, or other private investor to take handle. By 1919, a number of government agencies (both state and federal) reviewed irrigation plans for the area. Among the top three were the "Gravity Plan", pushed by the city of Spokane and the Washington Water Power Company, the "Pumping Plan" proposed by Billy Clapp of Ephrata and supported by the surveys of Mr. James O'Sullivan, and the "Wenatchee Lake Plan", originating with Wenatchee Valley booster, Mr. Rufus Woods and taken on by the Quincy Valley Water Users Association. The Wenatchee Lake Plan proposed a gravity canal built from Wenatchee Lake in the mountains down to the floor of the Quincy Valley and would only water 400,000 acres. The Pumping Plan involved the erection of a dam at Grand Coulee, giving water to an estimated 1,400,000 acres in the Big Bend country to its south. This map supported the Gravity Plan, which would build a low masonry dam on Pend Oreille River at Albeni Falls, Idaho and hold the waters at Pend Oreille Lake and Priest Lake, Idaho. The reservoir lay approximately forty miles from Spokane. The water would then be sent (by gravity) through a series of canals and tunnels, siphons and aqueducts--even lakes--until it reached the Big Bend country 130 miles below. This plan predicted water for the most amount of acres (1, 750,000) and was touted as economically feasible. Throughout the 1920s, a number of survey reports weighing the feasibility of both plans were given, and approved the gravity plan over the pumping plan. However, the Corps of Engineers' "308 Report" compiled by Major John S. Butler, was the first to approve of the Grand Coulee (pumping plan) venture. When used as evidence in the House of Representative's hearing by the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation, the tide had changed and the pumping plan was approved over the gravity plan. With this approval, in 1933 President Roosevelt signed for appropriation of funds made possible by the National Industrial Recovery Act and construction on the Grand Coulee Dam began soon after.
[Spokane] : Spokane & Inland Empire, Inc. cooperating with Spokane Camber of Commerce and other civic Organizations.
United States--Washington (State)--Spokane County United States--Oregon
Colville Indian Reservation Ex. Order July 2, 1872
Indians of North America--Washington (State)--Maps Colville Indian Reservation--Maps Washington Territory
1 map: 25 x 43 cm. "Scale 12 miles to 1 inch." Manuscript note from verso "3 September, 1935. Presented to the State College of Washington by E. M. Tardy, Day School Inspector U.S. Justice Department." The Colville Indian Reservation was established by an Executive Order signed by President U.S. Grant in 1872.
United States--Washington (State)--Okanogan County--Colville Indian Reservation
Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1910)
Washington State University--Maps Pullman (Wash.)--Maps College Hall Mechanic Arts Building Bryan Hall Ferry Hall Science Hall
1 map; 18 x 24 cm. Map shows early campus buildings with walks and roads indicated. Washington Agriculture College began in 1892, on the hills overlooking the fifteen year old, wheat-growing town of Pullman, Washington. A land-grant college funded by the Morrill Land Act of 1862, the school's purpose was to educate Washington State farmers in the latest crop and animal husbandry practices and technological advances. This map of Washington State College (the school changed its name in 1905) shows what is today the center of campus. In 1892, the campus consisted of the two and a half story College Hall (shown here) which held the President's office, classrooms and labs, a library and an assembly hall, a one story classroom building called "the crib", a number of farm buildings, a workshop, and a five story, co-ed dorm. Within the next few years (1894-96) the school added the Mechanic Arts Hall, the Administration building, and a women's dorm (later called Stevens Hall). Science Hall and Ferry Hall (a men's dorm that had burned down in 1897) were constructed in 1899, with Morrill Hall coming sometime soon after. One of the programs to gain its own department building was the Domestic Economy program. Begun in 1903, the field gained such prominence that Van Doren Hall was built to hold its classrooms and dining facilities in 1908. Other early draws to the school were courses taught towards Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacist training. The veterinary hospital and hydraulics lab shown on this map were constructed in 1907. The building marked "Auditorium and Library" is Bryan Hall, designed by architect J.K. Dow and completed in 1909. It was named after the second president of the college--Enoch A. Bryan.
Is part of Catalogue of the State College of Washington [Nineteenth Annual, 1910] / Olympia, WA : E.L. Boardman
State College of Washington map of campus and vicinity (September, 1946)
1 map; 29 x 44 cm. Includes numbered Veteran's Housing. In 1946, Washington State College began a policy of entrance requirements for students. A housing shortage in the years directly following the Second World War forced the college to recognize that it could no longer accept everyone. Resident veterans received first priority, followed by Washington residents with an acceptable grade point average. Faculty and staff also felt the housing shortage. A number of new homes were built on Military Hill and near the Finch Memorial Hospital to house employees. Students lived in temporary dorms previously used as US Army cantonments. They were shipped to the school and situated near the golf course. Known as North, South and East Fairway, a number of veterans lived in these buildings. The student union building in the center of campus on this map is not the same building used today. It was known as the TUB--or temporary union building--and was originally the women's gymnasium. Students began to use the area as a community center sometime in the early 1940s. However, President Compton felt the need for a new, modern building to help unite the campus. The TUB was torn down and replaced with the Compton Union Building in 1951. The building's dedication came shortly after his forced resignation--brought about by politics found within the Board of Regents at the time. Compton was replaced in 1952 by C. Clement French, the Vice President of Texas Agriculture and Mechanical College, also a land-grant school.
Map of Proposed Monument at College Park, Pullman, Wash., (November, 1932)
1 map: blueprint, 29 x 23 cm. The area labeled Block 7 eventually became the site of the Owen Science and Engineering Library (built 1977) and Cleveland Hall (1963), while Block 8 eventually became a parking lot. This map was presumably laid out for the construction of most of the roads and lots identified on it. The term 'monument' refers to the number markers laid into the intersections.
Map of campus, State College of Washington, Pullman, Wash., (1939)
1 map; 18 x 25 cm. A small map of the campus at Washington State College, 1939. A number of buildings belonging to the Washington State College are shown in this footprint map of the campus for 1939. By the 1950s, the agriculture program became fully mechanized and no longer needed work horses. The horse barn, incubator and breeder house were torn down to make room for the Stadium Loop Highway and veteran housing. Note also the women's gymnasium, located on this map southwest of Rogers Field. This was known as the TUB, or Temporary Union Building during the time of the map. It housed library books and was the campus community center until the completion of the Compton Union Building in 1952.
Yakima County compiled by County Engineer's office, (1921)
Yakima County--Maps Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Irrigation -- Washington (State) -- Yakima Indian Reservation--Maps United States Reclamation Service Ahtanum Creek
1 map; 31 x 32 cm. Map shows incorporated and unincorporated land, railways, interurban roads, principal roads, elevations, schools, and the Yakima Indian Reservation. The Ahtanum Irrigation District is marked in red. Ahtanum Creek borders the north boundary of the Yakima [Yakama] Indian Reservation. Its waters supply irrigation for some 10,000 acres that make up the Ahtanum Irrigation District in Yakima County. The creek flows into the Yakima River, and at one time supplied salmon to a number of Native American fishing sites along its route. A number of settlers arrived in the region during the 1860s and 1870s. By 1871, the Ahtanum Creek was diverted through an irrigation ditch onto newly claimed farmlands and sped the growth of the town of North Yakima ( the name changed to Yakima in 1918) which incorporated in 1886. The Northern Pacific Railroad and Yakima Irrigation Company won right of way across the Yakima Indian Reservation (begun 1855) to construct an irrigation canal running through the reserved lands. The company's first project was the Sunnyside Canal. While it managed to outlast the Panic of 1893, the canal had lost the financial backing of the Northern Pacific during this time. Lack of funds and poor regulatory practices forced the people of Franklin, Benton, Kittitas and Yakima Counties to request government intervention. The United States Reclamation Service--begun in 1902 to oversee water projects in the West--agreed to take over the "Yakima Project" in 1905. Within five years it had regulated use, built diversion dams, and extended the Sunnyside canal. It was the first of many large projects the Reclamation Service installed in the west.
United States--Washington (State)--Yakima County
1 map; 33 x 33 cm. Map shows towns and ranges with rail roads and wagon roads, and ferries across the Snake River indicated. Scale 5 miles to an inch. Whitman County, located in south-eastern Washington State, was created in 1871 out of Stevens County. Adams and Franklin counties were both created out of Whitman county in 1883, leaving the county borders that you see here and which still exist today.
United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County
Township no. 40 north, range no. 30 east, Willamette meridian Okanogan County, (Dec. 11, 1906 and June 14, 1907)
Okanogan County--Maps Colville Indian Reservation--Maps Colville Forest Reserve Colville National Forest
1 map: blueprint, 40 x 36 cm. "Copied from Land Office Plat by Waterville Blue-Print Co. Corrected to June 14, 1907. This Township (north half withdrawn from entry by "E" Dec. 11, 1906 for adjustment of Indian allotments." Some sections withdrawn for Colville Forest Reserve. The Colville Indian Reservation was set up in 1872 in northeast Washington. Just a few months later, following the discovery of gold in the area and upon settler's insistence, President Grant signed an Executive Order that reduced the boundaries of the reservation in half. The Indians received the "south half" while the settlers kept the coveted "north half". This map shows a section of the "north half" of the reservation lands. The federal government then opened the north half for mining entry in 1896. In reality, however, a number of settlers laid claim to the land, plowing fields and setting irrigation ditches--to the extent that in a very short time residents of the south half contended with water shortages. This intense migration continued and then surged in 1900, when the government officially opened the area to homesteads. With growth came serious concern over the welfare of the streams and forests of the region. While President Benjamin Harrison had signed in the Forest Service Act in 1891 to create forest reserves, only the Priest River Reserve (1897) in northeast Washington and northern Idaho had been established. By the presidential term of conservation-minded Theodore Roosevelt, pressure groups from around the country were against setting aside any more lands. A much needed agriculture appropriations bill even stipulated that no more lands could be reserved for this purpose. However, Roosevelt authorized the Colville Forest Reserve on March 1st, 1907--just before signing the ag bill. The Colville Forest Reserve originally held over 700,000 acres, but wording found within the 1906 Forest Homestead Act gave settlers previously living on land claims within the proposed forest acreage the right to remain on their property and the reserve was reduced consequently. Perhaps this map was drawn to locate such land claims. For more information on the development of the US Forest Service in general and the Colville National Forest in Particular, consult Craig E. Holstine's "Forgotten Corner: A History of the Colville National Forest, Washington".
Waterville (Wash.) : Waterville Blue Print Co.
United States--Washington (State)--Okanogan County
The Long-Bell Lumber Company and subsidiary companies proposed general plan of Longview and vicinity showing townsite, suburban additions, industrial waterfront, and industrial sites, Cowlitz Valley Cowlitz County Washington, (1925)
Longview (Wash.)--Maps Weyerhaeuser Company Columbia River Cowlitz River Cowlitz Valley Long, Mr. Alexander City Planning--Washington State--Longview
1 map; 44 x 57 cm. Scale 1 inch equals 1000 feet. Drawn by W. Owen. "This map indicates nothing more than a proposed general plan of development of lands thereon designated." Proposed camp site and St. Helens Inn hand drawn in color. The town of Longview lies at the confluence of the Columbia and Cowlitz Rivers in western Washington, ninety miles from the Pacific Ocean. The town is a rare example of a privately funded city that was planned completely before any structure was put up or any resident lived there. It began out of the necessity of the Long-Bell Lumber Company to branch find a replacement timber source. By 1918, clear-cutting of Long-Bell lands in the south had completely used up this supply of timber. What they found was a section of old growth trees in 23,851 acres which they purchased from the Weyerhaeuser Corp. They added acreage in the surrounding area until the total rose to some 70,000 acres! The president of the company, Mr. Alexander Long, chose the Washington site for originally one, and then two mills as the acreage was added. Realizing that 14,000 workers would be needed to handle two mills and that these workers would require homes and a community, Long ordered a survey of the land in 1921. He then hired two veteran city planning professionals--George B. Kessler (of St. Louis) and Hare & Hare (of Kansas City) to plan for a predicted population of 75,000. They did, and the town was finished in 1923. One of the housing developments, St. Helens Inn, is colored blue on this map. A row of five, two-story houses, the Inn boarded single men who worked for the mill. Longview incorporated in 1924, one year before this map was published. Among the celebrities that came to visit the town in promotional stints were Queen Marie of Rumania (in 1926), the Reverend Billy Sunday (in 1924) and Aimee Semple McPherson's mother--Minnie, or "Ma", Kennedy (in 1931).
Longview (Wash.) : Long-Bell Lumber Company
United States--Washington (State)--Cowlitz County--Longview
Geographically correct railroad and road map of the Pacific Northwest the tinted area showing inland empire and Spokane compiled by Emory Cobb, (ca. 1925) 76 lakes within the fifty-mile circle of Spokane. (ca. 1925).
Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Northwest, Pacific -- Road Maps Railroads -- Northwest, Pacific -- Maps Lakes--Spokane Wash.-- Maps
1 map : 26 x 40 cm. The unfolded front cover and verso of map. See map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu150 This is a tourist brochure promoting Spokane and the surrounding area. As automobile travel became more and more accessible to the general public, brochures, such as this one, promoting day trips in an area became more and more common.
[Spokane] : Spokane & Inland Empire, Inc. cooperating with Spokane Camber of Commerce and other civic organizations.
District map, Walla Walla Washington District Corps of Engineers, (ca. 1955)
Dams -- Northwest, Pacific Dams -- Snake River Watershed (Wash.) Dams -- Columbia River Lower Snake River Project McNary Dam and Locks War Department--Corps of Engineers
1 map : 27 x 40 cm. Before the creation of the Walla Walla District on November 1, 1948, all work done by the War Department's Corp of Engineers on waterways in the west was handled by the district headquarters in Portland, Oregon. Most jobs done under this district pertained to navigational concerns. However, by the 1930s, the Corps would involve themselves in all types of water uses--including the erection of dams for hydropower. The Walla Walla District built eight dams on the Columbia and Snake River systems. During the time this map was rendered (1955), the Walla Walla District was busy constructing four dams on the Snake River, as part of the Lower Snake River Project (authorized in 1945). The Corps had just completed the McNary Dam and Locks on the Columbia River in 1954 and were working on other projects within their district boundary--as shown here. The Walla Walla District is nearly the same as the boundaries of the Snake River watershed--infiltrating six states (Washington, Oregon and parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Utah) and 107,000 square miles.
United States--Washington (State) United States--Oregon United States--Idaho United States--Montana Snake River Watershed Columbia River
Washington (State) -- Maps Surveys -- Washington Territory
1 map ; 40 x 53 cm. "J.A. Williamson, Commissioner" General Land Office "Sen. Ex. Doc. 120." Shows Washington Territory and its boundary with surrounding states. Shows proposed, amended, constructed, and branch lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Also shows rivers, mountains, and coast of Washington Territory. Shows Indian Reservations, military reservations, cities and towns, railroads, Land Office, county line, and county seats, and Surveyor General's Office Indexed in: CIS US serial set index, pt. 14, 1885 (46-2), S.exdoc. 120, map 6 Scale ca. 1:1,300,000
United States. General Land Office Roeser, C. (Charles)
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Chart showing the fisheries in Gray's Harbor and Chehalis River, state of Washington : season of 1889 (1889)
Clam fisheries -- Washington (State) -- Grays Harbor -- Maps Salmon fisheries -- Washington (State) -- Chehalis River -- Maps
1 map ; 27 x 62 cm. Bathymetry shown by form lines Symbols indicate location of pound-nets, canneries, and clam fisheries. Also shows areas of salmon gill-net fishing. Includes towns and tributaries "Report U.S.F.C. 1888--(To face page 240.) Pacific coast fisheries." "Plate XLII." Indexed in: CIS US serial set index, pt. 14, 2806 (51-1), H.misdoc. 274, map 14 Scale ca. 1:950,000 (W 12415--W 12335/N 4730--N 4651)
United States -- Washington (State) -- Grays Harbor Washington (State) -- Chehalis River