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1 map ; 71 x 55 cm.Relief shown pictorially and by hachuresShows the north and south routes of the two vessels along the coast of northern Oregon and Washington, and along the southern coast of British Columbia. Includes topography along the coast…

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In 1708 a London magazine, The Monthly Miscellany, published a letter signed by Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte. He claimed to have crossed North American from the Pacific to Hudson Bay through the legendary northwest passage. Joseph-Nicholas de l'Isle…

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28 x 22 cm. document, 2 pages. An open letter from Washington State University President Glenn Terrell to the University following the student occupation of the French Administration building, addressing the issue of cancelling classes in favor of…

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 3 pages. President Terrell addresses the eleven demands issued by minority groups on campus. In each case, he explains what the university has done in favor of a demand, why the university cannot acceded to a demand, or how the…

28 x 22 cm. letter, 8 pages. Handwritten letter by Ralph Atkins describing his 1970 experiences with the racism and student protests at Washington State University, as well as his views of racism in America. Writing 17 years later, he relates his…

1 map: 29 x 67 cm.Though the Lewis and Clark expedition occurred during the years 1804 to 1806, Clark's journal was not published until 1814. This map comes from the first British printing of that journal, occurring in that same year, 1814.

1 map : col. ; 41 X 50 cmRelief shown by hachures and spot heightsInset: Diagram of summitScale 1:99,600. 5/8 in. to the mile (W 122°14--W 121°36/N 48°56--N 48°35)

1 map: 42 x 39 cm. Scale: 2 inches = 45 miles. 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…

People on the campus of Washington State University sit at a memorial to Kent State victims. The picture looks north towards Bohler Gym.

This advertisement discribes a luxury chair that contains multiple functionalities. For example, the chair folds out to become a back rest, leg rest, and also a lamp rest/book rest.

This map of North America by British cartographer Edward Wells depicts California as an island. This misrepresentation was based on accounts from the voyages of Hernando Cortes.

1 map : hand col., 40 x 50 cm. Numbered 39. Relief shown pictorially. London meridian. North America, including Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland, and part of the west coast, with California as an island…

1 map : hand col. ; 44 x 37 cm.Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset: San Francisco and environs. A hand colored map including the Oregon Territory --comprising the area that would…

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cmA hand colored map including the Oregon Territory (pink)--comprising the area that would later split into Washington Territory in 1853. The map also includes the newly formed State of California. Its population boomed…

1 map: hand col., 38 x 30 cm.Longitude west from Washington at bottom. Longitude west from Greenwich at top.Capitals of Territories; Cities, Towns, and Villages; Military and Trading Posts all indicated by various symbols. Routes of Pacific Railroad…

28 x 22 cm. leaflet, 3 pages. The University Committee for Rationality, consisting of faculty, staff, and teaching assistants, urged students to address issues of foreign and domestic policy in other less disruptive ways, and condemns the Citizens…

This cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from 1868 illustrates the Northern contempt for Johnson and his reluctance to embrace the Republican goals of Reconstruction after the bloodiest conflict in American history.

1 map: hand col., 48 x 58 cm. The Hudson's Bay Company had grown from being a small fur company to a powerful monopoly which held exclusive trade rights throughout western Canada. This maps comes from a British Parliamentary Committee report…

Building with nuns and children standing in front.

The men of Ace Welding Company.

Men working on combines.

A combine.

A line of combines.