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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 : col. ; 46 x 64 cmRelief shown by hachuresScale 1:950. 15 miles = 1 in.

1 map col. ; 65 x 88 cm. Scale [1:68,760]. 1 in. to 6 miles. Shows roads, rail roads in operation, projected rail roads, post offices, and saw mills. The Yakima Indian reservation, at the lower left corner of this map, was created in 1855. In…

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; 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…

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…

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…

1 map ; 43 x 54 cm.Relief shown by hachuresShows progress of township surveys. Indicates surveys executed, proposed, or under contract. Shows land claims of Puget Sound Agricultural Company, the proposed routes of the North Pacific Railroad, Indian…

1 map : col., 59 x 78 cm Includes rail roads, Indian Reservations, surveys (those executed, proposed, and under contract), roads, projected roads, and mineral deposits.

1 map ; 43 x 89 cm.Relief shown by hachures"H.R. Ex. Doc. No.1 37th Cong. 3d Sess."Shows progress of the township in western Washington Territory. Identifies surveys executed, proposed, and under contract, various guide meridians, base line, and…

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…

1 map; 32 x 29 cm. From June 1st, 1905 to October 15th, 1905, Portland, Oregon hosted the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. The world's fair garnered just under two and a half million admissions, made a hefty profit for its investors, and…

1 map : 90 x 136 cm.Shows roads, railroads, boundaries, claim lines, bridges, wharfs, historic monuments, Government bench marks, etc."Compiled by M. Roy Thompson, County Engineer.""Published by Board of County Commissioners, Geo. H. Smith, J. P.…

1 map; 34 x 75 cm. Scale: 1 inch = 4 miles.Railroads in operation indicated by heavy lines. Railroads projected indicated by dashed lines. Wagon roads indicated by parallel lines.

1 map : hand col. ; 27 x 34 cm. Relief shown by hachures. Shows counties, cities, railroads, routes of wagon trails, and rivers. Scale ca. 1:4,435,000 Lower right: 50. Decorative border. Dated 1860 in bottom margin, but some…

1 map : col. ; 28 x 34 cm.Relief shown by hachures.Scale ca. 1:4,500,000.

1 map: hand col., 38 x 30 cm.A map delineating the territories of Washington, Idaho and part of Montana and the state of Oregon. Oregon was the first to form an organized government, and was admitted into the union as the 33rd state under a law…

1 map: col., 38 x 30 cm.This map, used at least as early as 1866 by Mitchell, shows the territorial borders of Washington (1853), Idaho (1863) and Montana (1864). It also shows the boundaries of Oregon (granted Statehood in 1859). Of note are the…

1 map: col., 36 x 29 cm.In 1831, S. Augustus Mitchell, a teacher from Connecticut, began a publishing firm in Philadelphia. By 1845, Mitchell purchased the copyright to The New Universal Atlas, the product of one of the fathers of American…

1 map: col., 28 x 22 cm.When S. Augustus Mitchell retired around 1860, he left the business in charge of his competent son, S. Augustus Jr. His son continued with his father's high standards, and while most American publishers were switching to the…

1 map : col. ; 23 x 30 cm., on sheet 31 x 38 cm.Relief shown by hachuresIn lower margin: 44 "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern…

1 map : hand col. ; 24 x 30 cm.Relief shown by hachuresPrime meridians: Greenwich and Washington"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern…

1 map: col., 37 x 30 cm. This map dates between March 2nd, 1861 (when the Dakota Territory was formed) and March 4th, 1863 (when the Idaho Territory was formed from eastern Washington and western Dakota) Nearing retirement from a thirty year long…

1 map: col., 38 x 30 cm. This map dates from between March 4th, 1864 (when the Idaho Territory was formed) and May 26th, 1864 (when the Montana Territory was formed out of eastern Idaho). Though dated 1860 at the bottom, that was the date…

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: hand col., 21 x 26 cm.

1 map: col., 21 x 39 cm. In 1896, the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. was closed due to financial troubles and reorganized as the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. In 1899, control over some of its routes was acquired by the Union Pacific, and by…

1 map: col., 35 x 42 cm.This map shows the borders of the Territory of Washington (1853-1889) and Oregon State (territory from 1848 to 1859). F.A. Gray, the author of this map, is the son of Ormando Willis Gray, a mapmaker in Philadelphia. Very…

1 map: col., 34 x 45 cm.This map, published by A.J. Johnson and his partner, Ward, shows the State of Oregon (entered into the Union in 1859), and Washington Territory. By 1865 the eastern border of Washington Territory had been defined, with…

2 maps : col. ; 23 x 33 cm., on sheet 56 x 36 cm.Relief shown by hachures. Cover title. "Bormay & Co., N.Y." Originally folded, in cover 23 x 11 cm. Indexes of counties and towns on verso.