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1 map; 57 x 37 cm.Map indicates ownership of property. Scanned from: Davis' new commercial encyclopedia : Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the Pacific Northwest. By 1909, Spokane was firmly established as the major inline shipping point, based…

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 bird's-eye view: col., 14 x 19 cm.Inset: Oregon When the Post Office denied the proposed young town of Maxwell, Oregon, permission to use that name, they were forced to choose another. They chose 'Hermiston.' The name came…

1 map; 24 x 25 cm. "Capt. Pingstone was specially commissioned by the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company to make a reconnoissance of the Columbia River, from the neighborhood of Fort Colville to Ainsworth, and report on the navigability for…

1 map: col., 21 x 50 cm. Henry Warre was sent by the British government to visit Northwest America and make notes on the area from a military point of view. At the time, America and Britain were engaged in a very unfriendly conflict as to…

1 map; 15 x 23 cm. This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

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…

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…

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…

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…

1 view ; 11 x 16 cm.Almota, on the north side of the Snake River almost 40 miles above Clarkston, was early on used by Nez Perce Indians as a fishing site. "Allamotin", "Almotine", and even "Alto Motin" have been given as Nez Perce…

1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heightsTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Surveyed in 1912-1913""Contour interval 50 feet. Datum is mean sea level.""Edition of 1916"Diagram depicts which…

1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm.Insets: Arlington National Bank, Union Block, First Nation Bank of Arlington, and the Sanford House.Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington. Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Co., 1889. v.…

1 view : col. ; 57 x 100 cmIdentifies points of interestIdentifies points of interestOriented with north to bottomOne of library's copies mounted on muslin1 view : col. ; 57 x 100 cm

1 map: 22 x 9 cm.Scale: 3 inches = 20 miles.Heavy roads indicated by heavy lines. Gravel roads indicated by dashed lines. Secondary roads indicated by thin dark lines.Inset: Aberdeen/Hoquiam city detail.Mileages within circles from Hoquiam. …

1 map ; 48 x 53 cm. Map shows railroad lines, rivers, and mountains. Compiled and copyrighted by Automobile Club of WashingtonView road map of winter routes from Wenatchee south on verso: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu213 …

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: hand col., 79 x 119 cm."Scale, 24 Statute Miles to an Inch"Longitude west from Washington at bottom. Longitude west from Greenwich at top.

1 view ; 31 x 69 cm.Oriented with north toward lower left.Includes key to points of interest, list of business references, and illustrations of prominent buildings. Insets: Gonzaga College, Public School, West Side of Howard Street, and North Side of…

1 view : col. ; 55 x 97 cm.Includes text, indexed points of interest and 10 col. ill."W.F. Brown, Pres." and "G.I. Brown, Chief Eng. & Gen. Manager."Perspective map not drawn to scale

1 bird's-eye map: 15 x 23 cm. This map comes from a souvenir booklet published specifically for distribution at the Washington State Building at the World's Colombian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. In 1903, Fairhaven merged with the nearby…

1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm.Insets: Blackman block, The Eye news, book & job printing, Office of the eye C. H. Packard, Editor & Manager, and Carthcarts Hall.Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington. Portland, Or. : North…

1 view : col. ; 50 x 69 cm.Relief shown pictorially and by spot heightsShows agricultural land in cultivation, in timber and mountainous timbered region"Copyrighted 1891, by Charles H. Baker & Co""The American Mediterranean. This picture represents a…

1 bird's eye map: 33 x 51 cm.Map shows railroads, both completed and prosepective, canals, and roadways. Legh Freeman (this map's publisher) was a frontier newsman best known for coming up with the idea of a railroad newspaper, one that would serve…

1 view; 22 x 13 cm. Bird's-eye view.Insets: Mount Tacoma [Rainier] 14445 feet high; Loading wheat at Tacoma.Settlement of Tacoma (first known as Commencement Bay, or Commencement City, after the Bay on which it was located) began in…