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1 map: blueprint ; 51 x 48 cm. In 1901, Mr Ben F. Ross, an employee of the Great Northern Railroad, settled with his family in the area that became the town of Omak, Washington. By 1906, Ross had helped to organize the first…

Folded sheet, [1], 6, [1] p. : ill., map ; 23 x 42 cm. folded to 23 x 11 cm.Map indicates the heights of mountain peaks, railroad tracks, and summer home tracts This is the front and back covers of a brochure published by the US Forest Service. It…

1 ms.: bird's-eye, 11 x 18.5 cm. Fr. Nicholas Point headed to the Rocky Mountains in 1841 with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet and five other Jesuit missionaries. As the group's official diarist on this trip, Point sketched the campus of the St. Francis…

1 ms.; 8.5 x 13 cm. In September 1841, Nicholas Point and his fellow Jesuit, Charles Huet, selected the first site in the Coeur d'Alene River valley near the present town of St. Mary's, Idaho, for the foundation of the second Jesuit mission in the…

1 ms.; bird's-eye, 11 x 18.5 cm. Fr. Nicholas Point headed to the Rocky Mountains in 1841 with Father Pierre Jean DeSmet and five other Jesuit missionaries. As the group's official diarist on this trip, Point sketched Saint Mary's Village among the…

1 map; 43 x 57 cm. Maximum speed limit for Washington 40 miles per hour.

1 map: blueprint ; 51 x 48 cm. In 1901, Mr Ben F. Ross, an employee of the Great Northern Railroad, settled with his family in the area that became the town of Omak, Washington. By 1906, Ross had helped to organize the first…

1 ms. map ; 40 x 49 cm. This is a manuscript map probably drawn by Judge Brown describing two tracts of land where the original Fort Okanogan and "Fort Okanogan on the Columbia" stood.

1 map; 39 x 72 cm. Scale 400 feet to 1 inch. Cheney was founded in 1880 and named Billings, after the president of the Northern Pacific Railway. Prior to that, it had been known as Depot Springs. When a Northern Pacific director, Benjamin P.…

1 map : col.; 35 x 52 cm. Scale 20 miles = 1 inch. Map shows irrigated lands, irrigable lands, county boundaries, National Forest Boundaries, and Railroads.

1 map; 19 x 27 cm. This map comes from a tourism brochure promoting travel within the state of Oregon. Its indicative of the change in focus on the part of the railroads- with no further income coming in from land grants, and the rush to homestead…

1 map; 41 x 59 cm. Legend indicates paved roads, graveled roads, 9 ft. pavement, 9 ft. gravel, and bridges. Map lists primary and secondary highways. The Washington State Highway Department was created in 1905, though the state Legislature had been…

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 ; 29 x 20 cm. Map includes distances from Wenatchee, Sunnyside, Ellensburg, Quincy, and Richmond. Compiled and copyrighted by Automobile Club of WashingtonView map of Automobile roads Horse Heaven quadrangle on front:…

1 map; col., 20 x 27 cm. The Great Northern's route over Stevens Pass was originally laid out with an eye towards the future construction of tunnels that could that could increase efficiency and decrease the hazards of travel. The original line…

1 map ; col., 35 x 45 cm. Colored legend show 7 types of land use.

1 view; 23 x 47 cm. Bird's-eye view.View Columbia Basin Irrigation Project map on inner fold: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu185 This is part of a promotional pamphlet intending to lobby for passage of funding from the…

1 map; 45 x 55 cm. Scale 1 inch = 2 miles. Squares represent Townships. This map comes from a prospectus intending the construction of the mapped railway route from Spokane, Wa to Bayview, ID, for the transportation of goods and passengers…

1 broadside : map (on verso) ; 44 x 26 cm.View map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu203 This page is drawn from an advertisement by the Northern Pacific for the sale of bonds to finance the construction of its transcontinental…

1 broadside : map (on verso) ; 26 x 44 cm.View broadside text: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu204 This map is drawn from an advertisement by the Northern Pacific for the sale of bonds to finance the construction of its…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1910: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu195 View transmission lines as existing in 1925-1928: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu197 These three maps, when…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1923-1924: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu196 View transmission lines as existing in 1910: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu195 These three maps, when…

1 map; 26 x 36 cm. View transmission lines as existing in 1923-1924: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu196 View transmission lines as existing in 1925-1928: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu197 These three maps, when…

1 map: blueprint, hand col., 21 x 14 cm. This map shows a proposed railroad connecting Lewiston, Idaho, and Homestead, Oregon, up the Hells River Canyon along the Snake River. As Homestead was connected to Ontario, Oregon via a Union Pacific built…

1 map verso: 23 x 15 cm. View map: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu199 The publishers of this booklet, Jay Cooke and Company, were the financial managers and marketers of the Northern Pacific Railroad. They printed many pamphlets…

1 map ; 18 x 21 cm.Bathymetry shown by soundings Shows the Pacific Northwest and identifies coastal features and water bodies named by Don Francisco Eliza during his exploration. Shows areas involved in the disputed boundary between Great Britain and…

1 map ; 23 x 12 cm.Base map identifying islands, bays, inlets and canals in the Pacific Northwest. Includes Rosario Strait and Canal de Haro involved in the boundary dispute between Great Britain and the United States. Also shows towns, including…

4 maps on 1 sheet : col. ; 104 x 104 cm. or smaller, sheet 111 x 87 cm.Series : Bulletin (Washington Geological Survey) ; no. 13Title from textIncludes profiles of bedrock. Vertical scale 1:48,000"Washington Geological Survey" and "Bulletin no. 13…

1 map; 23 x 40 cm. Modern map of the Northwest shows the Great Northern Railway's route including the California Extension. The Historic Map includes Lewis and Clark's trail, old fur trading Posts & forts, Isaac Stevens route, etc.

1 map; 20 x 55 cm. Map shows route of the Olympian railroad with no topographic detail. Panorama photograph of the Olympian's cars above. The Olympian was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company's attempt at transcontinental traffic. …