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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 map; 13 x 17 cm. Legend shows average annual temperature by county for the Inland Empire. This map is drawn from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. On facing page:…

1 map: 37 x 46 cm. Map shows a cross section of the 49th and 48th parallels with fathoms indicated. When the 1846 Treaty of Washington resolved the British-American boundary dispute as the 49th parallel, with Vancouver Island remaining…

1 map: col., 34 x 73 cm. Scale 1"=80 miles. Map shows Northern Pacific Main Line, Northern Pacific Branches, Oregon and Transcontinental Lines, Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Lines, and uncompleted roads. After the initial burst of…

1 map: col., 26 x 37 cm. Scale 25 miles to 1 inch.This forms the center pages from a 46 page promotional brochure issued by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce. Also in brochure: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu188 Also in…

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…

23 x 47 cm. View Bird's-eye map on verso: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu206 This is part of a promotional pamphlet intending to lobby for passage of funding from the 70th Congress (1928). None of the various projects outlined…

1 bird's-eye view ms.; 31 x 51 cm. A drawing of the mission at Tshimakain by Charles Andrew Geyer.Elkanah (1805-1877) and Mary Richardson Walker (1811- 1897) were one of six missionary couples (plus one single man) sent by the American Board of…

1 map; 10 x 23 cm. Map shows double track and proposed lines. The Great Northern finished its transcontinental route in 1893, crossing the cascades at Stevens' Pass. This map comes from a tourism brochure, promoting cross-country railroad travel…

1 map: 22 x 20 cm.This is the back cover of a Grays Harbor promotional brochure. Grays Harbor was named for Captain Robert Gray, who discovered it in 1792. It was a perhaps at its heyday when this was published- a booming lumber town, having been a…

1 map; 50 x 50 cm. Map shows Northern Pacific Railroad lands for sale and U.S. Government lands open for settlement. The Columbia and Spokane Rivers form the northern boundary of the map. As a major part of the financing of its transcontinental…

1 map; 40 x 45 cm. Scale 1/4 inch = 1 mile"Indicating sheets 1 to 6 embraced by survey"Map shows rail road lines. This map comes from a governmental survey of the Duwamish River, intended to determine what uses the River could be put to, and what…

1 map; 18 x 26 cm. Though Burlington (the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy Railroad Co.) had an extensive national network, close examination of this map points out that the northwest portions of these routes are connections, and not part of the…

1 map; 14 x 23 cm.The first railroad to stretch across the United States, the Union Pacific Railroad, was completed in just four years--from 1865 to 1869. This map was in fact printed one year before the completion of the road. Linking up with the…

1 map; 12 x 22 cm. In 1876 and 1877, the Northern Pacific purchased a controlling interest in the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which gave them a connection to the railroads of the Midwest, and which assured St. Paul am major shipping role when…

1 map; 29 x 24 cm. Then possessing less than 300 people, Seattle was about to boom to a population of more than 230,000 in the next 40 years. This was due to a variety of factors, including but not limited to the completion of the transcontinental…

1 map; 55 x 42 cm. When the Northern Pacific selected Tacoma as the western terminus for its transcontinental route in 1873, Seattle residents took matters into their own hands. The city of Seattle incorporated its own railway, the Seattle and…

1 map: col., 20 x 59 cm.In 1888, the Union Pacific Railroad Company was touting tourist points of interest on their transcontinental railroad route. While the boundaries and geography of the United States is somewhat skewed, the map does include…

1 map; 23 x 31 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map; 23 x 32 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was Garfield…

1 map; 23 x 26 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was…

1 map; 23 cm x 29 cm. This map is one of four surveys of prosepective pass crossings bound together in this volume. However, when the Northern Pacific finally completed its passage across the Cascades in 1888, the passage it had chosen was…

1 map: col., 36 x 34 cm.Plat map of a portion of the Whitman County city of Pullman. Scale 1.5"=1 mile. See the other part of Pullman: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu170 Some speculation has arisen over the longstanding story…

1 map: col., 36 x 33 cm.Plat map of a portion of the Whitman County city of Pullman. Scale 1.5"=1 mile. See the other part of Pullman: http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu169 The village of Pullman…

1 map: col., 17 x 24 cm.Plat map from the Garfield County city of Pataha. Scale: 300'=1".In 1881, the newly formed Garfield County held its county seat at Pataha City for one year. It transferred the next year three miles away to Pomeroy,…

1 map: col., 11 x 13 cm.Plat map from the Garfield County city of Chard. Scale: 300'=1". Located fifteen miles west of Pomeroy near Pataha Creek, the tiny settlement of Chard was established by W.J. Chard. It began as a railway station, and in…

1 map: col., 9 x 12 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County town of Pampa. T 15, N.R. 39E, Scale 400'=1". The Columbia and Palouse Railroad Company's line ran through the Pampa siding in 1883. The town grew large enough for a post office just one year…

1 map: col., 27 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Penawawa. Scale: 600'=1".Named after a nearby creek at Union Flat, the town of Penawawa lay twelve miles west of Almota. Its first permanent settler, Mr. Ed Johnson, arrived in 1871…

1 map: col., 38 x 26 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County cities of Rock Lake City and Lamont. Scale: 400'=1".The settlement at Rock Lake was platted on its southwest side in 1903 by Willis Anson Evans. Evans bought three acres of land, and in three…