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1 map: col., 54 x 71 cm.By Department of the Interior, General Land Office, Hon. S.M. Stockslager-Commissioner. Compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources under the supervision…

1 map; 20 x 20 cm.In 1892, Washington's land-grant college (Washington Agriculture College as it was then called) had its beginnings on a barren, dusty hilltop overlooking the young town of Pullman. While a number of years and many methods were…

1 map; 18 x 29 cm.

1 map : col. ; 21 x 30 cm.Series: Bureau of Ethnology. Fourteenth Annual Report ; PL. LXXXVIIISeries: Annual report (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 14"Julius Bien & Co. N.Y."Legend shows the Salishan, Wakashan, Shahaptian,…

1 map: 34 x 40 cm.T. 7 N. R. 46 E. Willamette MeridianScale 4 in. = 1 mileThis map shows the mouth of the Grande Ronde River with notations and the path of a canal and flumes which diverted water out of the river and through a generator both for…

Looking south-west at Old City Hall and the Burgan Emerson Store from across the Palouse River. The intersection street between the two is Olsen, and Alder (now Kamiaken) runs along the nearer side of both. To the far right is the Sacred Heart…

1 map : blueprint; 25 x 38 cm.Discoveries indicated by circles."This Mine is located at the principle falls on Deep Creek, which falls are situated approximately 5.5 miles due south of Bumping Lake; Longitude 121 degrees 20 minutes and Latitude 46…

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., 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., 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., 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: 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: hand col., 42 x 35 cm.The Oregon Treaty of 1846 between Great Britain and the United States settled the northern border dispute of the Pacific Northwest. Under this agreement, the land--occupied jointly between the two countries since…

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

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. ; 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…

A procession marches through town.

This cartoon shows a Chinese man sitting at a table, smoking opium while being scolded by his wife. There is also a young child is hanging onto the skirt of her kimono. The sign on the wall says "There's No Place Like Home." This cartoon shows how…

1 map: col., 45 x 60 cm.Principal roads marked in colors shown. Road signs inset in lower left.

1 ms. map : hand col., mounted on Japanese paper ; 95.6 x 117.7 cm.Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Bathymetry shown by form linesReceived as part of the Edmond S. Meany papers held in Manuscripts, Special Collections, University Archives…

1 map : col. ; 76 x 58 cm., folded in cover 19 x 11 cm."Showing details of roads and graded streets and positions of principal dwellings and prominent buildings."Also shows "suburban railroads."Scale ca. 1:36,000 (W 122°30'--W 122°15'/N 47°45'--N…

1 map: 32 x 58 cm.Scale: 2 in. = 1 mile.Red lines indicate irrigation ditches and flumes.In 1896 the Lewiston Water and Power Company began work on a series of ditches and flumes which would carry water from Asotin Creek into the area that would…

1 map: col., 35 x 27 cm. "Size of type indicates importance of places."By 1889, Congress granted the Washington Territory its statehood. This map shows the counties of both Oregon and Washington States. Note that by 1891 all of Washington state…

Picture of Clara Barton from 1865

Photograph of Union Major General Benjamin Butler. Military governor of occupied New Orleans, American Civil War.

[get dimensions]. This postcard was sent from Masako Furuta to George and Koto Hirahara on July 31, 1945 from Salt Lake City, Utah when the Hirahara's were living in Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming. In the postcard, Furuta describes her…

1 map; 31 x 32 cm. Map shows incorporated and unincorporated land, railways, interurban roads, principal roads, elevations, schools, and the Yakima Indian Reservation. The Ahtanum Irrigation District is marked in red. Ahtanum Creek borders the 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…