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This illustration shows a member of a race of people called the Blemmye. They were initially described by Pliny the Elder in his Historia Naturalis as in Nubia.

1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heightsTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Surveyed in 1906""Contour interval 50 feet. Datum is mean sea level.""Elevations on this sheet are one foot too…

Date taken from postmark.

1 map : 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heights and hachuresTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Advance sheet 1659:20/:21""Contour Interval 100 feet. Datum is mean sea level."Scale 1:125,000 (W 118°30--W…

1 map: 17 x 23 cm.Inset: [North-Central Oregon] Redmond, Oregon was platted in 1905, near both a planned canal and a planned railroad. The town was named after two local settlers.

1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm.Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington. Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Co., 1889. v. 2, p. 138. Inset: Lake Whatcom. Whatcom was the first town in the area, founded originally around…

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…

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 : 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 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 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…

A birds eye view of the residential section of Pullman.

Color birds eye view of a part of Pullman.

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

A bird's eye view taken from Sunnyside Hill looking east at


Main Street in downtown Pullman and the college. The IOOF


(International Order of Old Fellows) is the right.

Date taken from postcard. Looking west-northwest from

Pioneer Hill just north of Spring Street. The spired

building on the hill in the distance dead center is the high

school (now Gladish Community Center).

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…

Crest: "Prove All Things"

1 postcard; 5.5 x 3.5 inches.One of several small dogs who served as an unofficial Washington (State College mascot between 1892 and 1919.