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1 map ; 54 x 90 cm.Relief shown by form linesShows approximate location of military road constructed 1859 to 1862Also shows farms, camps, trails, bridges, vegetation types, rapids, rock outcrops, landings, and locations of battles"Senate Ex. Doc. No.…

1 map : col. ; 24 x 55 cm.Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings and isolinesIncludes inset of Clallam Bay"H. Ex. 226 53 3."Color map with symbols and numbers indicating the location of shipwrecks. Numbers refer to the…

1 map ; 44 x 85 cm.At head of title: War DepartmentPrepared from field notes from 1858-1863Shows topography in the vicinity of the route from the Missouri River to the west boundary of Idaho Territory. Includes hydrography, prairies, identified by…

1 map ; 56 x 71 cm.Relief shown by hachures"Sen.Ex.Doc. No.1. 37th Cong. 2nd Sess."Shows progress of the township surveys in western Washington Territory. Indicates surveys executed, under contract, and proposed. Includes Indian reservations,…

1 map: col., 35 x 42 cm.This map shows the borders of the Territory of Washington (1853-1889) and Oregon State (territory from 1848 to 1859). F.A. Gray, the author of this map, is the son of Ormando Willis Gray, a mapmaker in Philadelphia. Very…

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: 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., 34 x 43 cm.Granted permission to publish S. Augustus Mitchell's maps in 1850, the publishing house of Thomas Cowperthwait & Co. published (as one of its first printings) a map of the newly formed State of California and the Oregon and…

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: col., 28 x 34 cm.One of the first successful American publishing companies to venture beyond the east coast, Rand McNally and Co. began in Chicago, 1856, under William H. Rand. Rand soon after employed printer Andrew McNally, and by 1868 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; 31 x 24 cm.The 1887 date on this map has been added in green ink- the date depicted in this map is certainly several years earlier. In 1873 the settlers there employed a civil engineer to map the area and its claims. Though approximately 50…

1 map: col., 37 x 28 cm.One of the leading map publishing companies of the 20th century, Rand McNally and Co. began in Chicago, 1865. Under the partnership of William H. Rand and Andrew McNally (started in 1868), the company quickly grew from…

1 map: col., 36 x 28From "The People's Atlas."This map shows the defined borders of Oregon state and the Territory of Washington. Note the large county lines in the eastern half of both states. Note also that the boundary of the Washington…

1 map: col., 34 x 45 cm.This map, published by A.J. Johnson and his partner, Ward, shows the State of Oregon (entered into the Union in 1859), and Washington Territory. By 1865 the eastern border of Washington Territory had been defined, with…

1 map: col., 34 x 29 cm."Population 174,768""Area, square Miles 94,560"George F. Cram, a Union soldier who fought in Sherman's Army during the Civil War, returned home in 1867 to Evanston, Illinois to begin a map and atlas company with his uncle,…

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., 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 ms. map: hand col., 21 x 27 cm. William Parkhurst Winans worked from 1870 to 1872 as Indian Sub-Agent for the tribes surrounding Fort Colville in Stevens County, Washington Territory. This hand drawn map delineates the area and number of the…

1 map: col., 36 x 29 cm.In 1831, S. Augustus Mitchell, a teacher from Connecticut, began a publishing firm in Philadelphia. By 1845, Mitchell purchased the copyright to The New Universal Atlas, the product of one of the fathers of American…

1 map: col., 41 x 31 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Belmont, Hay, and Pine City, Washington. Belmont scale 600'=1" Hay scale 400'=1"Pine City scale 400'=1"A past director of the Northern Pacific Railroad, Mr. August Belmont, was given…

1 map: col., 40 x 36 cm.Plat map from the Whitman County city of Garfield Washington. Scale 400'=1" Located eighteen miles northeast of Colfax, the town of Garfield was platted by landowner Samuel J. Tant in 1881. The plat was filed and the town…

1 map: col., 46 x 40 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington.Scale 400'=1"In 1886, the Oregon and Washington Railway & Navigation Co. built track running from Portland into eastern Washington. The track ended at Farmington, named…

1 map: col., 39 x 27 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Colton, Staley and Diamond. Colton scale 400'=1" Staley scale 400'=1"Diamond scale 400'=1"The town of Colton, eleven miles south of Pullman, began as a settlement in 1879. Mr.…

1 map: col., 41 x 34 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Endicott, Almota, Revere, Pandora, and Palisades. Endicott and Almota scale 400'=1"Revere, Pandora, and Palisades scale 800'=1"Of the five platted towns, only Endicott and Almota…

1 map: col, 43 x 30 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Hooper, Chambers and La Crosse scale 400'=1"Chambers has been described as an "odd-shaped town", consisting of one to five block streets. The shortest street, Granite, ran along…

1 map: col., 40 x 32 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Farmington.Scale 400'=1"Located between Union Flat, the earliest settlement founded in Whitman County (1869), and Cow Creek (1879), Union Town was named by Jesuit missionary Fr. Joseph…

1 map: col., 42 x 34 cm. Plat map from the Whitman County city of Steptoe.Scale 400'=1"The area now known as the town of Steptoe was called Steptoe Station at first. This is because the town began as a siding, or flag stop, for the railroad. Records…

1 map: col., 44 x 30 cm.Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of St. John, and Winona scale 400'=1"At Pleasant Valley Creek, eighteen miles northwest of Colfax, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. platted and filed the town in 1888. The…

1 map: col., 44 x 35 cm. Plat maps from the Whitman County cities of Thornton and Elberton.Scale 400'=1"Elberton, named after Elbert, the deceased son of plat filer Sylvester M. Wait in 1886, began as the site of a mill. Located 12 miles northeast…