Map of the City of Cheney, 1890
Rating
Title
Map of the City of Cheney , 1890
Creator
D . F . Percival & Co .
Date.Original
1890
Publisher
Chicago : Rand McNally & Co .
Description
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 . Cheney , gave the town $10,000 towards building a private academy , the town changed its name to Cheney . The academy still exists today , though as a public school , as Eastern Washington University .
Subject
Cheney (Wash.)--Maps
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Plats
Location Depicted
United States--Washington (State)--Spokane county--Cheney
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu218 ; sc001 3.36 1890
Holding Institution
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries
Digitization
Original maps were scanned in color at 600 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries.
Format
image/jpg2000
Contributors
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections
Language
English
Source
Is found in SC 1 , Historic Maps Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/sc001.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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