Oregon Territory, 1846
Rating
Title
Oregon Territory , 1846
Creator
Smet , Pierre-Jean de , 1801-1873 .
Date.Original
1847
Publisher
New York : E . Dunigan
Description
1 map : 22 x 26 cm. folded to 15 x 10 cm. Map indicates the travels of Pierre-Jean de Smet around the Northwest with Missions indicated. Longitude West from Greenwich. Father Pierre Jean De Smet came to the northwest in 1840 , as a "black robe " missionary to the Flathead Indians. With them, he traveled through Wyoming , Idaho , and Montana until 1841 , when he was appointed Superior of the Oregon Missions. He remained at that post until 1846 , after which he returned east. This is an English translation of a De Smet map which was originally done in De Smet's native French. The French map can be seen at: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/maps/id/415
Subject
Indians of North America--Missions--Maps ; Missions--Oregon--Maps
Type
Image
Genre
Maps
Location Depicted
United States--Oregon ; United States--Washington (Terr.)
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu325 ; F880.S642 c.1
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 Oregon missions and travels over the Rocky mountains , in 1845-46 , 1847. F880.S642 c.1 at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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