La Conner, Washington Territory (1889)
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Title
La Conner , Washington Territory (1889)
Date.Original
1889
Publisher
Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Company
Description
1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm . Insets J & G . Gaches store and Skagit County Bank . Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington . Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Co. , 1889 . v . 2 , p . 210 The first settlers arrived here in 1863 , and in 1867 the first trading post in what was now LaConner was established . In 1869 , the owner of the store and post office , John Conner , changed the name of the town from Swinomish (as it was originally named after the local Indian tribe) to LaConner , after his wife Louisa Ann (L.A.) Conner .
Subject
La Conner (Wash.)--Aerial views--Maps ; La Conner (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Bird's-eye views
Location Depicted
United States--Washington (Terr.)--Skagit county--La Conner
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu345 ; F852.H67 1889 v . 2 c.2
Holding Institution
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries
Digitization
Original maps were scanned in color at 400 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 History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington , 1889. F852.H67 1889 v. 2 c.2 at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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