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Title	Whitney's map of the city of Tacoma and environs, Washington compiled by Frederick G. Plummer, (1890). Map of the city of Tacoma and environs, Washington.
Creator	Plummer, Frederick G.
Date.Original	1890
Publisher	[Washington?] : W.H. Whitney
Description	1 map : hand col. ; 93 x 63 cm. Shows additions, lot numbers, street names, and railroads. Inset: A portion of the county of Pierce, Washington. "Compliments of E.F. Russell & Co., real estate and mining brokers, 916 A Street, Tacoma, Wash." "E.C. Vaughan & Co., Booksellers and Stationers, exclusive retail agents for this map. Map carries the logo of the Union Pacific Railroad. Settlement of Tacoma (first known as Commencement Bay, or Commencement City, after the Bay on which it was located) began in 1853. An Indian War led to the evacuation of the town, and it wasn't until the 1860s that it began to grow again, led on, as were so many Washington coastal towns, by the idea that it would be the western terminus for the cross-continental railroad. When, in 1873, the railroad did choose Tacoma as its terminus, its future was assured. The rail line was not completed until 1888, however.
Subject	Real property--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Maps; Railroads--Washington (State)--Tacoma--Maps; Tacoma (Wash.)--Maps
Type	Image
Genre	Maps
Location Depicted	United States--Washington (State)--Pierce county--Tacoma
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier	wsu310; G4284.T2G46 1890.P5
Holding Institution	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Digitization	Original maps were photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. 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 as Whitney's map of the city of Tacoma and environs, Washington, 1890. G4284.T2G46 1890.P5 at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

Whitney's map of the city of Tacoma and environs, Washington compiled by Frederick G. Plummer, (1890). Map of the city of Tacoma and environs, Washington.

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