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Title	The north-west-coast of North America and adjacent Territories Compiled from the best authorities under the direction of Robert Greenhow to accompany his Memoir on the Northwest Coast (1840)
Creator	Greenhow, Robert, 1800-1854.
Date.Original	1840
Publisher	Washington : Blair and Rives, Printers, 1840.
Description	1 map: 40 x 54 cm. Published by order of the Senate of the United States. Drawn by David H. Burr. The names of the places on the borders of the Map show their respective Latitudes. Inset: The North Pacific Ocean and the adjacent Coasts and Islands. In 1840, the debate between the United States and Great Britain was still raging as to the eventual border between the two powers in the Pacific Northwest. At the request of the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Committee on the Oregon Territory, Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of State, put together a book on the geography, history, and politics of the northwest to aid in the resolution (or perhaps prosecution) of the issue. This map comes from that book, delivered to the Senate in January/February of 1840.
Subject	Northwest Coast of North America--Map.; Oregon Territory--History; America--Discovery and exploration; Louisiana Purchase.
Type	Image
Genre	Maps
Location Depicted	North and Central America--Northwestern United States; Canada--British Columbia
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier	wsu479; F880.G86 1840
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 1.5 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 Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories, 1840. F880.G86 1840 at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

The north-west-coast of North America and adjacent Territories Compiled from the best authorities under the direction of Robert Greenhow to accompany his Memoir on the Northwest Coast (1840)

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