[Warre's Travels in North America.] (1848)
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Title
[Warre's Travels in North America.] (1848)
Creator
Warre , Henry James , Sir , 1819-1898 .
Date.Original
1848
Publisher
[London] Dickinson & Co .
Description
1 map : col. , 21 x 50 cm . Henry Warre was sent by the British government to visit Northwest America and make notes on the area from a military point of view . At the time , America and Britain were engaged in a very unfriendly conflict as to the exact location of the American-British border . The routes of Warre's party are shown on the map here, with the red his journey out and the blue his return journey . They spent six months in the Pacific Northwest in 1845 . Warre brought along his watercolors , and has provided us with a number of sketches of the area of his travels . By the time Warre and party returned to Montreal and had their reports forwarded to England , the British government had already decided to settle on the 49th parallel as the area's border .
Subject
Oregon--Pictorial Works ; Northwest , Canadian--Pictorial Works
Type
Image
Genre
Maps
Location Depicted
North and Central America
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu552 ; 979.5 W25s
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 Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory , 1848. 979.5 W25s at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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