The American Village [Oregon City] (1848)
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Title
The American Village [Oregon City] (1848)
Creator
Warre , Henry James , Sir , 1819-1898 .
Date.Original
1848
Publisher
[London] Dickinson & Co .
Description
1 watercolor view : col. , 28 x 35 cm . Oregon City was first settled in 1829 . Dr . John McLoughlin is generally credited as the town's founding father , having constructed an early lumber mill there. Oregon City was an early capitol of the territory , until the territorial capitol was finally moved to Salem in 1851 . In his book , the artist (Henry Warre) notes that a rival city had sprung up further down the Willamette during the summer of 1845- this would become Portland , Oregon .
Subject
Oregon--Oregon City--Pictorial Works
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Bird's-eye views
Location Depicted
United States--Oregon--Clackamas county--Oregon City
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu554 ; 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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