Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-4

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Title Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-4
Subject Rocky Mountains (U.S.)--Exploring expeditions--Maps; West (U.S.)--Exploring expeditions--Maps
Spatial Coverage Northwest, Pacific; West (U.S.); Utah
Description Scale of original map: 1:3,000,000; includes cross section. Original publisher: U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers; printed by Gales and Seaton, 1845.
Creator Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Contributors United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Date 1845
Type Image/StillImage
Format image/jpeg
Digitization Specifications Scanned with a Leica S1 Pro digital scanning camera, using a Hasselblad 120mm Makro-Planar f/4 lens. Exposure was at f/11 with a blue filter. Lighting provided by Kaiser Softlite ProVision 6x55W fluorescent 5400K daylight lights. Files saved as uncompressed TIFF at 3500x 5117 pixels. Tif files imported into CONTENTdm for conversion to JPEG2000 display images
Resource Identifier G4050_1844_U5_1of2.tif
Source G4051 1844 .U5 pt. 1; Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. (28th Cong., 2nd Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 174, Serial 461) published 1845
Language eng
Relation J. Willard Marriott Library, Rare Maps
Coverage Coordinates of original map: W 125 degrees--W 94 degrees/N 46 degrees--N 34 degrees. Area mapped extends from Pacific Coast to Wasatch and Wind River Mountains (west half of original map).
Rights Management Digital image copyright 2006, University of Utah. All rights reserved.
Source Physical Dimensions 77 x 128 cm (both pieces)
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Scanning Technician Kelly Taylor
ARK ark:/87278/s6bg304c
Setname uu_awm
ID 1081824
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bg304c
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