Map showing the different routes travelled over by the detachments of the Overland Command in the spring of 1855 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Bay of San Francisco.

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Title Map showing the different routes travelled over by the detachments of the Overland Command in the spring of 1855 from Salt Lake City, Utah, to the Bay of San Francisco.
Subject Southwest, New--Exploring expeditions--Maps
Spatial Coverage Southwest, New; California; Nevada
Description Scale of original map: ca. 1:3,000,000 Indicates routes of Capt. Ingalls, Col. Steptoe,and Lt. Mowrey, and camping grounds. Original Publisher: U.S. War Department; Ackerman Lithographers, 1855
Creator United States. War Department
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1855
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 G4300_1855_M36.tif
Source House Exec. Doc. No.1, 1st session, 34th Congress; Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st session, 34th Congress.
Language eng
Relation Is Part of: House Exec. Doc. No.1, 1st session, 34th Congress; Senate Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st session, 34th Congress.
Coverage Coordinates: W 124 degrees--W 112 degrees/N 43 degrees--N 32 degrees
Rights Management Digital image copyright 2006, University of Utah. All rights reserved.
Source Physical Dimensions 63 x 48 cm
Contributing Institution J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Scanning Technician Kelly Taylor
ARK ark:/87278/s64t6vhc
Setname uu_awm
ID 1081841
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64t6vhc
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