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| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_072 |
| Title | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress. In Four Volumes. Volume II. Part 3. |
| Title Alternative | Appendixes to the Report of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army. (Continued.) 1886. |
| Description | 67 p. Includes sections of Appendix QQ: 1886 annual report of Major W. A. Jones, and selections from Appendix RR, reports of Capt. Charles F. Powell, Corps of Engineers, detailing construction, maps and other works related to river and harbor improvements for the Willamette, Columbia and Snake rivers. |
| Number of Pages | 67 p. |
| Citation | Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the Message and Documents Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Forty-Ninth Congress. In Four Volumes. Volume II. Part 3. U.S. Serial Set 2464. Government Printing Office. 1886. |
| TGM Subject | Rivers
Channels
Harbors
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| LC Subject | Rivers
River engineering
River surveys
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| Place Names | Columbia River
Willamette River, Oregon
Snake River
Portland, Oregon
Saint Helens, Oregon
Astoria, Oregon
Corvallis, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
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| Genre | Government Document
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| Author | Jones, W. A.
Powell, Charles F.
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| Contributor | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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| Original Publisher | Washington. U.S. Government Printing Office |
| Date of Original | 1886 |
| Publisher | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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| Repository | University of Oregon Libraries |
| Additional Physical Formats Held by UO | Print Version Available |
| Language | English |
| Type | Text
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| Processing History | First Rapid, Second Rapid, Third Rapid, Diagram Section of Rapid No. 6, Sixth Rapid, Seventh Rapid, and Cabinet Rapids are all color maps, scanned at 42>24 bit, 600 dpi. OCR text transcribed manually. Image areas sampled for tonal range, RGB color channels adjusted, images flattened & sharpened . Format saved as jpg, reduced to 400 dpi. -- Cabinet Rapids Columbia River Washington Territory map: Original map size (approx.) 28.5' x 11". Scanned in three parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 16866 x 649 pixels. -- Map of Yakima Region: Original map size (approx.) 23.5" x 25.75". -- Entrance to the Columbia River: Original map size (approx.) 12.5" x 15". Scanned in two parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 8961 x 7369 pixels. -- Improvement of Mouth of the Columbia: Original map size (approx.) 17.75" x 9". Scanned in two parts at 600 dpi, 16 bit; stitched into one image via Photoshop CS, OCR text transcribed manually; jpeg reduced to 8 bit, 400 dpi w/final size at 10155 x 5211 pixels. |
| Digital Collection | University of Oregon. Libraries. Western Waters Digital Library.
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