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Title
Railroad
and
county
map
of
Washington
,
(1889)
View Map Image (Zoom)
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=uw055.
WSU version:
http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu335
Creator
George
F
.
Cram
Company
.
Date.Original
1889
Date.Digital
2000 - 2002
Publisher
Chicago
:
George
F
.
Cram
.
Description
1
map
:
col
. ;
40
x
55
cm
.
Relief
shown
by
hachures
.
Shows
counties
,
cities
and
railroads
.
Scale
ca.
1:1,300,000
.
George
F
.
Cram
, a
Union
soldier
who
fought
in
Sherman's
Army
during
the
Civil
War
,
returned
home
in
1867
to
Evanston
,
Illinois
to
begin
a
map
and
atlas
company
with his
uncle
,
Rufus
Blanchard
. By
1875
,
Cram
owned
his
own
publishing
company
in
Chicago
and
soon
rose
to
success
by
using
a
wax
engraving
process
(such
as
perfected
by the
Rand
McNally
Company
, his
greatest
competitor)
.
Invented
in
1834
by
Richard
Cary
Morse
and
Henry
A.
Munson
, the
wax
engraving
process--also
known
as "
cerography--was
not
patented
until
1848
. This
allowed
for
many
engravers
to
perfect
their
own
version
of the
method
.
Among
them was the
Rand
McNally
Co.
,
which
began
printing
maps
in
1872
,
using
a
combination
of
Morse's
wax
process
and
electrotyping
.
Invented
in
Russia
,
1839
by a
German
named
Jacobi
,
electrotyping
took
wax
engraving
one
step
further
by
coating
the
surface
with a
substance
such
as
graphite
(electrically
conductive)
and then
submerging
it
all
into an
electrolytic
bath
and
copper
coating
.
When
ready
, the
wax
was then
removed
and the
copper
plate
became
the
template
for
printing
.
While
of
less
quality
than
lithography
,
it
also
cost
less
. By the
1890s
most
American
publishing
houses
used
this
wax
process
.
Cram
retired
in
1921
,
selling
out
to the
National
Map
Company
. In
1928
, the
company
returned
to the
Cram
name
and
it
has
continued
in
business
to this
day
.
Subject
Washington (State) -- Maps.
Railroads -- Washington (State) -- Maps.
Type
Maps
Location Depicted
Washington (State)
Rights
This image may be freely downloaded and used. Please give credit to the University of Washington Libraries.
Holding.Institution
University
of
Washington
Libraries
Map
Collection.
;
Manuscripts
,
Archives
, and
Special
Collections
,
WSU
Libraries
Identifier
uwm55
;
G1019.C7
1889
map
1
;
wsu
335
Format.Use
image/jpeg
Contributors
University
of
Washington
Libraries
Map
Collection
Language
English
Relation
In
Cram's
standard
American
atlas
of the
world
:
accompanied
by a
complete
and
simple
index
of the
United
States
showing
the
true
location
of
all
railroads
,
towns
,
villages
and
post
offices
[p.238-239]
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