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    The Pig War and other experiences of William Peck: soldier 1858-1862, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Juan Islands, Washington Territory : the journal of William A. Peck, Jr.
    Creation Date: c1993
    Catalog ID: 2004.50.137
    Call Number: 979./77403/P344p/1993
    236 p.; ill., maps; 21 cm.; Includes bibliographical references and index
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    "Blockhouse - Garrison Bay"
    Creation Date: 1968
    Catalog ID: 1992.0.361
    Depicts blockhouse on Garrison Bay, San Juan Islands in foregrounds, with surrounding building and landscape in background.
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    "Map of Puget Sound Country"
    Creation Date: 1910
    Catalog ID: 2014.126.8
    Call Number: MAPC/WW/PS/1910
    "Map of Puget Sound Country," published by the Clason Map Company, Denver, Colorado, 1910; prominent red text at upper left corner of map reads: "Compliments of Charles Somers Company, Alaska Building, Seattle, Farms, Lands, Water frontages, Country, City and Suburban Homes Correspondence Invited." Geographic area shown includes most of western Washington east to the Cascade Mountain Range, and the Olympic Peninsula, from the Canadian border to southwest Washington. The the southern portion of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Victoria) is also included. Grays Harbor County is identified as Chehalis County (the name changed in 1915). The Columbia River is not shown. Coastal profile, county and international boundaries, towns, railroad lines, Indian reservations, and major bodies of water are shown. Bodies of water are colored blue and county and international boundaries red. A panoramic photographic view of the Seattle waterfront is located on the lower map edge.
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    Reconnaissance of Washington Sound and Approaches Washington Territory
    Creation Date: 1862
    Catalog ID: 1998.91.2.26
    Call Number: MAPC/WT/PS/1862
    United States Coast Survey, marine navigation map (# 27) of Washington Sound, west to Port Angeles, south to Whidbey Island, and north to Vancouver Island (Nanaimo) / Fraser River, B.C., dated 1862. The area includes the Strait of Juan De Fuca, and islands in the Gulf of Georgia and the northern Puget Sound. Coastal contours, depth readings, shoreline development, towns, Indian villages, and Hudson Bay Company forts are shown. Smaller insert map of Admiralty Inlet and Puget Sound, dated 1858, is located at upper left corner of map. Small tide table providing tidal ranges at Port Townsend and Semiahmoo is present at lower left map corner.
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    San Juan Islands in Puget Sound: the vacation land supreme of the Pacific Northwest, the nation's summer playground
    Creation Date: ca. 1923
    Catalog ID: 1997.86.66
    Call Number: EPH-C/979.774/Sa52sa/1923
    1 sheet, folded; ill., map; Includes ''Map of San Juan Islands'' which covers area from Olympia to Vancouver, B.C.; Stamped ''Fraser-Patterson Co. / Seattle, Wash.''
  • Olympic Peninsula, Victoria, and the San Juan Islands: Black Ball ferries to ferryland
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    Olympic Peninsula, Victoria, and the San Juan Islands: Black Ball ferries to ferryland
    Creation Date: 1933
    Catalog ID: 1997.1.443
    Call Number: EPH-B/386.61/P963ol/1933
    1 sheet, folded; ill., maps Illustration of an automobile emerging from a ferry. Numerous images of scenic attractions of the area. Map. Ephemera
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    Making history: the people who shaped the San Juan Islands
    Creation Date: c1990
    Catalog ID: 2004.50.124
    Call Number: 979.774/M145m/1990
    214 p.; ill., maps; 23 cm.; ''First published in 1986-87 in The journal of the San Juan Islands as a series called The story of the San Juans''--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index
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    San Juan Isles, choice of the ''Charmed Land''
    Creation Date: [ca. 1925]
    Catalog ID: 1996.120.39
    Call Number: EPH-A/979.774/Ot8sa/1925
    1 sheet, folded; ill., map
  • Puget Sound summer resorts : a guide to the summering places on Puget Sound
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    Puget Sound summer resorts : a guide to the summering places on Puget Sound
    Creation Date: 1918
    Catalog ID: 1994.4.174
    Call Number: EPH/386.61/P964r/1918
    [6] page illustrated brochure (21.5x17.5 cm.) describing hotels and boarding houses on the Olympic Peninsula, Hood Canal, and San Juan Islands; issued by the Puget Sound Navigation Co. Ephemera. Dated 1918.
  • [wind swept fir trees on a San Juan island, WA]
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    [wind swept fir trees on a San Juan island, WA]
    Creation Date: ca. 1913
    Catalog ID: 2009.33.51
    Black and white ca. 1913 postcard image of a few windswept fir trees, probably located on one of the San Juan Islands, San Juan County, WA,
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