Title: Chicago, Illinois, and vicinity, 1910 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2008
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2008-03
- Coverage: 1910
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Blanchard's map of Chicago and suburbs. It was published by Rufus Blanchard in 1910. Scale [ca. 1:49,600]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Illinois East State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1201). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, elevated roads, railroads, railroad stations, street car lines, drainage, selected industry locations, parks and boulevards, city limits and ward boundaries, and more. Includes insets: Lake shore north of Chicago -- Cook, Dupage, and Will counties, also parts of Kane County, Ill., and Lake County, Ind.. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.
Subjects
- Transportation
- Illinois
- Chicago
- Alsip
- Bedford Park
- Bellwood
- Berwyn
- Blue Island
- Bridgeview
- Broadview
- Brookfield
- Burbank
- Burnham
- Calumet City
- Calumet Park
- Cicero
- Countryside
- Des Plaines
- Dolton
- Elmwood Park
- Evanston
- Evergreen Park
- Forest Park
- Forest View
- Franklin Park
- Harwood Heights
- Hodgkins
- Hometown
- Justice
- La Grange
- La Grange Park
- Lincolnwood
- Lyons
- Maywood
- McCook
- Melrose Park
- Merrionette Park
- Morton Grove
- Niles
- Norridge
- North Riverside
- Oak Lawn
- Oak Park
- Park Ridge
- River Forest
- River Grove
- Riverdale
- Riverside
- Robbins
- Rosemont
- Schiller Park
- Skokie
- Stickney
- Stone Park
- Summit
- Westchester
- Willow Springs
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Land use
- Landforms
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-87.893927, -87.506755, 42.046422, 41.619548)
- Geometry: BBOX (-87.893927, -87.506755, 42.046422, 41.619548)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Blanchard, Rufus, 1821-1904. Chicago, Illinois, and vicinity, 1910 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4104-c6-1910-b5
Format
GeoTIFF