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Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1874 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2008-01
  • Coverage: 1874

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in 1874. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, wharves, ferry routes, and more. 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
  • Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia
  • New Jersey
  • Camden
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-75.27617, -75.080531, 40.02319, 39.907266)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-75.27617, -75.080531, 40.02319, 39.907266)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Gamble, W. H. (William H.), Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1874 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3824-p5-1874-g3

Format

GeoTIFF