Title: Eastern U.S., 1783 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2013
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2013-11
- Coverage: 1783
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The United States of North America, with the British & Spanish territories according to the treaty, engrav'd by Wm. Faden. It was published in 1783. Scale ca. 1:6,450,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North American Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, tribal descriptions, landscape descriptions, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also colored outlines showing boundaries. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.
Subjects
- Boundaries
- Transportation
- United States
- Maps
- Indigenous peoples
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-111.846798, -40.867242, 58.735834, 15.335178)
- Geometry: BBOX (-111.846798, -40.867242, 58.735834, 15.335178)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Faden, William, 1749-1836. Eastern U.S., 1783 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3700-1783-f31
Format
GeoTIFF