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Title: San Francisco Peninsula, California 1869 (Raster Image)

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
• United States Coast Survey.
• United States. Office of Coast Survey.
• Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880.
• Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891.

Dates

• Issued: 2008-01
• Coverage: 1869

Publishers

• Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic topographic paper map entitled: San Francisco Peninsula, U.S. Coast Survey ; Benjamin Peirce, superintendent ; verified J.E. Hilgard. It was published by Coast Survey Office in 1869. Scale 1:40,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California Zone III State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 0403). 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 is a typical topographic map portraying both natural and manmade features. It shows and names works of nature, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, vegetation, etc. It also identify the principal works of humans, such as roads, railroads, boundaries, transmission lines, major buildings, etc. Relief is shown with standard contour intervals of 20 feet and spot heights. 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
• California
• San Francisco Peninsula
• San Francisco
• Brisbane
• Burlingame
• Daly City
• Half Moon Bay
• Millbrae
• Pacifica
• San Bruno
• South San Francisco
• Maps
• Maps, Topographic
• Human settlements
• Cities and towns
• Land use
• Landforms
• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Bodies of water
• imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.582789, -122.299847, 37.870143, 37.552887)
• Geometry: BBOX (-122.582789, -122.299847, 37.870143, 37.552887)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, United States Coast Survey., United States. Office of Coast Survey., Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880., Hilgard, J. E. (Julius Erasmus), 1825-1891. San Francisco Peninsula, California 1869 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4362-s223-1869-u5

Format

GeoTIFF