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Title: Connecticut, 1886 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2007-03
  • Coverage: 1886

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: New map of Connecticut. It was published in 1886 by S.D. Tilden. Scale [1:285,120]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 0600). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, steamboat lines, drainage, county and town boundaries and more. Includes tables of populations of towns for 1860, 1870, and 1880 arranged by county. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Connecticut
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-72.980737, -72.86834, 41.34854, 41.242592)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-72.980737, -72.86834, 41.34854, 41.242592)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Tilden, S. D. Connecticut, 1886 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3780-1886-t5

Format

GeoTIFF