Title: Providence, Rhode Island, 1857 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2012
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2012-02
- Coverage: 1857
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of Providence, Rhode Island, from surveys under the direction of H.F. Walling ; engraved, printed, compiled & mounted at H.F. Walling's Map Establishment, no. 90 Fulton St., New York. It was published by F.A. Baker in 1857. Scale [1:4,200]. Covers a portion of East Providence, Rhode Island.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 3800) 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 roads, railroads, railroad stations, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, etc.), docks and wharves, private buildings with selected names of property owners, town district boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations of buildings in upper and lower margins: New Custom House, Post Office and U.S. court rooms -- Brown University -- Providence Institution for Savings -- Butler Hospital for the Insane -- First Baptist Meeting House -- Grace Church -- General railroad passenger station -- Central Congregational Church -- Providence Athenaeum -- Central Baptist Church.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
- Transportation
- Rhode Island
- Providence
- East Providence
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Real property
- Landowners
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- planningCadastre
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.455853, -71.366999, 41.862175, 41.798858)
- Geometry: BBOX (-71.455853, -71.366999, 41.862175, 41.798858)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888., Baker, F. A. Providence, Rhode Island, 1857 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3774-p7-1857-w3
Format
GeoTIFF