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Title: Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, 1825 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2007-03
  • Coverage: 1825

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island : constructed from the latest authorities, drawn by D.H. Vance ; engraved by J.H. Young. It was published by A. Finley in 1825. Scale [ca. 1:700,000]. Covers also portions of New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and New Hampshire. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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, drainage, state, county, and town boundaries, and more. Relief is shown pictorially. Includes statistical table. 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 purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Massachusetts
  • Connecticut
  • Rhode Island
  • Vermont
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • New Jersey
  • New England
  • 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 (-75.235244, -68.693451, 43.898108, 39.491748)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-75.235244, -68.693451, 43.898108, 39.491748)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Vance, D. H. (David H.), Finley, A. (Anthony), Young, J. H. (James Hamilton). Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, 1825 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3720-1825-v31

Format

GeoTIFF