Title: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2009
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- Buxton & Skinner Stationery Co.
- Parker Eng. Co.
- Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co.
Dates
- Issued: 2009-03
- Coverage: 1904
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Ground plan of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis, MO 1904. It was published by Buxton & Skinner Stationery Co. Scale [1:7,500]. Covers the exposition grounds and buildings of the Saint Louis World's Fair, currently the Forest Park and Washington University area, St. Louis, Missouri. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the the Missouri East State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 2401). 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 and stations, cable and electric car lines, drainage, lagoons and ponds, buildings, ground cover, paths, and more. Includes index. 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
- Society
- Structure
- Missouri
- Saint Louis
- Forest Park
- Maps
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
- Exhibitions
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Land use
- Landforms
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Bodies of water
- Buildings
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-90.328003, -90.276454, 38.656422, 38.62632)
- Geometry: BBOX (-90.328003, -90.276454, 38.656422, 38.62632)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Buxton & Skinner Stationery Co., Parker Eng. Co., Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4164-s4q48-1904-b8
Format
GeoTIFF