Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and vicinity, Roads, 1897 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2008
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2008-01
- Coverage: 1897
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the country around Philadelphia : with the good roads specially marked. It was published by J. L. Smith in 1897. Scale [1:63,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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 ('Good roads' are shown in red), railroads, drainage, canals, selected buildings, towns, county and state boundies, and more. Includes explanation of signs. 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
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Bucks County
- Delaware County
- Montgomery County
- New Jersey
- Burlington County
- Camden County
- Gloucester County
- Mercer County
- Maps
- Roads
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Land use
- Landforms
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-75.43133, -74.534746, 40.297108, 39.770087)
- Geometry: BBOX (-75.43133, -74.534746, 40.297108, 39.770087)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Smith, J. L. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and vicinity, Roads, 1897 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g3824-p5p2-1897-s6
Format
GeoTIFF