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Title: Denver and Vicinity, Colorado, 1889 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2009-01
  • Coverage: 1889

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Rollandet's map of the city of Denver, Colorado, compiled, drawn, and published by Edward Rollandet. 4th ed. It was published in 1889. Scale [ca. 1:33,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the HARN State Plane Colorado Central Zone NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 0502). 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, street car lines and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, selected developments and names of landowners, parks, and more. Includes index and views of buildings. 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
  • Colorado
  • Denver
  • Arvada
  • Aurora
  • Bow Mar
  • Centennial
  • Cherry Hills Village
  • Columbine Valley
  • Commerce City
  • Edgewater
  • Englewood
  • Glendale
  • Greenwood Village
  • Lakeside
  • Lakewood
  • Littleton
  • Mountain View
  • Sheridan
  • Wheat Ridge
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • Real property
  • Landowners
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • planningCadastre
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-105.108674, -104.828235, 39.823454, 39.59826)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-105.108674, -104.828235, 39.823454, 39.59826)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Rollandet, Edward., Julius Bien & Co. Denver and Vicinity, Colorado, 1889 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4314-d4-1889-r6

Format

GeoTIFF