Title: Charles River Basin park (proposed), Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1880 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2006
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2006-05
- Coverage: 1880
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Proposed Charles River park, engraved for C. Davenport. It was published ca. 1880. Scale [ca. 1:21,100]. Covers the Charles River Basin and surrounding portions of Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, parks, and more. Includes table of areas and insets: View from the foot of Mt. Vernon St. -- [Map of Boston and vicinity]. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.
Subjects
- Massachusetts
- Charles River Basin
- Charles River Reservation
- Charles River
- Boston
- Cambridge
- Maps
- Parks
- City planning
- Land use
- Bodies of water
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- planningCadastre
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.13452, -70.995098, 42.405356, 42.320679)
- Geometry: BBOX (-71.13452, -70.995098, 42.405356, 42.320679)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Davenport, Charles. Charles River Basin park (proposed), Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1880 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-matwn-3764-b6g52-1880-d3
Format
GeoTIFF