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Title: Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken Region, Japan, 1868 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2012-01
  • Coverage: 1868

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Descriptive map, shewing the Treaty limits round Yokohama : including the Province of Sagami & portions of Kai, Idzu, Musasi & Suraga, compiled and drawn by Lieut. A.G.S. Hawes, 1865-67. It was published by James Wyld in 1868. Scale [ca. 1:57,217]. Covers the Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken region, Japan. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tokyo Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 54N projected coordinate system. 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 cities and towns, roads, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, district and province boundaries, temples, baths, ruins, battle sites, and more. Relief shown by shading. Includes notes.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • Japan
  • Chiba-ken
  • Kanagawa-ken
  • Shizuoka-shi
  • T?ky?-to
  • Yamanashi-ken
  • Yokohama-shi
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (138.686862, 139.91198, 35.799047, 35.008596)
  • Geometry: BBOX (138.686862, 139.91198, 35.799047, 35.008596)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Hawes, A. G. S. Yokohama-shi & Kanagawa-ken Region, Japan, 1868 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g7962-y64-1868-h3

Format

GeoTIFF