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Title: Seattle, Washington, 1913 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2008-05
  • Coverage: 1913

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Seattle : 1913, drawn originally from official records in office of city engineer and revised by L. Missigman. It was published by Seattle Pioneer Pocket Guide in 1913. Scale [ca. 1:35,700]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Washington State Plane North Coordinate System HARN NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 4601). 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, drainage, docks, piers, city boundaries, and more. Includes inset: Rainer Beach. 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
  • Washington
  • Seattle
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-122.468298, -122.246355, 47.701103, 47.50844)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-122.468298, -122.246355, 47.701103, 47.50844)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Missigman, L., Royer, Edgar., Von Babo, Arthur, Seattle Pioneer Pocket Guide. Seattle, Washington, 1913 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4284-s4-1913-m5

Format

GeoTIFF