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Title: Chicago, Illinois, and vicinity, 1893 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2008-03
  • Coverage: 1893

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The Union News Company's new and correct map of Chicago : showing the new city limits and location of the World's Columbian Exposition, streets, parks, boulevards, railroads, street car lines, etc. It was published by Rand McNally & Co. in 1893. Scale [ca. 1:57,900]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Illinois East State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1201). 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, railroad stations, drainage, the location of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, and more. Includes list of railroads entering Chicago. 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
  • Illinois
  • Chicago
  • Alsip
  • Bedford Park
  • Berwyn
  • Blue Island
  • Bridgeview
  • Burbank
  • Burnham
  • Calumet City
  • Calumet Park
  • Chicago Ridge
  • Cicero
  • Crestwood
  • Dolton
  • Elmwood Park
  • Evergreen Park
  • Forest Park
  • Forest View
  • Harwood Heights
  • Hickory Hills
  • Hometown
  • Justice
  • Lincolnwood
  • Lyons
  • Maywood
  • McCook
  • Merrionette Park
  • Norridge
  • North Riverside
  • Oak Lawn
  • Oak Park
  • Orland Park
  • Palos Heights
  • Palos Hills
  • Palos Park
  • Park Ridge
  • River Forest
  • River Grove
  • Riverdale
  • Riverside
  • Robbins
  • Stickney
  • Summit
  • Worth
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Land use
  • Landforms
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • Bodies of water
  • Exhibitions
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-87.847489, -87.464332, 42.015943, 41.628727)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-87.847489, -87.464332, 42.015943, 41.628727)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Union News Company (Boston, Mass.), Rand McNally and Company. Chicago, Illinois, and vicinity, 1893 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g4104-c6-2w95-1893-u51

Format

GeoTIFF