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  1. Title: Map showing canoe routes into Superior National Forest, Minnesota and Quetico Provincial Park of Canada

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:250,000. "This map published in cooperation with the Architects & Engineers Supply Co. Duluth, Minn." Includes inset with title: Good roads leading into America's greatest canoe regions. 49 x 71 centimeters 1:250,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  2. Title: Utah Construction Alternate Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of Utah Construction's entry into the competition. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  3. Title: Utah Construction (Raster Image)

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    Summary: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of Utah Construction's entry into the competition. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  4. Title: University of Iowa campus map, 1912

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    Summary: 54 × 68 cm

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  5. Title: Territory reached by the Bangor and Aroostook R.R : including northern Maine hunting and fishing region

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    Summary: American Express Company ; Transacts the Express business on the Bangor & Aroostook and other important Railroads in the United States and Canada. 56 x 36 centimeters Scale not given. General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Boston and Maine Railroad and connections

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    Summary: Map area extends north to Nova Scotia, south to Springfield, Mass., and west to Rotterdam, N.Y. and Montreal, Quebec.; Relief shown by hachures.; Insets: Nova Scotia and surrounding area -- Boston area. 94 x 114 centimeters Scale not given. General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Map of Aitkin County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:150,000 (W 93°49'--W 93°02'/N 47°02'--N 46°08'). 79 x 47 centimeters Scale approximately 1:150,000 Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  8. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Drainage Sub-basins (Polygons) (March 2003)

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    Summary: This datalayers contains polygons representing Massachusetts drainage sub-basins (see also the Drainage Sub-basins (Arc) datalayer). MassGIS has produced a statewide digital datalayer of the approximately 2300 sub-basins as defined and used by the USGS Water Resources Division and the Mass Water Resources Commission and as modified by Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) agencies. These sub-basins were aggregated together to make the 28 basins of the Major Basins Datalayer. Cape Cod and the Islands do not have much lateral 'surface' drainage because the soils are so porous. The sub-basin line shown for Cape Cod is the approximate groundwater divide between Cape Cod Bay, Vineyard Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean, taken from sub-surface groundwater contours.

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  9. Title: MassGIS 2003 Massachusetts Drainage Sub-basins (Arcs) (March 2003)

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    Summary: This datalayers contains arcs representing Massachusetts drainage sub-basin boundaries (see also the Drainage Sub-basins (Polygons) datalayer). MassGIS has produced a statewide digital datalayer of the approximately 2300 sub-basins as defined and used by the USGS Water Resources Division and the Mass Water Resources Commission and as modified by Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) agencies. These sub-basins were aggregated together to make the 28 basins of the Major Basins Datalayer. Cape Cod and the Islands do not have much lateral 'surface' drainage because the soils are so porous. The sub-basin line shown for Cape Cod is the approximate groundwater divide between Cape Cod Bay, Vineyard Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean, taken from sub-surface groundwater contours. The sub-basin line shown for Cape Cod is the approximate groundwater divide between Cape Cod Bay, Vineyard Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean, taken from sub-surface groundwater contours. The state coastline and boundaries are included in the sub-basin coverages and are differentiated by arc attributes.

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  10. Title: Existing and Proposed Sewers, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1976 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Town of Bedford, Massachusetts : existing and proposed sewers. It was published by Weston & Sampson Engineers in 1976. Scale [ca. 1:20,000]. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also street names, sewerage legend, labeled sewage points, and watersheds. 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.

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  11. Title: The Port of New York, N.Y. and N.J., 1978

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1978 series of paper maps and aerial photographs accompanying The Port of New York, N.Y. and N.J., volume 5 of the Port Series from the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This series consists of 17 sheets, the online linkage file contains the image of the title sheet and a polygon layer that serves an index for the other 16 sheets. To download the map sheets using this index in ArcMap, add the layer, open the layer properties dialog, select the display tab, and check the "support hyperlinks using field" box while selecting the URL field in the dropdown menu. Then use the hyperlinks tool to select the polygon representing the desired tile. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  12. Title: Port facilities at Ponce, Porto Rico

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    Summary: Map shows storage warehouses; bunker oil and molasses handling facilities; oil and molasses lines. "9060°--27 (face p. 114)."

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  13. Title: Foster and Gunnell's mining map of Southern Oregon : showing rincipal quartz and placer mines, wagon roads, saw mills, post offices, etc., as compiled from United States Geological Survey, official and private surveys, and from data obtained from the official records of Josephine and Jackson Counties, Oregon

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Blueline print. 57 x 87 Centimeters Scale approximately 1:190,000 General Map Collection

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  14. Title: Providence, Rhode Island, -- Sewers, 1884 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Topographical map of the city of Providence showing proposed sewerage system together with sewers already constructed, compiled in the City Engineers Office. It was published Oct. 24, 1884 by the City Engineers Office, Sewer Dept. Scale [ca. 1:20,000]. Covers the city of Providence, Rhode Island and portions of the surrounding towns/cities. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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, topography, drainage, selected buildings, constructed and proposed sewer lines, town boundaries, city districts, and more. Relief shown by contours. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England 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, scales, and map purposes.

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  15. Title: Port Facilities at Baltimore, Maryland Map No.2

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1990 paper map entitled: Port Facilities at Baltimore, Maryland Map No.2. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  16. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn., 1897. Plate no. 55, Water mains

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:24,000]. 2,000 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows existing and proposed water mains, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: "Plate Number 55. Water Mains." 72 x 47 centimeters 1:24,000 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  17. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn., 1895. Plate 22 b, Water mains

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:24,000]. 2,000 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows existing and proposed water mains, street car lines and railroads, and parks. "Plate 22 b.--Water Mains." 72 x 47 centimeters Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  18. Title: Map of Minneapolis, 1910. Plate no. 26, Sewers

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:28,234. Shows sewers, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: "Plate Number 26, Sewers." "Andrew Rinker, City Engineer." "Copyright, 1906, by Fred W. Kirk." 60 x 39 centimeters 1:28,234 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  19. Title: Map of Minneapolis, 1910. Plate no. 26, Sewers

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    Summary: Shows sewers, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: Plate No. 26, Sewers. Andrew Rinker, City Engineer. Copyright, 1906, by Fred W. Kirk. 60 x 39 centimeters 1:28,234 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  20. Title: Map of Minneapolis, 1910. Plate no. 6, Pavements

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:28,234. Shows pavement material of streets, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: "Plate No. 6, Pavements." "Andrew Rinker, City Engineer." "Copyright, 1906, by Fred W. Kirk." 60 x 39 centimeters Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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