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  1. Title: Buckelew Plan (Raster Image)

    • Not specified
    • 2018
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of the Buckelew Plan..This plan is an autographed manuscript map, drawn on cloth, of San Francisco, California, showing streets and numbered lots, some with names of owners indicated. 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.

  2. Title: Street Map, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 1993 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2014
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Town of Hopkinton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, Robert H. Bartlett, Highway Supervisor ; revised by Fay, Spofford, & Thorndike. It was published by Fay, Spofford, & Thorndike in 1993. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. 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, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. 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.

  3. Title: London, England, 1877 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Illustrated map of London, or, Stranger's guide to the public buildings, theatres, music halls, & all places of interest. It was published by George H. Young in 1877. Scale [ca. 1:13,700]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, drainage, selected buildings, and more. Selected points of interest and relief shown pictorially. 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.

  4. Title: Geologic map of the El Monte and Baldwin Park quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

    • Not specified
    • 1999
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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck; geologic cross sections researched and prepared by Wendy Lou Bartlett. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Ted L. Baer Honorary Map." "First printing, May 1999". Includes 3 col. cross-sections, and location map. Duplicate legend, 3 cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements, map dedication, table of well information, and age correlation chart on verso. Bibliography on verso.

  5. Title: Geologic map of the Palos Verdes peninsula and vicinity, Redondo Beach, Torrance and San Pedro quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

    • Not specified
    • 1999
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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck with Perry L. Ehlig and Wendy Lou Bartlett. Relief shown by contours and spot heights; depths shown by isolines. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Martin L. Stout and Thomas L. Wright honorary map." Also shows oil wells. "First printing, May 1999". Includes 4 partial col. cross-sections, and location map. Five "complete" cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements and map dedication on verso. Bibliography on verso.

  6. Title: Geologic map of the Sleepy Valley and Ritter Ridge quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

    • Not specified
    • 1997
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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Perry L. Ehlig Honorary Map." "First printing, May 1997". Includes 2 col. cross-sections, and location map. On verso: "Geologic cross-sections for the Sleepy Valley and Ritter Ridge quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California, by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; prepared and edited by Wendy L. Bartlett; prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest; and the U.S. Geological Survey." Complete legend, 4 cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements and map dedication on verso. Bibliography on verso.

  7. Title: Bartlett's illustrated map of New York City,or, Stranger's guide showing the public buildings, places of amusement and its' various architectural features

    • Image data
    • 1870
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    Summary: Shows streets and landmarks in Manhattan south of 61st Street. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by G.H. Bartlett in the office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington." Originally issued in covers, 21 x 10 cm.

  8. Title: General map showing the countries explored & surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53

    • Image data
    • 1853
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Includes historic notes.

  9. Title: Addresses Washington County, WI 2025

    • Point data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  10. Title: Building Footprints Washington County, WI 2025

    • Polygon data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents building footprints for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  11. Title: Hydro (Line and Polygon) Washington County, WI 2025

    • Mixed
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents hydrography for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025. The following features are included: 'WASHINGTON_HYDRO_2025_LINE' and 'WASHINGTON_HYDRO_2025_POLY'.

  12. Title: Parks Washington County, WI 2025

    • Polygon data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents parks for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  13. Title: PLSS Washington County, WI 2025

    • Point data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents public land survey system (PLSS) corners for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  14. Title: Recreation Washington County, WI 2025

    • Point data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents recreation sites for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  15. Title: Roads and ROW Washington County, WI 2025

    • Mixed
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents roads and Right Of Ways (ROW) for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025 and includes the layers 'WASHINGTON_ROADS_2025' and 'WASHINGTON_ROW_2025'.

  16. Title: Trails Washington County, WI 2025

    • Line data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents trails for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  17. Title: Zoning (Shoreland) Washington County, WI 2025

    • Polygon data
    • 2025
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    Summary: This data represents shoreland zoning for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2025.

  18. Title: Addresses Washington County, WI 2024

    • Point data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents addresses for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  19. Title: Building Footprints Washington County, WI 2024

    • Polygon data
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents building footprints for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2024.

  20. Title: Hydro (Line and Polygon) Washington County, WI 2024

    • Mixed
    • 2024
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    Summary: This data represents hydrography for Washington County, Wisconsin in 2024. The following features are included: 'WASHINGTON_HYDRO_2024_LINE' and 'WASHINGTON_HYDRO_2024_POLY'.

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