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  1. Title: The General Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a plan for Fisherman's Wharf comprising the Fisherman's Wharf-Aquatic Park area. This drawing was originally prepared for the San Francisco Port Authority by John S. Bolles and Ernest Born. (1961). 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. Bolles, J. and Born, E. (2018). The General Plan (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rs107gm7618 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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  2. Title: Map of Woodstock, Conn.

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights.; "1924."; "Base from U.S. Geological Survey map of the State."; "Elevations of county seats are shown by figures adjacent to names. Vertical figures show elevations instrumentally determined and slanting figures show elevations estimated." 65 x 74 centimeters

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  3. Title: Western, Central & Southern continental Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  4. Title: Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  5. Title: Germanic Confederation

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  6. Title: Texas : California

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Shows location of Indian tribes in Texas and California. Appears in Cornell's High school geography. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856 by S.S. Cornell, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court, for the Southern District of New York." In upper margin: Reference map. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. On verso: Untitled map of Missouri, Iowa, parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, and Nebraska.

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  7. Title: West Indies : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  8. Title: South America : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by S.S. Cornell"--Lower left margin. From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856. On verso: part of Western division of the United States.

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  9. Title: Northern or Middle States : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  10. Title: The world showing its great river systems

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    Summary: Double hemispherical world map with charts showing mountains and rivers of each continent. On verso: The world showing the diversities of the land surface. New York : D. Appelton & Co. ... , c1855. Insets on verso: Islands of the western hemisphere -- Lakes of the western hemisphere -- Lakes of the eastern hemisphere -- Islands of the eastern hemisphere. "Designed to accompany Cornell's high school geography." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by S. S. Cornell ... "

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  11. Title: British Isles : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  12. Title: Eastern division of the United States : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. On verso: Map showing the Southern division of the United States. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." Probably issued in: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  13. Title: Southern division of the United States : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. On verso: Map showing the Eastern division of the United States. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1856, by S.S. Cornell, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the southern district of New York." Probably issued in: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  14. Title: A part of Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for reference to the departments of France and the counties of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  15. Title: Africa : designed to accompany Cornell's high school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. On verso: Greece, Turkey in Asia and Persia; India. New York : D. Appelton & Co. ... , c1856. Insets: Liberia; Southern part of Africa; Map of Isthmus of Suez. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by S. S. Cornell ... "

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  16. Title: Geological Map of Ohio

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 78 x 74 cm. "Based on Newberry's maps of 1869 & 79."

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  17. Title: Geological map of the state of Ohio

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    Summary: Also published as: Geological atlas of the state of Ohio. 174 x 158 centimeters, sheets 64 x 86 centimeters

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  18. Title: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Chart of Boston Harbor : from the best authorities. It was published by N.S. Dearborn in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:85,000]. Covers Boston Harbor and adjacent lands. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as beacons, buoys, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, life boat stations, and more. It also shows four regatta courses of the Hull Yacht Club. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. It shows land features such as roads, railroads, settlements, drainage, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  19. Title: Indiana

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    Summary: Shows counties, railroads, and place names. "6.02." Imprint: New York : R.S. Peale, [1902] Dimensions: 28 x 22 cm; Scale: 1:1,647,369 Coordinates: W0880700 W0844500 N0414500 N0375200

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  20. Title: Geological map of Indiana showing locations of stone quarries and natural gas and oil areas to accompany 18th annual report

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    Summary: Imprint: Wm. B. Burford, Lith, Indianapolis

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