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  1. Title: San Francisco plan, showing system of highways, public places, parks, park connections, etc. to serve as a guide for the future development of the city recommended in his Report to the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco by D.H. Burnham. September MCMV (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2021
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a 1905 San Francisco city plan by Daniel Burnham. This plan appears in "Report on a Plan for San Francisco." 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. Burnham, D. (2021). San Francisco plan, showing system of highways, public places, parks, park connections, etc. to serve as a guide for the future development of the city recommended in his Report to the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco by D.H. Burnham. September MCMV (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/tf618bz0007 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: Pillsbury's official standard road map, Minnesota, Iowa

    • Not specified
    • 1928
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    Summary: Indexed.; Maps printed in one tone; cover in two tones.; Included on Iowa side advertisement and inset: Trunk highway map of Minneapolis and St. Paul. 74 x 55 centimeters and 46 x 62 centimeters, on sheet 82 x 66 centimeters., folded to 23 x 11 centimeters

  3. Title: Indexed map of Minneapolis

    • Not specified
    • 1927
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    Summary: Shows streetcar lines. Includes indexes on verso. 58 x 34 Centimeters

  4. Title: Map of the city of Saint Paul

    • Not specified
    • 1926
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    Summary: Shows street car lines. Includes street index. 43 x 59 centimeters, on sheet 46 x 85 centimeters

  5. Title: Hudson's indexed map of Minneapolis : compiled from official sources

    • Not specified
    • 1926
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    Summary: Shows streetcar lines. Other title added to published map by hand.; Includes indexes. 91 x 55 Centimeters

  6. Title: Hudsons official 1922 auto road map of Minnesota

    • Road maps
    • 1922
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:920,000.Includes "Camp sites and driving distances from Minneapolis."Duluth and Superior -- Minneapolis, St. Paul and vicinity -- Cook County, N.E. Minnesota. 71 x 52 centimeters

  7. Title: Map of the city of Saint Paul

    • Not specified
    • 1922
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    Summary: Includes street index. 46 x 84 centimeters

  8. Title: Hudson's indexed map of Minneapolis.

    • Road maps
    • 1920
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    Summary: 82 x 52 centimeters

  9. Title: Hudson's indexed map of Minneapolis

    • Not specified
    • 1920
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:21,250. Scale incorrectly stated at 1/6000. Includes index. At lower right: C.L.H. & H.D.G., Del.. In lower margin: Copyright The Hudson Map Company. 82 x 52 centimeters

  10. Title: Hudsons official 1924 auto road map of Minnesota

    • Not specified
    • 1924
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    Summary: Insets: Duluth and Superior -- Minneapolis-St. Paul and vicinity -- Cook County, N.E. Minnesota. 50 x 34 centimeters

  11. Title: Hudson River Valley Gap Analysis 30m Land Cover

    • Raster data
    • 2005
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    Summary: This land cover data of the Hudson River Valley (New York) has a 30m pixel resolution, and was derived from Landsat-5 satellite imagery from 1992 and 1993. The Hudson River Valley GAP Analysis Project (HRV-GAP) uses the New York State GAP Analysis Project (NY-GAP) database to perform analyses and answer research questions directly related to the Hudson River Valley (HRV).

  12. Title: PATH railroads, New Jersey 1995 verso

    • Not specified
    • 1995
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    Summary: Verso of illustrated map of the PATH railroads lines in New Jersey and New York City. This side shows schedule and rates.

  13. Title: PATH railroads, New Jersey 1995 map

    • Not specified
    • 1995
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    Summary: Illustrated map of the PATH and New Jersey Transit railroad lines in New Jersey and New York City from the vantage point of the World Trade Center in New York City. Distances of 15, 35 and 50 mile increments from the WTC are noted. Map also includes major streets of Manhattan in New York, and Bayonne, Hoboken, Jersey City and Union City in New Jersey.

  14. Title: A map of South America, Central America and the West Indies, on Mercator's projection, having special reference to the principal forest regions and the chief timber trees

    • Not specified
    • 1920
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    Summary: Mining recording divisions overprinted in red; shows roads and trails, railways, location of some mines and camps.; Verso: Sketch map of the southern portion of British Columbia indicating chief means of communication and agricultural and pastoral localities / Gotfred Jorgensen draughtsman ; The Colonist Lith., Victoria, B.C. -- Scale [1:3,484,800] ; 28.7 x 39.8 cm. ; (W 132∞ - W 114∞ / N 56∞ - N 48∞); Map of the Klondyke, Cassiar, Omineca and Cariboo gold fields shewing routes / compiled from the latest official reports for the British Columbia Board of Trade, Victoria, B.C. -- Scale [1:8,870,400] ; 25.3 x 18.8 cm. ; (W 144∞ - W 120∞ / N 70∞ - N 48∞). -- Inset: Key map shewing route to Klondyke via St. Michaels. -- 8.7 x 8.8 cm.; British Columbia progress illustrated graphically. -- 8 graphs.; From: The Year Book of British Columbia 1897. 68 x 91 centimeters

  15. Title: A Map of the world (on Mercator projection) having special reference to forest regions and the geographical disribution of timber trees

    • World maps
    • 1916
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    Summary: Includes text, two ancillary maps on Mollwiede's projection and cross section diagram showing vertical growth of mountains of the world. Contents: Annual isotherms and zones of tree-growth -- Annual rainfall -- Vertical distribution of tree growth on the principal mountains of the world. 66 x 92 centimeters

  16. Title: Soil map of Minnesota : showing mean annual rainfall, temperature, and dates of killing frosts

    • Not specified
    • 1913
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given. Copyright: Hudson Publishing Co. "Soil and rainfall data from Prof. N.H. Winchell's 'Atlas of the physical features of Minnesota' (by permission). Temperature from U.S. Govt. reports." Includes inset of northeast corner of Minnesota showing Cook County. 61 x 43 centimeters

  17. Title: Toms River, New Jersey lots

    • Not specified
    • 1869
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    Summary: Map published as part of announcement of the auctioning of the lots in Toms River on August 26, 1869. The stated auctioneer was Morris K. Crane of Trusdell and Crane, 35 Hudson St., Hoboken, N.J.

  18. Title: Peru, 1871 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mappa del Peru, por Daniel Barrera ; grabado por Erhard Schieble. It was published by Imprenta Lemercier in 1871. Scale [ca. 1:3,000,000]. Covers Peru and portions of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Ecuador. Map in Spanish.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'World Mercator' projection. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, canals, ports, administrative boundaries (including departamentos), mines and mineral locations, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  19. Title: Providence, Rhode Island, 1823 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the town of Providence : from actual survey, [by] Daniel Anthony. It was published in 1823. Scale not given. 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, drainage, selected points of interest, and more. Selected buildings are shown pictorially. Includes inset views: [View of Harbor] -- Hope College and University Hall. Also includes index to points of interest (schools, churches, banks, etc.). 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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