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  1. Title: San Francisco, California, 1863 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the City & County of San Francisco : carefully compiled from recent surveys, including all new additions of cities, towns, and villas, delineating the lines of ranchos, private claims water works, railroads, &c. &c., drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal by James Butler. It was published by Britton & Co. in 1863. Scale [1:15,840].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (Zone III) (in Feet) (Fipszone 0403). 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, shoreline features, property lots, numbers and landowner names, reserved government properties, ranchos, city boundaries, cemeteries, water works, 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.

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  2. Title: Map of the City and County of San Francisco: carefully compiled from recent surveys ... Drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal. By James Butler 1864. (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of San Francisco from 1864. 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. Butler, J. (2021). Map of the City and County of San Francisco: carefully compiled from recent surveys ... Drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal. By James Butler 1864.. (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xj983zr6622 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: Map of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "12"--Lower right. Though likely produced in 1873, county boundaries shown date from some time in the 1860s. Likely from: The people's pictorial atlas / Jones and Hamilton, 1873. 42 x 30 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,500,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: New York Railroads, 1857 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York, prepared under the direction of Silas Seymour, state engineer surveyor ; drawn by David Vaughn. It was published by C. Van Benthuysen in 1857. Scale [ca. 1:1,000,000]. Covers New York and portions of surrounding states and provinces. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 roads, railroads (completed and proposed), canals, drainage, selected cities and towns, county and state boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. 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.

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  5. Title: Punjab Region, India & Pakistan, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of Punjab and protected Sikh states : including the British provinces to the South, as far as the parallel of Agra & Jessulmair. It was published by William Rushton in 1849. Scale [ca. 1:1,350,000]. Covers the Punjab region, India and Pakistan, and a portion of Afghanistan.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. 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, territorial and administrative boundaries, 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. 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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  6. Title: Map of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta

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    Summary: Shows main political divisions and dominion electoral divisions.; Relief shown by spot heights.; "Corrected to May 1st, 1905." 96 x 197 centimeters Scale 1:792,000; 12.5 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  7. Title: New Brunswick Charlotte, St. John, Kings, Queens, Sunbury, York, Carleton, Victoria, Northumerland, Glouceater and portions of Albert, Westmorland, Kent, Restigouche and Madawaska counties

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    Summary: Standard topographical map. Sheet 13 at head of map.; Depths shown in fathoms. 80 x 52 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Explorations in northern Canada and adjacent portions of Greenland and Alaska, 1904

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    Summary: Includes lists of coast explorations and track expeditions. 63 x 90 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,800,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Relief map of the Dominion of Canada

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    Summary: Shows existing railroads and connecting lines in the United States. 44 x 93 centimeters Scale 1:6,336,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Assiniboia

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    Summary: Map shows land district boundaries in Assiniboia District, which is now Saskatchewan. Relief shown by shading and spot heights.; Inset: Hawaiian Archipelago, scale [approximately 1:9,500,000].; Includes table of distances "from Honolulu to the principal ports of the Pacific." 50 x 99 centimeters Scale 1:792,000; 12 1/2 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Fraser's travelling map of Ireland shewing all the towns, lakes, rivers, roads and railways, with the distances marked between all the towns, railway stations, and other important places

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights. Originally issued folded in covers 21 x 13 cm.

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  12. Title: London, England, 1851 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Reynolds's map of London : with the latest improvements, drawn & engraved by H. Martin. It was published by J. Reynolds in 1851. Scale [ca. 1:16,000]. 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, railroads, drainage, buildings, parks, docks, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. 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.

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  13. Title: Plan of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Fort Donelson and its outwork, surveyed under the direction of Lieut. Col. J. B. McPherson, A.D.C. & Capt. of Engineers, by Lieuts. Janney and Kossak in February 1862. Published by authority of the Hon. the Secretary of War, office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1875. It was published by Bell Bros., Photo-Lithographers in 1875. Scale [ca. 1:7,200].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tennessee State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 4100) coordinate system. 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, roads, cities and other human settlements, shoreline features, fortification, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also vegetation, houses, fences, a plan of Dover, fallen timber, enemy's tents and log huts, water batteries, entrenchments, Grant's headquarters, and the location of the divisions of General Smith, General Wallace, and General McClernand. A profile of the fort, another profile of the rifle pits, and one of the water battery appear on the left side of the map.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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  14. Title: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Sketch showing the relative positions of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson : also the roads connecting the two positions, drawn under the direction of Lieut. Col. J.B. McPherson, A.D.C. & Capt. of Engineers. It was published by Office of the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army in 1875. Scale [ca. 1:95,040].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Tennessee State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 4100) coordinate system. 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, roads, cities and other human settlements, shoreline features, fortification, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also the roads connecting the two positions.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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  15. Title: Geologic map of the State of California

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Also shows oil fields. 146 x 119 centimeters on 2 sheets 79 x 124 centimeters Scale approximately 1:750,000 General Map Collection

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  16. Title: Reynolds' large coloured map of London and its suburbs, with visitor's guide, street directory, views, etc.; At head of title: New edition;Title on map: Reynold's new map of London a d its suburbs

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    Summary: Includes index 1 map: col.; 64 x 96 cm., folded in cover text 40 p.; 19 cm.

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  17. Title: Plan of Fort Donelson and outworks

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    Summary: Scale 1:7,200. 600 ft. to 1 in.; 1 map; 51 x 43 cm Fort Donelson (Tenn.)--History--Maps

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  18. Title: Sketch showing the relative positions of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, also the roads connecting the two positions

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    Summary: Scale 1:95,040. 1 1/2 miles to an in.; 1 map: color; 40 x 55 cm Fort Henry Region (Tenn.)--Maps

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  19. Title: Plan of Fort Donelson and its outworks

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    Summary: Scale [1:7,200]. 200 yds. to 1 in.; 1 map: color; 51 x 44 cm Fort Donelson (Tenn.)--History--Maps

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  20. Title: Reynolds's map of modern London : divided into quarter mile sections

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    Summary: 48 x 73 centimeters Scale approximately 1:18,400 City Maps

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