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  1. Title: Map of the city of San Francisco showing the streets and the burnt area, 1906 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of San Francisco showing the burned areas of San Francisco resulting the Earthquake in 1906. The original map appears in Carnegie Institution Of Washington. Atlas Of Maps And Seismograms Accompanying The Report Of The State Earthquake Investigation Commission Upon The California Earthquake Of April 18,1906. Andrew C. Lawson, G.K. Gilbert, H.F. Reid, J.C. Branner, A.O. Leuschner, George Davidson, Charles Burckhalter, W.W. Campbell. Washington, D.C. 1908. 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. California. State Earthquake Investigation Commission and Britton & Rey. (2018). Map of the city of San Francisco showing the streets and the burnt area, 1906 (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/bm594nd9684 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: Exhibit "B"

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Map detached from "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the final report of Secretary Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in the City of San Francisco, Cal.," issued as a U.S. Senate document (Serial Set 5070 S.doc.147), December 18, 1906. Shows location of "The Oriental School"; locations of "schools the Japanese pupils attended" prior to a Board of Education order of October 11, 1906, transferring them to the "Oriental School" in the burned area of the city; and residences of pupils, with the number of pupils given for each school and residence. Portion of title supplied by cataloger, derived from text on page 5 of the Senate document from which the map was extracted.

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  3. Title: Official railroad map of California

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights and shading.; Includes inset maps "San Francisco and vicinity", "Los Angeles and vicinity", "City of Sacramento", "San Diego and vicinity", information on railroads and index. 122 x 98 centimeters

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  4. Title: Global GIS : Earthquake epicenters (1973-2003)

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    Summary: This datalayer is a point coverage representing earthquake epicenters (1973 through March, 2003). Historical data for this layer were derived from: USGS/NEIC, 1973- March 2003: (PDE) Preliminary Determinations of Epicenters, Monthly Listing. This list is the most complete computation of hypocenters and magnitudes done by the USGS NEIC. It is normally produced a few months after the events occur. The publication is called 'Preliminary' because the 'final' computation of hypocenters for the world is considered to be the Bulletin of the Internation Seismological Centre (ISC), which is produced about two years after the earthquakes occur. The NEIC PDE program contributes about one-third off all data used by the ISC.

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  5. Title: Global GIS : Significant earthquakes (2150 B.C. until 1994 A.D.)

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    Summary: This shapefile includes points which represent locations of significant historical earthquakes worldwide documented from 2150 B.C. until 1994 A.D. Data included here was derived from the 'Catalog of Significant Earthquakes 2150 B.C. to the present : including quantitative casualties and damage,' by Paula K. Dunbar, Patricia A. Lockridge, and Lowell S. Whitewide (a National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) publication). Post-1991 data is supplemented by the USGS/National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC). This catalog is available as an online database, with significant earthquake data kept up-to-date, on the NGDC Web site. The events were gathered from scientific and scholarly sources, regional and worldwide catalogs, and individual event reports. The list includes all events that meet at least one of the following criteria: Moderate damage (approximately $1 million or more); Ten or more deaths; Magnitude 7.5 or greater; Intensity X or greater (for events lacking magnitude)

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  6. Title: State Highway System of Indiana

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    Summary: Description based on: 1972-73. Dimensions: col. maps, 94 x 59 cm. folded to 24 x 12 cm.

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  7. Title: Official highway map of Texas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Inset local through routes: San Antonio -- Austin -- Waco -- Ft. Worth -- Dallas -- Beaumont -- Houston.; Text and illus. on verso. 62 x 62 centimeters, folded to 21 x 11 centimeters

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  8. Title: Official highway service map of Wisconsin, 1928

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    Summary: Includes distance finding table and explanation of its use.; "This map issued weekly during the construction season by the Wisconsin Highway Commission."; Lacking color overprints.; 17 city insets. 111 x 95 centimeters

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  9. Title: State Highway Department's map of the state of Oregon : showing main traveled automobile roads

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; On verso: Text, mileage tables and 2 ancillary maps.; In lower right corner: "E.A. Skelley." 44 x 58 centimeters

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  10. Title: State Highway Department's map of the state of Oregon showing main traveled automobile roads

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; In lower right: "E. A. Skelley."; Includes text, mileage tables and ancillary map on verso. 39 x 52 centimeters

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  11. Title: Official highway service map of Wisconsin, 1925

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    Summary: Lacks color overprint indicating construction work.; "Map revised weekly. Note date."; "It's harder to get lost in Wisconsin than to find the way in many states."; Includes mileage chart. 115 x 102 centimeters

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  12. Title: Official highway map of Wisconsin : "The playground of the middle west"

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    Summary: Showing the state trunk highway system also the more important trunk highways.; Includes text. 60 x 52 centimeters

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  13. Title: Scioto County

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    Summary: Scale [1:126,720]. 1 in. = 2 miles. Copyright 1919 by Clinton Cowen, State Highway Commissioner for the state of Ohio. Includes "Explanation." Text and statistics on verso.

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  14. Title: Official map of the state trunk highway system of Wisconsin

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    Summary: Cover title: 1918 official map of the state trunk highway system of Wisconsin.; "Poole Bros., Chicago."--Lower left corner.; Booklet compiled by A.R. Hirst.; Includes index. 61 x 50 centimeters

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  15. Title: Map of Minnesota : showing status of state road construction

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:760,320]. 12 miles to 1 in. 87 x 77 centimeters

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  16. Title: Map of Minnesota : showing status of state road construction

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    Summary: 87 x 77 centimeters

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  17. Title: Map of Minnesota : showing status of state bridge construction

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    Summary: 87 x 77 centimeters

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  18. Title: Map of Minnesota showing state roads and state rural highways : prepared for State Highway Commission

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    Summary: 64 x 58 centimeters

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  19. Title: Map of Minnesota showing state roads and state rural highways : prepared for State Highway Commission

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    Summary: 64 x 58 centimeters

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  20. Title: River surveys : [maps and profiles to accompany report of the water resources investigation of Minnesota, 1909-1912], Volume 2

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scales vary. Adolph O. Eberhart, Samuel G. Iverson, Julius A. Schmidt, State Drainage Commission; George A. Ralph, chief engineer; Robert Follansbee, district engineer, U.S. Geological Survey. 45 x 51 centimeters or larger

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