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  1. Title: Powell Plaza (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map showing Powell Plaza (San Francisco). The original map was created in 1963 by the San Francisco Department of City Planning, and Mario J. Ciampi. 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. Ciampi, M. and San Francisco Department of City Planning. (2018). Powell Plaza (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/kk722zn5346 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: Downtown Design Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image showing a plan of downtown San Francisco The original map is part of the 1963 Downtown San Francisco Plan created by the Department of City Planning and the architectural consultant Mario J. Ciampi. 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. San Francisco Department of City Planning and Ciampi, M. (2018). Downtown Design Plan (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/sc701bn0182 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: Fulton Circle (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a plan of Fulton Mall from the 1963 Downtown San Francisco Plan. The plan was originally prepared by the staff of the Dept. of City Planning and the architectural consultant Mario J. Ciampi. 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. San Francisco Department of City Planning and Ciampi, M. (2018). Fulton Circle (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/mw570jd1313 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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  4. Title: Buenos Aires : guía y plano - zona urbana

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    Summary: Oriented with north towards lower right corner. Map shows color coded administrative [partidos] boundaries, street names, four classes of roads, railroads, subways, and airports.

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  5. Title: La Habana

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    Summary: Map in 4 sheets is put together as 1. Oriented to northwest. On recto: Map of Habana on sheets marked 1-4 showing roads, water features, built-up areas, facilities of intersest, monuments, schools, stations, and hospitals. On verso: Images with text and key in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. Ancillary maps of Santa Fé, Rancho Boyeros, Cojimar and Alamar, and Cotorro marked 1a-4a.

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  6. Title: Herzogthum Nassau, Landgrafschaft Hessen Homburg und die Freie Stadt Frankfurt a/M entw. u. gez. von J. Grassl. 1851. (with) Plan von Wiesbaden. (with) Frankfurt a/M. (with) Landgrafs. Hessen Homburg, Herrschaft Meisenheim. Stich, Druck und Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts in Hildburghausen, (1860) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Nassau, Germany created in 1851. The original map appears in "Grosser Hand - Atlas Uber Alle Theile Der Erde In 170 Karten. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer. Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  7. Title: Neueste Karte von Kurfurstenthum Hessen. Nach den besten Quellen entw. u. geziecht 1844. Von Joseph Graessl. (with) Der Kreis Schaumburg. (with) Umgegend von Cassel. Eigenthum und Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts zu Hildburghausen, Amsterdam, Paris u. Philadelphia (1860) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Hesse, Germany created in 1844. The original map appears in "Grosser Hand - Atlas Uber Alle Theile Der Erde In 170 Karten. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer. Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  8. Title: [Map of part of northeastern Virginia] This map is the result of horseback surveys made by the writer and donor and other members.

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. "Engraved by J. Schedler 120 Pearl St. N.York." Manuscript note reads "This map is the result of horseback surveys made by the writer and donor and other members of the Topograhical Department of the Army of the Potomac and was used by Gen'l Hancock in Grant's first campaign in Virginia in the Sring of 1864. S. Alexander, Topographic Engineer, 3rd Corps Army of the Potomac. 822 Oakland Ave, Ann Arbor, Mich., Oct. 18th, 1905." 1 map: mounted on cloth; 72 x 91 cm

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  9. Title: Map of n. eastern Virginia and vicinity of Washington surveys for military defenses; compiled at Topographical Engineers office at Division headquarters ofGeneral Irvin McDowell.; Map of north eastern Virginia and vicinity of Washington

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Arlington, January 1st 1862 from published and manuscript maps corrected by recent Surveys and Reconnaissances." "Engraved on stone by J. Schedler No. 120 Pearl St. N.Y." Includes table of "Elevations above tide water", "Geological profile of Loudoun County" and list of "Data used in compilation." 1 map: mounted on cloth; 167 x 127 cm

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  10. Title: Map of British Guiana : from the latest surveys of Schomburgk, Owen, Hilhouse, & others ; & those of Hancock, Van-Cooten, Bouchenroeder, & Bercheyck ...

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Hand col. shows cultivated and previously cultivated lands; shows also pariochial divisions, etc.; "Respectfully dedicated to His Excellency Henry Light Esqr., Governor ... by His Excellency's very obedient, humble servant J. Hadfield, Crown Surveyor ..." 41 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,520,640 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Geologic map of the Long Island Lake quadrangle, Cook County, Minnesota, M-46

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of the Long Island Lake quadrangle, scale 1:24,000.

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  12. Title: Carte indiquant specialement le comte de Pontiac dans la province de Quebec

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    Summary: Probable date of publication from catalog card. 60 x 64 centimeters Scale approximately 1:900,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota : and the north western part of Wisconsin

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    Summary: Shows Wadena and Beltrami counties and portion of Morrison County extending west of the Mississippi; Cook County not shown.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1857 by J.S. Sewall in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Second District of Minnesota."; Originally folded in cover (15 x 10 cm).; Inside front cover: Sewall's map of Minnesota, sold ... by D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co., agents ... St. Paul, July 1, 1867. 81 x 59 Centimeters Scale approximately 1:760,320. 1 inch = 12 miles General Minnesota Maps

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  14. Title: Carte topographique qui comprend la partie septentrionale du Landgraviat de Hesse Cassel et de la Principauté de Waldeck, l'Eveché de Paderborn, partie du Comté de Grubenhague et les frontieres de ses etats

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    Summary: Map of the former landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the former principality of Waldeck. Relief shown by hachures. Wooded areas shown pictorially.

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  15. Title: Map showing change in white and non-white population in Hyde Park, 1950-1956 /map prepared by Sol Tax for paper on problems of the local community, given Feb. 4, 1957; data from urban renewal survey, N.O.R.C., & Chic. Community Inventory.

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    Summary: Shows ethnic change by block.; Scale [ca. 1:5,800]; ms., color; Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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  16. Title: The Arctic regions : comprising the most recent explorations of Robert E. Peary, Fridtjof Nansen and F. Jackson

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows routes of explorers, with dates of discoveries.

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  17. Title: Preliminary map of Kentucky

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    Summary: At head of title: Printed for the State Inspector of Mines by the Kentucky Geological Survey.; Shows railroads and number of commercially important coal mines.; Relief shown by hachures.; Prime meridian: Washington.; Includes 2 cross sections. 33 x 64 centimeters Scale [1:1,267,200] 20 miles - 1 inch General Map Collection

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  18. Title: Assessed value of lands per acre as equated by the Minnesota Tax Commission

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    Summary: Shows county land values for 1922, 1924 and 1926. 62 x 47 Centimeters Scale (approximately 1:1,560,000) General Minnesota Maps

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  19. Title: Geological map of the environs of Marquette, Negaunee and Ishpeming; by C. Rominger.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Julius Bien, lith. N.Y." From Rominger, Carl Ludwig. Upper Peninsula, 1878-1880, accompanied by a geological map. New York: Julius Bien, 1881. 1 map: hand col.; 46 x 76 cm

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  20. Title: Geological map of the Lower Peninsula; by C. Rominger, State Geologist; Julius Bien lith.

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    Summary: Detached from: Lower Peninsula, 1873-1876, accompanied by a geological map / C. Rominger. New York: Julius Bien, 1876. Vol. III. Prime meridian: [Washington, D.C.?]. "Atlas of Michigan 69A" written in pencil at bottom of map. 1 map: col.; 57 x 46 cm., folded to 15 x 22 cm.

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