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  1. Title: Battlefield of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia and vicinity, 1864 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map: Map of the battle field of Spottsylvania C.H. : showing the field of operations of the Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade U.S.A., from May 8th to 21st, 1865 [i.e. 1864], surveyed under the orders of Bvt. Col. J.C. Duane, Major of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac, by Bvt. Maj. C.W. Howell, 1st Lieut. of Engineers ; assisted by Messrs. L.C. Oswell, L. Bell, and R.B. Talfor ; J. Bien, lithographer, New York. It was published ca. 1865. Scale [1:15,840]. Covers area surrounding Spotsylvania and Spotsylvania Battlefield, Virginia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Virginia State Plane North Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 4501). 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, dwellings with names of inhabitants, vegetation, Union and Confederate troop lines and defenses, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes note. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  2. Title: Imagined San Francisco

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    Summary: 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.

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  3. Title: Map of the great roads in New Brunswick, 1858 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the great roads in New Brunswick. It was published by: C. W. Cottrell in 1858. Scale approximately 1:511,000. Map in English. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the NAD 1983 CSRS New Brunswick Stereographic (EPSG: 2953) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  4. Title: Union City, Indiana & Ohio

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    Summary: Date 2-10-66.' Indexed for points of interest. Scale not given. Dwg. by C.W. Bower; courtesy of Indiana & Michigan Electric Co.

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  5. Title: Map of the Licking Reservoir

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    Summary: made under the direction of the Ohio Canal Commission from W.C. Row's Survey ; A.H. Sawyer, E. E. Booton, Draughtsmen. Also shows land ownership in area adjacent to the reservoir. Scale approximatedly [1:14,400]

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  6. Title: To the Legislature and the Governor of Pennsylvania this map is respectfully inscribed

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows minor civil divisions.; Dedicated to the Legislature and the Governor.; From: American State Papers, Class X, Misc 1, opp. p 830.; Wheat and Brun 443. 44 x 65 centimeters Scale approximately 1:760,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: To the Legislature and the Governor of Pennsylvania this map is respectfully inscribed

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows minor civil divisions.; Dedicated to the Legislature and the Governor.; From: American State Papers, Class X, Misc 1, opp. p 830.; Wheat and Brun 443. 44 x 65 centimeters Scale approximately 1:760,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: A map of the State of Pennsylvania

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:295,000; 1 map: color; 96 x 163 cm Administrative and political divisions.

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  9. Title: A map of the state of Pennsylvania

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    Summary: The dedication below the title cartouche reads "To Thomas Mifflin Governor, the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, this map is respectfully inscribed by the author". Below the dedication is a scene of a dock-side ship named "PENN." At the top center of map is a copyright statement beginning: "District of Pennsylvania to wit. be it remembered, that on the eleventh day of January in the fifteenth year of the independence of the United States of America, came Reading Howell ... " According to Wheat and Brun, the map was published from four plates and each plate was published over a period of time. Relief shown by hachures. Shows county boundaries, towns, villages, forges, mills, houses, some names of property owners, roads and inland navigation. This map was Howell's first map of Pennsylvania, published after the Republic was established. Historic Maps copy has boundaries and names of counties founded after 1792 added in ms. 1 August, 1792.

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  10. Title: Seattle, Washington, 1890 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Whitney's map of Seattle and environs, Washington, compiled from official records by O.P. Anderson and Co., engineers and draughtsmen, 1890. It was published by W.H. Whitney in 1890. Scale [ca. 1:30,600]. Covers portions of Seattle and surrounding cities. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Washington State Plane North Coordinate System HARN NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 4601). 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, ferry lines, drainage, names of selected landowners, and more. Includes insets of the Seattle region and the state of Washington, and Union Pacific Railroad Co. logo. 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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  11. Title: Whitney's map of Portland and environs

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    Summary: Shows additions, lot numbers, street names, and railroads. Inset: Map showing relation of Oregon City & Vancouver to Portland. "Prepared for Borthwick, Batty & Co., dealers in real estate and loans." City boundary highlighted with red overprint. Map has public land (township, range, and section) grid. Map carries the logo of the Union Pacific Railroad. Includes financial statistics for Portland in the lower right corner. 89 x 61 centimeters Scale approximately 1:22,500. City Maps

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  12. Title: Jerusalem, 1868 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, surveyed by C.W. Wilson, CE, in 1864-5 and engraved under the direction of Colonel J. Cameron; the hills by D. Law. It was published by Ordnance Survey Office in 1868. Scale 1:10,000. Covers Jerusalem. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Israel Transverse Mercator (ESRI: Israel_TM_Grid) 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 roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. 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: Vigo County

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    Summary: Shows dirt roads and improved public roads, railroads, school houses, cemeteries, and churches. Detached from: Soil survey of Clay, Knox, Sullivan, and Vigo counties, Indiana / Chas. W. Shannon. In 36th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:63,360 C.W. & M.E. Shannon, 1911.

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  14. Title: Sullivan County soil map

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    Summary: Shows dirt roads and improved public roads, railroads, schools, cemeteries, churches, and coal mines. Detached from: Soil survey of Clay, Knox, Sullivan, and Vigo counties, Indiana / Chas. W. Shannon. In 36th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:63,360 C.W. & M.E. Shannon, 1911.

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  15. Title: Clay County soil map

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    Summary: Shows dirt roads and improved public roads, railroads, schools, cemeteries, churches, and mines. Detached from: Soil survey of Clay, Knox, Sullivan, and Vigo counties, Indiana / Chas. W. Shannon. In 36th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:63,360 C.W. & M.E. Shannon, 1912.

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  16. Title: Knox County

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    Summary: Shows soil types, dirt roads, improved roads, railroads, schools, cemeteries, and churches. Detached from: Soil survey of Clay, Knox, Sullivan, and Vigo counties, Indiana / Chas. W. Shannon. In 36th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:86,000 C.W. & M.E. Shannon, 1912.

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  17. Title: Pike County soil map

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    Summary: Shows railroads and 3 classes of roads. Detached from: A soil survey of Vanderburgh, Gibson, and Pike, and parts of Warrick and Spencer counties / Chas. W. Shannon. In 34th Annual report of the [Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources. 'U.S. topographic sheets; state geological maps; field work 1909.' Scale approximately 1:126,720 C.W. and M.E. Shannon.

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  18. Title: Gibson County soil map

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    Summary: Shows public roads and railroads. Detached from: A soil survey of Vanderburgh, Gibson, and Pike, and parts of Warrick and Spencer counties / Chas. W. Shannon. In 34th Annual report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources. 'U.S. topographic sheets; State geological maps; field work 1909.' Scale approximately 1:126,720 C.W. and M.E. Shannon.

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  19. Title: Vanderburgh County soil map

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    Summary: Shows railroads and public roads. Detached from: A soil survey of Vanderburgh, Gibson, and Pike, and parts of Warrick and Spencer counties / Chas. W. Shannon. In 34th Annual report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources. Scale approximately 1:126,720 C.W. Shannon.

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  20. Title: Maine, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Colton's railroad & township map of the state of Maine, with portions of New Hampshire, New Brunswick & Canada. It was published in 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. and C.C. Hall. Scale [ca. 1:550,000]. Covers Maine and portions of New Hampshire and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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, railroads, drainage, town, county, state, and national boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables of statistics. 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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