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  1. 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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  2. Title: [Map of St. Paul] : prepared specially for R.L. Polk & Co.'s city directory, 1912.

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    Summary: 63 x 85 centimeters on sheet 69 x 105 centimeters Scale [1:19,200]. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  3. Title: Curtice's standard guide map of the city of St. Paul : prepared specially for R.L. Polk & Cos. city directory, 1897

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    Summary: 62 x 84 centimeters Scale 1:19,200. 1600 ft. to an in. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  4. Title: Curtice's standard guide map of the city of St. Paul : prepared specially for R.L. Polk & Cos. city directory, 1896

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    Summary: 62 x 84 centimeters on sheet 72 x 103 centimeters Scale [1:19,200]. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  5. Title: Curtice's standard guide map of the city of St. Paul : prepared especially for R.L. Polk & Cos. city directory, 1893

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    Summary: 62 x 83 centimeters Scale 1:19,200. 1600 ft. to an in. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  6. Title: Curtice's standard guide map of the city of St. Paul : prepared especially for R.L. Polk Cos. city directory, 1891

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    Summary: 63 x 83 centimeters on sheet 67 x 102 centimeters Scale [1:19,200]. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  7. Title: R.L. Polk & Co.'s directory map of the city of St. Paul, Minn

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    Summary: 62 x 82 centimeters Scale [1:19,200] Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  8. Title: Curtice's new pocket map of Saint Paul

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    Summary: Shows election district and city and ward boundaries.; Partially hand colored. 58 x 81 centimeters No scale given Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  9. Title: R.L. Polk & Co.'s city directory map of St. Paul, Minn

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    Summary: From: R.L. Polk & Co.'s St. Paul city directory / R.L. Polk & Co. 1884.; Includes street index. 45 x 55 centimeters Scale approximately 1:15,840 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  10. Title: Louisiana by de Rivier Missisippi

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially.; Hand colored.; Shows Mississippi River Valley and Great Lakes region, emphasizing French possessions and Indian settlements. Includes locations of forts, proposed colonial settlements, and Indian villages. Also shows tributary rivers of the Mississippi River, including the R. Ouisconsing and R. Otenta (Missouri River).; Includes title cartouche incorporating arms of John Law in upper right.; Includes company seal of the Mississippi Company in upper left.; "D" handwritten in ink in upper right margin. 19 x 16 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  11. Title: New Jersey

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "69." From: Our U.S.A. / text by Frank J. Taylor ; maps by Ruth Taylor. Boston, Mass. : Little Brown & Co.,1935.

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  12. Title: Detail Showing Principal Pleasure Grounds (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced of a plan titled "Detail Showing Principal Pleasure Grounds," This plan, created by Frederick Law Olmstead, originally appeared in "Preliminary Report in Regard to a Plan of Public Pleasure Grounds for the City of San Francisco," (Wm. C. Bryant & Co., New York, 1866). 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. Olmstead, F. (2021). Detail Showing Principal Pleasure Grounds (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nc805rf6310 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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  13. Title: Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts, 1885 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: General plan of Franklin Park, [by] City of Boston, Park Dept. ; Fredk. Law Olmsted, landscape architect ; William Jackson, city engineer ; Wm. M. Coombs, del. It was published in 1885. Scale [ca. 1:2,700]. Shows park paths and drives, and park features and areas (fields, hills, gardens, grounds, woods, etc.) Relief is shown by spot heights. The map includes a descriptive text, an index map with key, and tables: distances from park, areas, and lengths of ways. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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 layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  14. Title: Preliminary study of a plan for a pleasure bay between Dorchester Point and Castle Island

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    Summary: Inset: Boston harbor. 55 x 50 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,650 City Maps

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  15. Title: Preliminary study of a plan for a pleasure bay between Dorchester Point and Castle Island

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    Summary: Inset: Boston harbor. 55 x 50 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,650 General Map Collection

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  16. Title: World (Ore deposits, 2003)

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    • 2003
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    Summary: Ore deposits.MRDS contains variable-length records of metallic andnonmetallic mineral resources of the world. A recordcontains descriptive information about mineral deposits andmineral commodities. The types of information in the database include deposit name, location, commodity, depositdescription, geologic characteristics, production,reserves, potential resources, and references. The MineralResource Data System master database is not accessible viathe WWW. The large number of multi-valued fields make itdifficult to import all the fields into a data format thatcan be utilized by the ArcView Internet Map ServerSoftware. This dataset contains all MRDS locations, butonly 44 of the possible 226 fields. A data structure wascreated in Access 97. Data was imported into the filestructure and then processed into Arc View, where it wastransformed into shape files that are used by the IMSsoftware to serve the MRDS data and permit access via the www.

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  17. Title: Map of Detroit.

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    Summary: Map of the city of Detroit. In printed paper covers. "Christian Endeavor International Convention, 1899." "Compliments of Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Co." Includes text and ill. Text., ill., and index on verso. Shows street railroads. "Copyright 1897-1899 by Silas Farmer." 1 map: col.; 35 x 44 cm., folded in cover 12 x 8 cm.

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  18. Title: New map and guide of the city and environs of Detroit.

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows wards and streetcar lines. "Copyright 1895 by Silas Farmer." Includes street index and guide to "latest changes in street names." "Information indexed, a dictionary of Detroit and its environs" and ill. on verso. 1 map: col.; 69 x 73 cm. folded to 13 x 10 cm.

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  19. Title: Proposed Canal Route, New York, 1811 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the western part of the state of New York : shewing the route of a proposed canal from Lake Erie to Hudson's river, compiled by John H. Eddy, from the best authorities ; engraved by P. Maverick, Newark. It was published in 1811. Scale [1:950,400]. Covers also a portion of the Province of Ontario, Canada. 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 canals, roads, drainage, cities and towns, counties, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes: Profile of levels on the route of the [Erie] canal. 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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  20. Title: Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1817 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of New-York : the greater part from actual survey made expressly for the purpose (the rest from authentic documents), by Thos. H. Poppleton, city surveyor ; P. Maverick sc.. It was published by Prior & Dunning in 1817. Scale [ca. 1:7,300]. Covers Manhattan below 31st St. 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, drainage, city wards, ferry lines, wharves, house numbers, selected places of interest, and houses with family names in less developed part of city. Includes key to places of interest. 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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