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  1. Title: Disputed territory in North America

    • Not specified
    • 1839
    Contributors:

    Summary: 1 map : hand col. ; 77 x 96 cm Relief shown by hachures. Shows disputed boundaries claimed by Great Britain and U.S. in Maine, New Brunswick and Quebec. Shows roads, rivers including portages, county boundaries, British posts, United States posts, and mountains. Annotations show boundary given by the King of Holland, British posts and United States posts. "Drawn in Transfer Lithography by L.J. Hebert, and Printed the Lithographic Establishment, Quarter Master Generals Office Horse Guards. June 1839." Date from note on map "Conventional line as agreed upon by Lord Ashburton and Mr. Daniel Wedster, 1842."

  2. Title: Map of The City Of San Francisco, California. Copied From Originals with Corrections and Additions. 1850. View of San Francisco in 1849. The Large Vessel At The Wharf is The "Apollo Store Ship. (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of one of the earliest maps of San Francisco, published just after the Eddy map of 1849. Not listed in Wheat, Peters, Heckrotte (unpublished list), auction records, or other authorities. Perhaps a unique survivor. Shows all streets, Agnew's Steamboat Landing, Central Wharf, and the Apollo Store Ship. Scale given in Mexican Varas. With an inset view of the city in 1849. Elevations of the hills and coastal cliffs are show with hachures. Harry J. Peters says of the Apollo Store Ship: It "was sent around the Horn from New York in 1849 to San Francisco. There it was beached & converted to a store & warehouse. This was often the fate of many ships in those days when whole crews would often desert ship & rush to the gold fields. It was also profitable to the owners to beach a vessel & turn it to just such uses as the Apollo, for San Francisco was largely a city of tents with few buildings either for homes or storage for the thousands of newcomers." The map was published by the Sun Lithographic Establishment, located next to the offices of the Sun newspaper in New York and probably affiliated with the newspaper. 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. Perkins Sun Lithographic Establishment. (2021). Map of The City Of San Francisco, California. Copied From Originals with Corrections and Additions. 1850. View of San Francisco in 1849. The Large Vessel At The Wharf is The "Apollo Store Ship. (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pn124cp0101 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  3. Title: National cemetery, Andersonville, Ga

    • Not specified
    • 1912
    Contributors:

    Summary: Negative blueprint photocopy.; "...Aug. 27, 1892. Revised May 4, 1912."; Includes location map of area including train depot, hospital, fort, prison, and cemetery.; "3"--upper right. 25 x 44 centimeters, on sheet 60 x 65 centimeters

  4. Title: North America: with its water courses and inland navigation.; Grand canal celebration

    • Not specified
    • 1825
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    Summary: Shows rivers, country borders, major cities. Alaska shown as Russian Territory. At lower left: "lithography of Imbert & Co." Possibly from Cadwallader Colden's "Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals", published in 1825. Tropic of Cancer is marked in lower left corner. 1 map; 19 x 24 cm.

  5. Title: Route map of the Bombay Presidency, including Scinde

    • Not specified
    • 1846
    Contributors:

    Summary: Prime meridian is Greenwich.; "Published according to Act of Parliament by John Walker, geographer to the Honble. East India Company Oct. 20th 1846."; Relief shown by hachures.; Includes two distance tables.; Shows boundaries of British possessions and possessions of the Rajas of Sattarah, Guickwar, Kolapoor, Cutch, and the Nizam of Hyderabad. 146 x 86 centimeters

  6. Title: Piscataquis County, Maine, 1858 (Image 1 of 2) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Piscataquis County Maine, from surveys under the direction of H. F. Walling; field notes under the direction of L. H. Eaton Esq. civil engineer. It was published by Lee & Marsh in 1858. Scale [ca 1:63,360]. This layer is image 1 of 2 total images, representing the northeast portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD1983). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages. It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances.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.

  7. Title: Penobscot County, Maine, 1859 (Image 2 of 2) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Topographical map of the county of Penobscot Maine, from surveys under the direction of H.F. Walling; field work under the direction of L.H. Eaton. It was published by Lee & Marsh in 1859, Scale 1:80,000. This layer is image 2 of 2 total images, representing the northeast portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD1983). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages. It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances.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.

  8. Title: Penobscot County, Maine, 1859 (Image 1 of 2) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Topographical map of the county of Penobscot Maine, from surveys under the direction of H.F. Walling; field work under the direction of L.H. Eaton. It was published by Lee & Marsh in 1859, Scale 1:80,000. This layer is image 1 of 2 total images, representing the southwest portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD1983). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages. It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances.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.

  9. Title: Piscataquis County, Maine, 1858 (Image 2 of 2) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Piscataquis County Maine, from surveys under the direction of H. F. Walling; field notes under the direction of L. H. Eaton Esq. civil engineer. It was published by Lee & Marsh in 1858. Scale [ca 1:63,360]. This layer is image 2 of 2 total images, representing the northwest portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD1983). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. It includes many cadastral insets of individual county towns and villages. It also includes illustrations, business directories, and tables of statistics and distances.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.

  10. Title: Northern Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1865 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of that part of the city of New York north of 155 street. It was published by Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co. in December 1865. Scale [ca. 1:6,375]. 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 and streets laid out by the Commissioners of the Central Park, drainage, bridges, selected buildings, and more. 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.

  11. Title: Southern metropolitan area : survey map of town planning policies

    • Image data
    • 1964
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by contours. Depths shown by isobaths. "Policies 1964" in lower right margin. Includes color coded legend showing two categories of roads, open and private spaces, reserves, rural, industrial, commercial, and living aras. Includes a written description of the proposed chenges and a list of the Southern Metropolitan Master Planning Authority.

  12. Title: Southern Metropolitan area : [Hobart Metropolitan area

    • Image data
    • 1963
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by isobaths. Topographic map showing cadastral boundaries. Map set covering Hobart and environs. Princeton Map Collection holds three maps of this set.

  13. Title: City of Hobart central business area

    • Image data
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: "Refer to this plan as: CBA-200." "Basic data by courtesy HCC."

  14. Title: City of Hobart central business area

    • Image data
    • 1960
    Contributors:

    Summary: "Refer to this plan as: CBA-200." "Basic data by courtesy HCC."

  15. Title: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative, Eastern Massachusetts, 1997 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative : developed land & open space. It was published by Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1997. Scale ca. 1:200,000. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also developed land and open space. 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.

  16. Title: Protected and Recreational Open Space, Hamilton, Massachusetts, 1997 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Protected and recreational open space mapping project : Hamilton. It was published by MassGIS in 1997. Scale 1:25,000. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also legend and ownership categories of protected and recreational open space. 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.

  17. Title: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative, Eastern Massachusetts, 1997 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative :developed land & open space. It was published by Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1997. Scale ca. 1:200,000. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, parks, land development, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also graphic titled, 'Land developed between 1970 and 1991 equals the acreage of 4-1/3 Bostons.' 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.

  18. Title: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative, Eastern Massachusetts, 1997 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Metropolitan Greenspace Initiative : developed land & open space. It was published by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1997. Scale ca. 1:400,000. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, parks, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also developed land and open space. 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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