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  1. Title: San Francisco, California, 1863 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the City & County of San Francisco : carefully compiled from recent surveys, including all new additions of cities, towns, and villas, delineating the lines of ranchos, private claims water works, railroads, &c. &c., drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal by James Butler. It was published by Britton & Co. in 1863. Scale [1:15,840].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (Zone III) (in Feet) (Fipszone 0403). 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, shoreline features, property lots, numbers and landowner names, reserved government properties, ranchos, city boundaries, cemeteries, water works, and more.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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  2. Title: Map of the Rufu or Kingani River (Eastern Africa)

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Major settlements, roads, and ferries are shown. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 47, (1877), pp. 253-67; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.47 1877

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  3. Title: The Downs

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    Summary: Map of the English coast from Dover to Epple Bay. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings and isolines. At head of title: England, S.E. coast. "1828." Historic Maps copy has labels on verso: "East Coast of England. Downs, with South and Queens Channels, with Views" and "No. 1828."

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  4. Title: Campus map, The University of Iowa, between 1950 and 1955

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    Summary: 6 black & white photographs 12 × 17 cm

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  5. Title: Maldives, 1902 (Image 1 of 3) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Trigonometrical survey of the Maldive Islands, by Commander R. Moresby, assisted by Lieut. F.T. Powell, Indian Navy ; additions and corrections by Professor A. Agassiz, Mr. Stanley Gardiner and Mr. L. A. Molony, 1902 ; eng. by J. & C. Walker. Sheet 1. It was published by Hydrographic Office, 1904. Scale [ca. 1:310,000]. This layer is image 1 of 3 total images of the three sheet source map representing the northern portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 drainage, human settlements, ground cover, shoreline features, inlets, lagoons, shoals, sand banks, atolls, islands and islets, points, rocks, bottom types, and more. Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes notes on navigation and locations of potable water. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  6. Title: Maldives, 1902 (Image 3 of 3) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Trigonometrical survey of the Maldive Islands, by Commander R. Moresby, assisted by Lieut. F.T. Powell, Indian Navy ; additions and corrections by Professor A. Agassiz, Mr. Stanley Gardiner and Mr. L. A. Molony, 1902 ; eng. by J. & C. Walker. Sheet 3. It was published by Hydrographic Office, 1904. Scale [ca. 1:310,000]. This layer is image 3 of 3 total images of the three sheet source map representing the southern portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 drainage, human settlements, ground cover, shoreline features, inlets, lagoons, shoals, sand banks, atolls, islands and islets, points, rocks, bottom types, and more. Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes notes on navigation and locations of potable water. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  7. Title: Maldives, 1902 (Image 2 of 3) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Trigonometrical survey of the Maldive Islands, by Commander R. Moresby, assisted by Lieut. F.T. Powell, Indian Navy ; additions and corrections by Professor A. Agassiz, Mr. Stanley Gardiner and Mr. L. A. Molony, 1902 ; eng. by J. & C. Walker. Sheet 2. It was published by Hydrographic Office, 1904. Scale [ca. 1:310,000]. This layer is image 2 of 3 total images of the three sheet source map representing the central portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 drainage, human settlements, ground cover, shoreline features, inlets, lagoons, shoals, sand banks, atolls, islands and islets, points, rocks, bottom types, and more. Relief shown by spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes notes on navigation and locations of potable water. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  8. Title: Map of Anoka and Ramsey counties : with adjacent portions of Hennepin, Carver, Wright, Sherburne, Chisago, Washington and Dakota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:36,205 ; 1 3/4 in. to a mile (W 93‚Å∞42 π--W 92‚Å∞57 π/N 45‚Å∞25 π--N 44‚Å∞50 π). Cadastral map showing landowners. 156 x 182 centimeters 1:36,205 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  9. Title: Map of Stearns County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:57,000. Facsimile: location of original and date of reproduction unknown. Scale of original [1:45,258], engraved by William Bracher and printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia, hand colored by C. Kaufmann and mounted by Smith & Stroup. Summary: Shows land ownership. 1 map on 2 sheets; east sheet and west sheet. 101 x 160 centimeters Scale approximately 1:57,000 Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  10. Title: The Harbour of San Francisco, Nueva California. (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map titled "The Harbour of San Francisco, Nueva California." Chart No. 591. From the Warren Heckrotte Auction catalog: "Very rare and important chart of San Francisco Bay, the result of the first scientific mapping of the Bay. Neil Harlow states that the chart "had a wide influence upon later maps of the area. The chart, with copies and adaptations of it, served to the end of the Mexican period and formed the substantial basis of the earliest ones produced under the American regime. It was deficient only in the region beyond Carquinez Strait..." Harlow notes the chart of the entrance contains "additional hydrographic data pertinent to entering the port and reaching the chief places of anchorage. Accompanying the chart are elevation views depicting the approaches to the bay and the hazards to navigation." 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. 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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  11. 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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  12. Title: Bath Region, England, 1744 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An actual survey of the city of Bath, in the county of Somerset, and of five miles round : wherein are laid down all the villages, gentlemen's seats, farm houses, roads, high-ways, rivers, water courses, & all things worthy of observation, survey'd by Tho. Thorpe in the year 1742 ; engrav'd by James Cole. It was published by Thomas Thorpe, and Mr. Leake & Mr. Frederick Booksellers in 1743/4 [i.e. 1744]. Scale [ca. 1:16,300]. Covers the Bath Region, England.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National 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, selected names of landowners, ground cover, parks, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also index and a list of subscribers.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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  13. Title: ?les Gambier, French Polynesia, 1906 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Manga Reva or Gambier Islands, compiled from surveys by Capt[n] F.W. Beechey, R.N.F.R.S. 1826 Capt[n] D'Urville of the French Navy 1838; with corrections from other French Govern[t] Surveys to 1881. It was printed for the Harvard Museum of the Comparative Zoology in 1906. Scale [1:126,720]. Covers ?les Gambier, French Polynesia.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 shoreline features such as drainage, ground cover, human settlements, shoreline features, islands and islets, shoals, breakers, bays, harbors, inlets, points, rocks, beacons, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths show by soundings.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  14. Title: Lake George and vicinity, New York, ca. 1876 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Lake George & vicinity : from recent and careful surveys, by F.W. Beers. It was published by J.B. Beers & Co., ca. 1876. Scale [1:79,200]. 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, railroads, drainage, post offices, hotels, township boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. 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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  15. Title: Island Pond, Brighton, Vermont, 1878 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Island Pond, Town of Brighton. It was published in 1878 by F.W. Beers. Scale [1:2,400]. Covers Island Pond, Brighton, Vermont. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Vermont State Plane Coordinate System (Meters) (FIPS 4400). 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 is a partial cadastral map showing features such as drainage, streets, railroads, cemeteries, parks, churches, schools, mills, property lot numbers, names of landowners, selected building footprints, and more. 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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  16. 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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  17. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn., 1897. Plate no. 55, Water mains

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:24,000]. 2,000 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows existing and proposed water mains, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: "Plate Number 55. Water Mains." 72 x 47 centimeters 1:24,000 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  18. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn., 1895. Plate 22 b, Water mains

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:24,000]. 2,000 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows existing and proposed water mains, street car lines and railroads, and parks. "Plate 22 b.--Water Mains." 72 x 47 centimeters Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  19. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn. Plate 56, Water mains

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:24,000. 2000 ft. to one in. Shows water mains. On verso: Plate 56. -- Water Mains. Relief shown by contours. 81 x 48 centimeters Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  20. Title: Map of Minneapolis, Hennepin Co., Minn., 1897. Plate no. 34, Sewer map

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:24,000]. 2,000 ft. to 1 in. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows sewers and sewer tunnels, street car lines and railroads, and parks. On verso: "Plate Number 34. Sewer Map." 72 x 47 centimeters 1:24,000 Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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