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  1. Title: Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan, ground level (Raster Image)

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    Summary: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of the Leiken Enterprises's entry into the competition. 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. Sidney Leiken Enterprises and Theo G. Meyer and Sons. (2019). Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan, ground level (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xh797zx2465 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: Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of the Leiken Enterprises's entry into the competition. 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. Sidney Leiken Enterprises and Theo G. Meyer and Sons. (2019). Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Site Plan (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cg675ct4048 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: Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Shopping Center (Raster Image)

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    Summary: The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency held a design competition for the Golden Gateway Redevelopment site. This 51-acre area had been home to a large produce market, which was run by many Italian Americans who lived in the North Beach neighborhood. This plan is part of the Leiken Enterprises's entry into the competition. 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. Sidney Leiken Enterprises and Theo G. Meyer and Sons. (2019). Leiken Enterprises's Proposal for Golden Gateway, Shopping Center (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/zx087sb6046 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: Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Greenwich and Washington prime meridians. Scale approximately 1:2,100,000

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  5. Title: Spain/Portugal, 1828 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Spain and Portugal, by Sidney Hall. It was published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green in 1828. Scale ca. 1:2,350,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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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  6. Title: Lowell, Massachusetts, 1850 (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 Lowell, Massachusetts, from actual surveys by Sidney & Neff. It was published by S. Moody in 1850. Scale [ca. 1:3,450]. 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) 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, railroads, canals, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, parks, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations of local buildings in margins.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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  7. Title: Egypt (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of an historic regional map of Egypt originally engraved by Sidney Hall in the 19th century. 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 was scanned and georeferenced by the Stanford University Geospatial Center using a Transverse Mercator projection. This map is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Africa held at Stanford University Libraries. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 176.03 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation. Hall, Sydney and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Egypt 19th century (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qf446kc9931. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. 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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  8. Title: Burma Region, 1829 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Birmah, with part of Anam and Siam, by Sidney Hall. It was printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green in April 1st, 1829. Scale [ca. 1:3,300,000]. Covers Burma and portions of Bangladesh, India, China, Laos, and Thailand. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North Lambert Conformal Conic 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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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  9. Title: Venezuela, New Granada, Equador, Peru &c.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: LII. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  10. Title: United States

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    Summary: Numbered XLVIII. Shows states from Maine to Florida and west to Louisiana; shows boundaries, rivers and settlements. Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  11. Title: West Indies

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Numbered L. Inset maps: Jamaica -- Panama railway. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  12. Title: Netherlands, now divided into Holland and Belgium

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. Map showing main roads, principal towns and forests. Plate XIX from: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  13. Title: Holland / engraved by S. Hall, Bury Strt., Bloomsb’y.

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. Greenwich meridian. Numbered XVIII. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854. 1854

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  14. Title: Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay & Guyana

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Numbered LIV. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  15. Title: Chili, La Plata or the Argentine Republic & Bolivia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Numbered LIII. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  16. Title: South America

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    Summary: Numbered LI. Shows boundaries, rivers and settlements. Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  17. Title: Italy, north part

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Environs of Rome. Numbered XXXI. Shows boundaries, rivers, roads and settlements. Greenwich meridian. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  18. Title: Ireland

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    Summary: From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854. Relief shown by hachures. Numbered XII and XIII. Shows county names and boundaries, railways in operation and approved.

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  19. Title: Mexico, California & Texas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Shows provinces or states in Mexico, cities and towns for Southwestern United States, Mexico, Belize, and Guatamala, gold discoveries in California, and areas of Indian habitation. Includes key to gold discoveries. Probably from A. and C. Black's General atlas of the world. 1854.-cf. Phillips, List of Geographical Atlases, Vol. III-IV, #4334, pp. 192-194. Inset: Guatimala or Central America. Lower right margin: XLIX. "Engraved by S. Hall, Bury Strt. Bloomsby."

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  20. Title: Europe

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Numbered VI. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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