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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: Scotland, ca. 1859 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Scotland. It was published by: William Blackwood & Sons ca. 1859. Scale [ca.1:633,600]. Map in English. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid (EPSG: 27700) 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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  5. Title: Nile River & Red Sea Region, ca. 1870 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and lower Nubia, by Keith Johnston. It was published by William Blackwood & Sons ; W. & K. Johnston, ca. 1870. Scale [ca. 1:2,854,868]. Covers the Nile River and Red Sea regions.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Egypt Red Belt projected 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 boundaries, shoreline features, roads, railroads, canals, wells, and more. Covers the Nile River and Red Sea regions.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: London, England, postal office plan, 1843 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Post office plan of London. It was published by Ja.s Wyld in 1843. Scale [ca. 1:16,830]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, omnibus routes, drainage, built-up areas, selected buildings, Borough and Parish boundaries, parks, cemeteries, docks, and more. Includes notes on demarcations and furlong chart for measuring hackney coach & cab fares. 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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  7. Title: India (Southern Sheet)

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 ; (E 67°45'00"--E 91°06'00"/N 35°40'00"--N 5°19'00"). Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: South-eastern provinces of India (Hindu-Chinese countries or Further India). Scale one half that of general map. Year from previous call number. 33 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: India (North Sheet)

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 ; (E 67°45'00"--E 91°06'00"/N 35°40'00"--N 5°19'00"). Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Inset: South-eastern provinces of India (Hindu-Chinese countries or Further India). Scale one half that of general map. Year from previous call number. 33 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:6,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  9. Title: Bicycle & driving map of Indianapolis

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:20,750. Fred Dessecker & Theo. Sandstrom.

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  10. Title: Map of the battle of the Antietam fought on the 16th and 17th September 1862 between the United States forces under the command of Maj. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and the Confederates under Genl. Robert E. Lee

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.

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  11. Title: An accurate map of Hindostan or India, from the best authorities

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:9,180,000 (E 64°--E 102°/N 36°--N 4°).Relief shown pictorially. Appears in the author's Carey's general atlas, improved and enlarged. 1817. Name burnished out below title, probably J.T. Scott, sculp. In top right margin: 53. 38 x 40 centimeters Scale approximately 1:9,180,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  12. Title: H. Gaze & Sons' revised map of central Europe, indicating the principal routes comprised in their system of continental travel tickets

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    Summary: In lower right: "John Bartholomew & Co. Edin."; Geographic area covered extends east from England to Austria and south from northern Germany to northern Italy. 38 x 46 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,300,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Plan of Portland 1858

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Bar scale in rods. Streets, wharves, and piers labeled. 31 x 43 centimeters Scale approximately 1:10,000 City Maps

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  14. Title: Ohman's standard new map of Iowa, the Hawkeye state, 1926

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    Summary: 1 map Scale [ca. 1:728,640] W 97°--W 90°/N 44°--N 40°

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  15. Title: C-25 Geologic Atlas of Nicollet County, Minnesota [Part A]

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    Summary: Plate 2, Bedrock Geology, Plate 3, Surficial Geology, Scale 1:100,000. This atlas is a work in progress. Plates 1 and 2 were completed in 2010 as part of the USGS Statemap program.; Surface and Subsurface geology of Nicollet County, Mn.; The Nicollet County Board of Commissioners; The U.S. Geological Survey Statemap program; The Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as Recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources

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  16. Title: C-10 Geologic Atlas of Stearns County, Minnesota [Parts A and C]

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    Summary: 7 pls. Scales 1:100,000 and 1:200,000. Pl. 1, data-base; pl. 2, bedrock geology; pl. 3, surficial geology; pl. 4, Quaternary stratigraphy; pl. 5, depth to bedrock and thickness of Cretaceous strata; pl. 6, bedrock topography; pl. 7, geologic resources. Part C is Text Supplement for C-10. Part B Published separately by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Division of Waters. Supplementary files include ESRI coverages and shapefiles.

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  17. Title: C-07 Geologic atlas of Ramsey County, Minnesota

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    Summary: 10 pls. Scale 1:48,000 and smaller. Pl. 1, data-base; pl. 2, bedrock geology; pl. 3, surficial geology; pl. 4, bedrock topography and Quaternary stratigraphy; pl. 5, depth to bedrock and confining units of the St. Peter Sandstone; pl. 6, surficial hydrogeology; pl. 7, bedrock hydrogeology; pl. 8, sensitivity of the water-table system to pollution; pl. 9, sensitivity of the Prairie du Chien-Jordan aquifer to pollution; pl. 10, geology and well construction. Supplementary files include some ESRI GIS coverages pertaining to the geology plates.

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  18. Title: Karte vom Thüringer Wald : nach den neuesten und besten Hülfsquellen

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. "Terrainzeichnung u. Druck v. C.L. Keller, Berlin S." Historic Maps copy originally issued folded to 18 x 11 cm.

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  19. 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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  20. Title: C-35 Geologic Atlas of Meeker County, Minnesota [Part A]

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    Summary: Plate 1, Data Base, Plate 2, Bedrock Geology, Plate 3, Surficial Geology, Plate 4 Quaternary Stratigraphy, Plate 5 Sand Distribution Models, Bedrock Topography and Depth-to-Bedrock, Scale 1:100,000.; A County Geologic Atlas project is a study of a county's geology, and its mineral and ground-water resources. The information collected during the project is used to develop maps, data-base files, and reports. This same information is also produced as digital files for use with computers. The map information is formatted as geographic information system (GIS) files with associated data bases. The maps and reports are also reproduced as portable document files (PDFs) that can be opened on virtually any computer using the free Acrobat Reader from Adobe.com.; The Meeker County board of Commissioners and the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative - Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources

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