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  1. Title: Centennial International Exhibition Grounds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pictorial map of the International Exhibition Grounds, presented by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad. It was published by Van Ingen & Snyder & Gillett in 1876. Scale not given. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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 image pictorially shows the grounds of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876. It includes features such as roads, railroads, drainage, buildings with uses, and more. Includes inset engraving: Birds-eye Centennial International Exhibition from Sawyer's Observatory. Copyright 1875 by Theo. Leonhardt & Son and lists of United States Centennial Commissions officers. 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: Bicycle & driving map of Indianapolis

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

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  3. 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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  4. Title: Valletta, Malta, 1869 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Valetta and its harbours. It was published by Day & Son in 1869. Scale [ca. 1:8,606]. Covers Valletta, Malta. 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, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, shoreline features, wharves, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also index and panoramic view of the harbor.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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  5. Title: Sectional map St. Louis County, Minn : compiled from latest government surveys and other authentic sources.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:158,400] (W 93°07'--W 91°44'/N 48°39'--N 46°38'). Distributor from label on recto. One section on upper half of map is blank. 147 x 67 centimeters Scale [1:158,400] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  6. Title: Sectional map Itasca County, Minn : compiled from latest government surveys and other authentic sources

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:158,400]. 1 in. = 2.5 mi. (W 94°26'--W 93°02'/N 47°56'--N 47°01'). 66 x 70 centimeters Scale [1:158,400]. 1 inch = 2.5 mile Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  7. Title: Sectional map Koochiching County, Minn : compiled from latest government surveys and other authentic sources.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:158,400] (W 94°27'--W 93°03'/N 48°45'--N 47°49'). Five sections in center of map are blank. 71 x 74 centimeters Scale [1:158,400] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  8. Title: Map of the Winnibigoshish, Chippewa, Leech Lake, Cass Lake, and White Oak Indian Reservations

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:110,880 ; 1 3/4 miles to an in. (W 94°5'--W 93°0'/N 47°1'--N 46°5'). 69 x 89 centimeters 1:110,880 General Minnesota Maps

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  9. Title: Sectional map Cass and Crow Wing Counties, Minn : compiled from latest government surveys and other authentic sources.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:142,560]. Distributor from label on recto. 107 x 66 centimeters Scale [1:142,560] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  10. Title: Map of the central province of Ceylon : exhibiting the situation of coffee estates

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:170,000]. (E 80°11'01"--E 81°07'53"/N 7°40'50"--N 6°20'17"). Relief shown as hachures and heights. Shows: administrative boundaries, roads, coffee estates."June 1873." Inset:"View of coffee plantation." 85 x 122 centimeters Scale [1:170,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  11. Title: The Residency, Palaces, &c. of Lucknow, 1858

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1858 paper map entitled: The Residency, Palaces, &c. of Lucknow. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Title: A map of the German Empire divided into its circles to which is added the Kingdom of Prussia, 1760-1769 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the German Empire divided into its circles to which is added the Kingdom of Prussia : the whole laid down from the most accurate surveys and chiefly from the map of marschal de Schmettau, lately publish'd at Berlin by the Royal Academy of Sciences. It was published by: printed for T. Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard and I. Bowles & son at the Black Horse, Cornhill between 1760 and 1769. Scale ca. 1:1,250,000. Map in English. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) 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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  17. Title: Quebec, Canada, 1842 (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 Quebec, drawn and compiled from original plans, by A. Larue. It was published by W. Cowan & Son in 1842. Scale [ca 1: 9,400]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 19N NAD 1983 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, wharves, fortification, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index and view.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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  18. Title: Bristol, England, 1890 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Bristol, drawn, engraved by G.W. Bacon & Co. New and rev. ed. It was published by James Fawn & Son, ca. 1890. Scale 1:10,560. 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, railroads and stations, street railway lines, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, cemeteries, parks, 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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  19. Title: Liverpool, England, ca. 1920 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Philip's new plan of greater Liverpool. It was published by George Philip & Son, ca. 1920. Scale [ca. 1:14,900]. 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, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings and industries, canals, docks, wharves, parks, 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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  20. Title: Brighton, England, 1820 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Brighton and its environs : including all the recent improvements by J. Sleath, sc. It was published by W. Saunders & Son in 1820. Scale [ca. 1:9,467].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, ground cover, parks, 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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