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  1. Title: Plano de Yerba Buena, Alta California (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a site plan Plano de Yerba Buena, Alta California. For descr. see: Harlow, N. The Maps of San Francisco Bay ... 1850, no. 31.Pen-and-ink and watercolor on tracing paper.Oriented with north to right."No. 280, City of San Francisco, San Francisco, Exhibit no. 2 A.F., filed in office Aug. 20, 1853, Geo. Fisher." Shows drainage, settlements, etc. Relief shown pictorially. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. 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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  2. Title: Juvenile Delinquents, Washington, D.C., 1935 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Spot map showing residences of juvenile delinquents in the District of Columbia as of July 1, 1935. Data furnished by Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia. It was published in 1936. Scale [ca. 1:19,200]. Base map 'Complete to June 13, 1933.' The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System Meters NAD83 (Fipszone 1900). 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 location of juvenile delinquents' residences by race and sex. Shows also features such as block numbers and alley dwelling areas, roads, railroads and stations, drainage, selected public buildings and points of interest, parks, cemeteries, 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.

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  3. Title: MassGIS 2000 Massachusetts Senate Legislative Districts (1993)

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    Summary: The Massachusetts State Senate Legislative Districts (1993) datalayer reflects the State Senate district boundaries as defined by Chapter 274 of the Acts of 1993. The name of the statewide datalayer is SENATE93. Names of elected officials are up-to-date through March 1997.

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  4. Title: Deschutes National Forest, Oregon

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; "Willamette meridian."; Panel title: Map of Deschutes National Forest and directions to tourists and campers.; Includes text (11 panels) and table of distances on verso. 85 x 52 centimeters

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  5. Title: Monroe Lake Indiana

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    Summary: Text, illustrations, and vicinity map on verso. Imprint: Louisville, Ky.: The Corps., 197-?. Scale: Approximately 1:77,000; Dimensions: 39 x 45 cm Coordinates: W0863045 W0863036 N0390034 N0390024

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  6. Title: Salt Creek, Ind.: Monroe Reservoir : reservoir area

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    Summary: Includes "Recreation sites" table, "Vicinity map", and text on recto. Includes text, illustrations, "Section along centerline of outlet works" (scale approximately 1:1,440), "Plan view of dam area (scale approximately 1:8,600). "Revised 30 June 1965." "Monroe F/C 168-5" -- upper right corner. Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.?] : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, [1965] Scale: 1:80,000; Dimensions: 32 x 44 cm Coordinates: W0863242 W0861509 N0390928 N0390024

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  7. Title: White River : mouth to junction, East and West Forks : chart 1 to chart 6 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "Revisions made July 1931." "This survey was made by use of aerial photography, plane table stadia, chained transit traverse control and second order vertical control. Aerial photography was begun August 21st and completed October 12, 1930." Includes index map on charts 1 and 5. Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 93 x 97 cm or smaller

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  8. Title: East Fork White River : junction East and West Forks to Shoals, Ind. : chart 7 to chart 12 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "This survey was made by use of aerial photography, plane table stadia, chained transit traverse control and second order vertical control. Aerial photography was begun August 21st and completed October 12, 1930." Includes index map on charts 8, 10 and 12. Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 92 x 97 cm or smaller; Scale: 1:12,000

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  9. Title: East Fork White River : Shoals, Indiana to Sparksville, Indiana : chart 13 to chart 19 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "1929." "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "Aerial photography was begun June 28th and completed June 29, 1929." Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 92 x 97 cm or smaller

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  10. Title: East Fork White River : Sparksville to Columbus, Ind. : chart 20 to chart 29 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "1930-1931." "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "This survey was made by use of aerial photography, plane table stadia, chained transit traverse control and second order vertical control. Aerial photography was begun August 21st and completed October 12, 1930." Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 92 x 97 cm or smaller; Scale: 1:12,000

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  11. Title: West Fork White River : junction East and West Forks to Indianapolis, Ind. : chart 30 to chart 53 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "This survey was made by use of aerial photography, plane table stadia, chained transit traverse control and second order vertical control. Aerial photography was begun August 21st and completed October 12, 1930." Includes index map on charts 32, 42, 45, 46, 49, 52. Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 92 x 97 cm or smaller; Scale: 1:12,000

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  12. Title: Eel River : Worthington to Clay-Putnam Co. line Ind. : chart 1 to chart 9 inclusive

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    Summary: Surveyed and mapped under the direction of The United States Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. "War Department"--Upper left corner of each sheet. "This survey was made by use of aerial photography, plane table stadia, chained transit traverse control and second order vertical control. Aerial photography was begun August 21st and completed October 12, 1930." Includes index map on charts 2, 5 and 9. Imprint: [Louisville, Ky.] : [United States Engineer Office], [1931] Dimensions: 93 x 96 cm or smaller

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  13. Title: Wabash River and Valley from Terre Haute, Ind. to Logansport Ind: chart 14 to chart 38 inclusive

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes index map on chart 14. "The aerial photography was begun July 29, 1929 ..." "Aerial photogrpahy, horizontal and vertical control and mapping by Brock & Weymouth Inc., Philadelphia Pa. Soundings by U.S. Engineer Office, Louisville, Ky." Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Engineer Reproduction Plant, 1930. Dimensions: 63 x 101 cm, on sheets 72 x 107 cm

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  14. Title: Boston, Massachusetts, proposed tide mills, 1814 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of those parts of Boston and the towns in its vicinity : with the waters and flats adjacent which are immediately or remotely connected with the contemplated design of erecting perpetual tide-mills, published by Benjamin Dearborn, 1814. It was originally issued with Massachusetts House Document no. 18 of June 1814 -- petitions to incorporate Boston and Roxbury Mill Corp. Scale [1:15,840]. Covers portions of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. 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 map shows features such as selected roads (existing and proposed), propsosed tide mills and dams, drainage, canals, bridges, and more. 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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  15. Title: Greater Kano

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    Summary: Map is two sheets joined to form one map. Plan no. TPO.650. Copy two has field notes.

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  16. Title: Kano

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    Summary: Relief shown by rock drawings. Map includes "Reliability diagram" and "Index to adjoining sheets." Map shows administrative boundaries; roads and railroads; footpaths; compounds and buildings (some identified), walls, fences, and hedges around them; wells, springs and water tanks; bridges and culverts; town walls; orchards; quarries and pits; benchmarks with their corresponding elevations; outcrops; steep slopes and cliffs; marshes and bodies of water; and other features. Printed and published by Federal Surveys, Nigeria, 1959. 550/1015/11-59.

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  17. Title: St. Louis County, Minnesota official highway map of main state, county and township highway routes

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given. "Compliments of.."--top margin above neat line. 79 x 36 centimeters

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  18. Title: Population, Northern Rhodesia

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    Summary: Map shows population density, in individuals per square mile, and percentage of absentees among able-bodied males for each district. Areas of tsetse fly presence are also shown. Original map is filed in the Map and Geospatial Information Center. A map reproduction is attached to companion volume. Crown copyright reserved. Map is number 2.

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  19. Title: Population, Northern Rhodesia

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    Summary: Map shows population density, in individuals per square mile, and percentage of absentees among able-bodied males for each district. Areas of tsetse fly presence are also shown. Original map is filed in the Map and Geospatial Information Center. A map reproduction is attached to companion volume. Crown copyright reserved. Map is number 2.

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  20. Title: Industries, Northern Rhodesia

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    Summary: Map shows cities, motor roads, railways, and areas and primary products of mining, agricultural, and sawmill production. Original map is filed in the Map and Geospatial Information Center. A map reproduction is attached to companion volume.

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