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London, England, ca. 1676 (Raster Image)

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Description

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Englands glory, or, the glory of England being a new mapp of the city of London : shewing the remarkable streets, lanes, alleyes, churches, halls courts, and other places as they are now rebuilt, the which will therefore be a guide to strangers, and such as are not well acquainted herein to direct them from place to place : diverse faults y[t] are in y[e] former are in this amended, allsoe the severall figures y[t] stand up and downe in the mapp are explained in y[e] 2 tables at y[e] upper corners hereof.

It was published by Robert Walton ca. 1676. Scale [ca. 1:60,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum).

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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, selected buildings pictorially, fortification, docks, parks, ground cover, and more. Includes also indexes.

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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Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
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concepts[modality].local:modality:imageenrichment · Harvard Dataversekeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (75%)
concepts[modality].local:modality:imagingenrichment · Harvard Dataversekeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (75%)
concepts[modality].local:modality:textenrichment · Harvard Dataversekeyword-concept-rules@1.0.0title+description (75%)
created_datesource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0
descriptionsource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0/description
publication_datesource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0
titlesource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0/name
updated_datesource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0
version_labelsource · Harvard Dataverseconnector:dataverse@1.0.0