Troy & Greenfield Railroad, New York and New England, ca. 1855 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Troy & Greenfield Rail Road and its connections, [by] A.F. Edwards, chief engineer. It was published ca. 1855 by B.W. Thayer & Co.'s Lith. Scale not given. Covers Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of Maine and New York.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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 railroads completed, chartered and under construction, drainage, selected cities, towns, and villages, state and county boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England 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, scales, and purposes.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Edwards, A. F., B.W. Thayer & Co., and Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Railroads, Human settlements, Land use, Infrastructure (Economics), Bodies of water, Transportation, Administrative and political divisions, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, and transportation

Temporal Coverage:

1855

Date Issued:

2007-03

Spatial Coverage:

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and New England

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF