Russia, 1900 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du Transsibérien: avec l'indication des directions proposées par différentes personnes pour le tracé de chemins de fer de la Sibérie et de la Russie orientale. It was published by Autolit. de Kelch ca. [1900?] Scale 1:12,600,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Asia North 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 railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also the Transsiberian Railroad and proposed connections to other rail lines in eastern Russia and the far East. 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.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Boundaries, Human settlements, Cities and towns, Villages, Landforms, Bodies of water, Land use, Infrastructure (Economics), Transportation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, and transportation

Temporal Coverage:

1900

Date Issued:

2013-04

Spatial Coverage:

Russia

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF