Africa, Catholic Missions and Colonial Possessions, 1889 (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Tire de l'ouvrage les missions catholiques d'Afrique en 1889, par le Baron Leon Bethune. It was published by Societe de St. Augustin in 1889. Scale 1:20,000,000. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'World Sinusoidal' projection with the central meridian at 20 degrees east. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, colonial possessions, ecclesiastical districts, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University. Library. Open Collections Program, Bethune, Leon., and Societe St. Augustin.

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

Maps, Catholic Church, Missions, Colonies, Human settlements, Cities and towns, Landforms, Bodies of water, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, and society

Temporal Coverage:

1889

Date Issued:

2009-06

Spatial Coverage:

Africa

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF