Maine, 1798 Raster Image

Description:

This layer is a digitized geo-referenced raster image of a 1798 map of Maine drawn by D.F. Sotzmann. These Sotzmann maps (10 maps of New England and Mid-Atlantic states) typically portray both natural and manmade features. They are highly detailed with symbols for churches, roads, court houses, distilleries, iron works, mills, academies, county lines, town lines, and more. Relief is usually indicated by hachures and country boundaries have also been drawn. Place names are shown in both German and English and each map usually includes an index to land grants. Prime meridians used for this series are Greenwich and Washington, D.C.

Creator:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Provider:

Harvard

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Raster data

Subject:

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Land Use, Human settlements, Bodies of water, Landforms, and Administrative and political divisions

Temporal Coverage:

1798

Date Issued:

2005-02

Spatial Coverage:

Maine and New England

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF