File:1853 Chicago map by Henry Hart.jpg

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English: City of Chicago : Cook Co., Illinois
Description
Henry Hart's City of Chicago, published in 1853, was the largest and most detailed map up to that time and shows the footprints of individual buildings. Formerly wall-map. Cadastral map showing names of landowners, names of streets, railroads, ward numbers and boundaries, and other points of interest.
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Source Harvard Map Collection
Creator
Hart, Henry, (civil engineer and architect); creator Potter, C.; Sarony & Co
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 Geotemporal data
Date depicted
Map location Chicago
Scale 1:5,000
Bounding box
N: 41.9338716°N
W: 87.6918897°W E: 87.6063958°W
S: 41.83454°N
Georeferencing View the georeferenced map in the Wikimaps Warper
 Bibliographic data
Publisher
surveyed and published by Henry Hart ; drawn by C. Potter.
Printed by
Sarony & Co
 Archival data
Dimensions height: 209 cm (82.2 in); width: 132 cm (51.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,209U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,132U174728
Notes Foliated title-cartouch; map in foliated border. Engraving: Cook County Court House. Includes list of references.
Other versions [1], [2]

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