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Wabash River Historical Maps and Imagery

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Title
Wabash River Historical Maps and Imagery
Description
Some time in the late 1980s, Dr. Robert Miles, retired Purdue University Professor of Civil Engineering, found himself rifling through a Dumpster bin in Louisville, Kentucky. He was rescuing a set of historic atlases that had been unceremoniously thrown out and left for dead. Miles retrieved the unusually oversized monographs (~3x2') and donated them to the Purdue Libraries Map Collection. The collection is additionally curious in that the maps published in this set represent an early success in the developmental history of using aerial photography to generate topographic maps. More about the history behind these maps and their source can be found on the original materials page. In the summer of 2006, volunteers from the Wabash and Erie Canal Park scanned the first of 4 volumes (Wabash River, Terre Haute to Logansport) and asked if the Libraries could help provide public access to the resulting scans.
Subject
Map collections
Temporal Coverage
1929
Access Rights
Public
Format
ArcGIS StoryMap
Date Added
May 07, 2021

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  • Citation
    [Creator not found] (n.d.). Wabash River Historical Maps and Imagery. . https://mapsweb.lib.purdue.edu/wabashriver/ (website)
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