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  1. Title: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863, prepared [& drawn] by T. Ditterline. It was published by C. A. Alvord in 1863. Scale [ca. 1:25,500]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 3702) 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 troop and artillery positions, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with names of residents, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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.

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  2. Title: Map of Lenawee County; S. W. Higgins, topographer to Geol. Surv.; C. C. Douglass and Bela Hubbard, assistant geologists.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Shows locations of railroads, villages, post offices, saw mills, flour mills, roads and contains a description of some soils and surface features. "W. J. Stone sc. Washn. City." "S.W. Higgins Draft." "Bela Hubbard Del." 1 map: hand col.; 47 x 53 cm.

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  3. Title: Map of Washtenaw County; S. W. Higgins, topographer to Geol. Surv.; C. C. Douglass and Bela Hubbard, assistant geologists.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington and Greenwich. Shows locations of railroads, villages, post offices, saw mills, flour mills, roads and contains a description of some soils and surface features. "W. J. Stone sc. Washn. City." Includes a profile of the Central Railroad. 1 map: hand col.; 42 x 55 cm.

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  4. Title: Map of Korea

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and hachures. Inset: A map of Eastern Asia to illustrate the Russo-Japanese dispute.

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  5. Title: Plan de Paris

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    Summary: Relief not shown. Includes "Tableau des arrondissements et quartiers de Paris." Originally issued folded in cover with accompanying text.

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  6. Title: Nouvelle carte du Mexique : du Texas et d'une partie des états limitrophies ; dédiée ä l/Academie Impl. des Sciences de l'Institute de France

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Includes text on map face.; "Imp. Louis Antoine, r. des Noyers 70. Paris."; Outline color.; Insets: Détails des environs de Mexico et de la Vera Cruz.-- Complément de la carte : donnant le Yucatan et une partie des provinces unies de l'Amérique Centrale.; In lower right margin: "30D" in manuscript. 89 x 63 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,899,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Mappemonde élémentaire a l'usage des écoles primaires; dressée par A. Vuillemin.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Map shows mountains, rivers and major cities. 1 map; 59 x 117 cm.

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  8. Title: Nouveau plan illustré de la ville de Paris avec le système complet de ses fortifications et forts détachés et les nouvelles divisions en 20 arrondissements

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    Summary: In upper margin: Paris en 1860, indiquant tous les changements et projets. Includes indexes, illustrations of buildings, bridges and forts and distance table. Originally issued folded in covers, 22 x 14 cm.

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  9. Title: Paris nouveau, 1855

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    Summary: Shows: city wall, street names, principal buildings, woods, parks. From: Paris nouveau 1855. Paris : Furne éd., 1855.

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  10. Title: Planisphère illustré présentant la description géographique des parties connues de la terres, indiquant l'époque des grandes découvertes et le nom des navigateurs, les colonies des diverses nations : ainsi que le parcours des bateaux à vapeur, l'époque des départs, la durée du trajet, &ca.

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    Summary: Map of the world showing steampship routes, vignettes and notes on various places and features. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Insets: Costumes des différentes races qui peuplent la terre (2); Longueurs, sources et embouchures des principaux fleuves du monde; Tableau explicatif; Hauteur des principales montagnes du monde.

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  11. Title: Mapa de la Isla de Cuba : indicando la geografía física y política y tambien las grandes lineas de communicacion

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Includes Inset maps: Plano de La Habana -- Mapa indicando el curso de los buques de vapor -- Isla de Puertorico. Includes inset views: Habana, vista tomada desde casa blanca -- Montes ... (cross-section of mountains). "Ojeada sobre la Isla de Cuba" gives date of latest census as 1851.

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  12. Title: Paris, France, 1889 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Paris, dresse A. Vuillemin. It was published by Hachette & Cie. in [1889]. Scale 1:16,000. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N projected 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 roads, railroads and stations, street cars, drainage, selected buildings, fortifications, parks, cemeteries, and more. Includes index of Arrondissements and Quartiers.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  13. Title: Stratigraphic map of the region about Cornwall station

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Another copy of map in source publication. Companion text: Upper Siluric and Lower Devonic formations of the Skunnemunk Mountain region / C. A. Hartnagel. Geological Papers. Albany: New York State Museum. Bulletin 107, 1907. pp.39-54. 3pls.

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  14. Title: Western Sahara, Mauritania, & Senegal, 1861 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte du voyage execute dans le Sahara occidental, d'apres les instructions du colonel ... Faidherbe..., par le capitaine ... Vincent, dressee par Vuillemin ; gravee chez Erhard. It was published by Societe de Geographie in 1861. Scale [ca. 1:4,000,000]. Covers portions of Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, and Guinea. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic projected 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes notes.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.

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  15. Title: World Map Showing Routes of Exploration and Discovery, 1853 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Planisphere : elementaire et illustre indiquant la description geographique des parties connues de la terre, l'epoque des grandes decouvertes des navigateurs les colonies Europeennes, les principaux parcours des paquebots, l'epoque des departs, la duree du trajet, &c[a]., dresee par Vuillemin, geographie ; grave par Langevin. It was published by Fatout in 1853. Scale [ca. 1:50,000,000]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the the 'World Mercator' projection. 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Shows voyage routes of exploration and discovery. Relief shown pictorially and by spot heights. Includes historical notes, explanations, and ill. of sea vessels and scenes of exploration. Includes insets at lower margin: Costumes des differentes races qui peuplent la terre -- [Chart of Mt. heights in Europe] -- Hauteur des principales montagnes du monde -- [Chart of Mt. heights in Asia] -- Tableau faisant voir que le Planisphere n'est que le developpement figure du globe sur une surface plane -- Longueurs sources et embouchures des principaux fleuves du monde -- Costumes des differentes races qui peuplent la terre. 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.

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  16. Title: Soil map Delaware County sheet Indiana

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    Summary: Shows soil types classification by colors and symbols.; Field operations Bureau of Soils 1913.; A. Hoen & Co Lith Baltimore, Md. Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile.

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  17. Title: Soil map, Indiana, Hamilton County

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    Summary: Detached from: Soil survey of Hamilton County, Indiana / Lewis A. Hurst [and others]. In 37th Annual report of Deptartment of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:95,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils; State of Indiana, Department of Geology; soils surveyed by Lewis A. Hurst of the U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils; E.J. Grimes, R.S. Hesler, and H.G. Young of the Indiana Department of Geology.

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  18. Title: Soil map, Indiana, Tipton County sheet

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    Summary: Detached from: Soil survey of Tipton County, Indiana / Lewis A. Hurst and E.J. Grimes. In 37th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resouces, Indiana. Scale approximately 1:63,360 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils; State of Indiana, Department of Geology; soils surveyed by Lewis H. Hurst of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and E.J. Grimes of the Indiana Department of Geology.

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  19. Title: Soil map, Indiana, Hamilton County

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    Summary: A. Hoen & Co. Lith. Baltimore, Md.; Includes legend in margins. Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile.

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  20. Title: Soil map, Indiana, Tipton County Sheet

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    Summary: Shows soil types classification by colors and symbols.; Field Operations, Bureau of Soils, 1912.; A. Hoehn & Co. Lith. Baltimore, Md. Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile.

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