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  1. Title: Zurich, Switzerland, 1845 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map (aerial view) entitled: Malerischer plan der Stadt Zurich und ihrer Umgebungen, herausgegeben von H.F. Lenthold in Zurich ; dessine par F. Schmid ; grave par Appert de Paris. It was published by Verlag von Arnold Bopp & Co. in 1922. Scale [ca. 1:4,800]. Covers Zurich, Switzerland, 1845. Map in German and French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Swiss Grid (CH1903 LV03) 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, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, ground cover, and more. Includes index. 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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  2. Title: Nova delineatio totius orbis terrarum auctore A. Colom = Werelt Caarte; niuwlijx uyt gegeven door Arnold Colom t'Amsterdam op het Water bij de Nieuwe-brugh inde Lichtende Colom.

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    Summary: 3 allegorical female figures at top of hemispheres and 3 at the bottom depict fire, day, air, earth, night, and water. 1 map: col., mounted on paper; 2 hemispheres each 31 cm. in diam., on sheet 56 x 64 cm.

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  3. Title: Coasts, West Scotland, United Kingdom, 1800 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The Lewis and west coast of Scotland : from the best authorities, by Stuart Amos Arnold, and other experienced navigators. It was published by D. & E. Steele, at the Navigation Warehouse, Little Tower Hill in Jany. 1st, 1800. Scale [1:275,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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, shoreline features (rocks, shoals, anchorage points, ports, inlets, etc.), and more. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially; depths shown by soundings. Includes index.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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  4. Title: Washington, D.C. and vicinity, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Topographical map of the original District of Columbia and environs showing the fortifications around the city of Washington, by E.G. Arnold C.E. It was published by G. Woolworth Colton in 1862. Scale [ca. 1:31,680]. Covers also adjacent portions of Virginia and Maryland. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System Meters NAD83 (Fipszone 1900). 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, bridges, canals, drainage, cities and towns, forts, selected public buildings and places of interest, hospitals, schools, Washington, D.C. school districts, selected private residences with names of landowners, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes text and population tables. 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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  5. Title: Pascaarte van Nieu Nederlandt

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    Summary: Relief shown by soundings. State 3 with date removed from title and page number 16 at lower right. Shows coast from Boston to North Carolina.

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  6. Title: Central Europe : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. flourished ca. 1871-1879. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  7. Title: Europe : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. flourished ca. 1871-1879. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  8. Title: South America : wall-atlas

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    Summary: "Card series." Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Charles Scribner & Co. ..." Inset: Profiles from west to east. Wall map. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. flourished ca. 1871-1879. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  9. Title: Africa : wall-atlas

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    Summary: "Card series." Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Charles Scribner & Co. ..." Insets: Profiles from north to south -- Profiles from east to west. Wall map. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. flourished ca. 1871-1879. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  10. Title: Asia : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains. Scribner, Armstrong, & Co. flourished ca. 1871-1879. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  11. Title: Hypsometric sketch of the United States

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    Summary: Scale not given Relief shown by hachures and gradient tints. "Printed for the Report on the vital statistics of the United States, Ninth Census 1870, by permission of Prof. B. Peirce." In upper left margin: Ninth census. In lower right margin: J. Bien, lith. the level curves of 400 and 800 feet of elevation constructed by A. Guyot. The level curves of 2000, 4000, and 8000 feet of elevation constructed by Chas A. Schott, asst., U.S. Coast Survey.

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  12. Title: The world : wall-atlas

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    Summary: "Card series. Mercator's projection." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Relief shown by hachures and form lines. Includes insets of western and eastern hemispheres, 3 comparison diagrams, and profile of "Comparative altitude of the plateaus and mountains of the world." Historic Maps copy 2 lacks hand coloring, not mounted on cloth.

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  13. Title: Europe : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains.

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  14. Title: The world : wall-atlas

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    Summary: "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Double hemispherical world map on a globular projection. Relief shown by hachures and form lines.

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  15. Title: Central Europe : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains. Copy 2 has a differently colored map key.

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  16. Title: Asia : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Card series." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Charles Scribner & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York." Includes inset profile of mountains.

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  17. Title: Africa : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Charles Scribner & Co. ..." Insets: Profiles from north to south -- Profiles from east to west. Wall map.

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  18. Title: South America : wall-atlas

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1865 by Charles Scribner & Co. ..." Inset: Profiles from west to east. "Card series." Wall map.

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  19. Title: New England in 1689

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and form lines. In lower margin: Engraved for Palfrey's History of New England. From: History of New England / by John Gorham Palfrey. Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1858-1890. Vol. 3.

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  20. Title: Map of South America

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    Summary: At head of title: Guyot's mural atlas, adapted to Guyot's courses of physical geography. Relief shown by contours and shading. Insets: Section from the coast of Guyana through the Andes of New Granada to the Pacific Ocean -- Section from the mouth of the Amazon through the Andes of Quito to the Pacific Ocean -- Section from Bahia on the coast of Brazil through the Andes of Bolivia to the coast of Peru. Wall map.

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