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  1. Title: Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, 1848 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Charlestown, by Felton & Parker [and] Ebenr. Barker. It was published by J.H. Bufford's Lithogy. in 1848. Scale [1:4,800]. Covers the populated place Charlestown (Boston, Massachusetts) and also parts of Somerville, Cambridge, Boston, and East Boston. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, wharves, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, city ward boundaries and more. It also includes an index to points of interest. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  2. Title: Kentucky

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:1,400,000; 1 map; 24 x 52 cm. Kentucky--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles

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  3. Title: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1853 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of Lawrence, Mass., surveyed & drawn by James K. Barker. It was published by S.W. Chandler & Co.'s Lith. in 1853. Scale [1:7,200]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes an index to points of interest. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  4. Title: Map of the United States' lead mines on the upper Mississippi River

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    Summary: 5084 and 5160;Covers southwestern Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois.;Duplicate copy (facsimile), detached from Wisconsin Historical Collections 11 (1888) between p. 400-401 [F902.981 v. 11], and shelved as map2FoG4122.S68H2 1829 C45 1888.; 4102.N61H2 1829 C45;MMC 6-2092 and 6-2095.;1 map, hand colored;38 x 45 cm.

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  5. Title: Map of the United States lead mines on the upper Mississippi River

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 38 x 45 cm, folded in cover 10 x 5 cm Cover title: Map of lead mines. Relief shown pictorially. Includes an area bounded by the Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Rock Rivers. In borders: text. Folder title: Lead mines. Colorado-Henkle Collection. IDeKN

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  6. Title: Maine, 1793 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled:The district of Main : from the latest surveys, by Osgood Carleton. It was published in 1793 by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, in Jedidiah Morse's The American universal geography. Vol. 1 (1793). p. 345. Scale [ca. 1:2,800,000]. Covers Maine and portions of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as cities and towns, drainage, county, state, and national boundaries and more. Relief is shown pictorially. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  7. Title: North America.

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    Summary: Henry Stevens and Roland Tree, Comparative cartography, exemplified in an analytical & bibliographical description of nearly one hundred maps and charts of the American continent published in Great Britain during the years 1600 to 1850, no. 62a.; Greenwich, Ferro.;Relief shown by hachures.;1 map, hand colored;51 x 61 cm.;ca. 1:9,000,000

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  8. Title: N. W. Territory.

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    Summary: No. 1-1011 in Checklist of printed maps of the middle west to 1900.;London and Philadelphia.;1 map;18 x 14 cm.;ca. 1:8,500,000

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  9. Title: The United States of America.

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    Summary: Philadelphia and London.;Relief shown pictorially.;1 map, hand colored;24 x 31 cm.;ca. 1:10,000,000

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