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  1. Title: London, England, 1877 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Illustrated map of London, or, Stranger's guide to the public buildings, theatres, music halls, & all places of interest. It was published by George H. Young in 1877. Scale [ca. 1:13,700]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, drainage, selected buildings, and more. Selected points of interest and relief shown pictorially. 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: Map of the Mississippi River from the falls of St. Anthony to the junction of the Illinois River

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: 1 in. to 1 mile. Title from title sheet. "N. Peters, photo-lithographer, Washington, D.C." Includes index sheet. Relief shown pictorially. 38 x 60 centimeters 1:63,360 General Minnesota Maps

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  3. Title: Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : originally prepared to accompany the reports of the explorations for a Pacific railroad route : made in accordance with the 10th. and 11th. sections of the Army Appropriation, Act of March 3rd. 1853

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. At head of title: Head Quarters Corps of Engineers. War Department. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "The territory of north western America ceded by Russia to the United States, 1868" (scale 1:9,000,000).

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  4. Title: Map of Nebraska and Dakota and portions of the states and territories bordering thereon; compiled by G. K. Warren.

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    Summary: March, 1867. 1 map: dissected and mounted on cloth; 108 x 80 cm

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  5. Title: Military map of Nebraska and Dakota

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    Summary: Issued with Warren's "Preliminary report of explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the years 1855-'56-'57," originally printed in the appendixes to the Report of the Secretary of War, in the President's message and documents, Dec., 1858. "35th Congress, 1st Session. Printed by order of the U.S. Senate." "Explorations & surveys, War Dept., Hon. John B. Floyd, Secy. of War." Relief shown by hachures and spot elevations. Map shows routes of 20 exploration or survey parties. 118 x 84 centimeters Scale 1:1,200,000 General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route; Compiled from authorized explorations and other reliable data by G. K. Warren ... under the direction of W. H. Emory in 1854 and of A. A. Humphreys 1854-5-6-7-8. Drawn by E. Freyhold. Engr. on stone by J. Bien.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes "Authorities." Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. 1 map: mounted on chartex; 105 x 115 cm, folded to 23 x 15 cm

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  7. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route : made in accordance with the 10th & 11th sections of the Army Appropriation Act of March 3rd 1853

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys.; Includes "Authorities."; "Note" states it is updated to May 1, 1857. 103 x 114 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys.Includes Authorities.Note states it is updated to May 1, 1857. 103 x 114 cm Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes "Note" and "Authorities." Historic Maps copy 1 on 2 sheets designed to be joined together; uncolored. Historic Maps copy 2 dissected in 16 pieces, mounted on cloth.

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  10. Title: Section of map compiled in P.R.R. Office with additions designed to illustrate Lt. Warrens report of military reconnaissances in the Dacota Country 1855

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows route of government explorations from 1820 to 1855. 39 x 49 centimeters Scale 1:3,000,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state."

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  12. Title: Buckelew Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of the Buckelew Plan..This plan is an autographed manuscript map, drawn on cloth, of San Francisco, California, showing streets and numbered lots, some with names of owners indicated. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  13. Title: Street Map, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 1993 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Town of Hopkinton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, Robert H. Bartlett, Highway Supervisor ; revised by Fay, Spofford, & Thorndike. It was published by Fay, Spofford, & Thorndike in 1993. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. 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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  14. Title: Geologic map of the Palos Verdes peninsula and vicinity, Redondo Beach, Torrance and San Pedro quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck with Perry L. Ehlig and Wendy Lou Bartlett. Relief shown by contours and spot heights; depths shown by isolines. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Martin L. Stout and Thomas L. Wright honorary map." Also shows oil wells. "First printing, May 1999". Includes 4 partial col. cross-sections, and location map. Five "complete" cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements and map dedication on verso. Bibliography on verso.

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  15. Title: Geologic map of the El Monte and Baldwin Park quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck; geologic cross sections researched and prepared by Wendy Lou Bartlett. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Ted L. Baer Honorary Map." "First printing, May 1999". Includes 3 col. cross-sections, and location map. Duplicate legend, 3 cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements, map dedication, table of well information, and age correlation chart on verso. Bibliography on verso.

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  16. Title: Geologic map of the Sleepy Valley and Ritter Ridge quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by Helmut E. Ehrenspeck. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; and the U.S. Geological Survey." "Perry L. Ehlig Honorary Map." "First printing, May 1997". Includes 2 col. cross-sections, and location map. On verso: "Geologic cross-sections for the Sleepy Valley and Ritter Ridge quadrangles, Los Angeles County, California, by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; prepared and edited by Wendy L. Bartlett; prepared in cooperation with the California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology; U.S. Forest Service, Angeles National Forest; and the U.S. Geological Survey." Complete legend, 4 cross sections, index to sources of geology, acknowledgements and map dedication on verso. Bibliography on verso.

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  17. Title: Bartlett's illustrated map of New York City,or, Stranger's guide showing the public buildings, places of amusement and its' various architectural features

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    Summary: Shows streets and landmarks in Manhattan south of 61st Street. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by G.H. Bartlett in the office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington." Originally issued in covers, 21 x 10 cm.

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  18. Title: Framingham, Massachusetts, 1832 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Framingham : from actual surveys taken by Jonas Clayes & Warren Nixon in the years 1830 and 1831, drawn by Warren Nixon. It was published by Pendleton's Lithography in 1832. Scale [19,800]. Covers also a portion of Ashland, Massachusetts. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries and more. Relief shown by shading.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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  19. Title: Connecticut, 1811 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Connecticut : from actual survey, made in 1811 by and under the direction of Moses Warren and George Gillet, and by them compiled. It was published in 1813 by Hudson & Goodwin. Scale [1:160,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 0600). 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, drainage, county and town boundaries, public buildings, mills, factories, mines, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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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  20. Title: General map showing the countries explored & surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Includes historic notes.

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