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  1. Title: Bathurst, 1877

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    Summary: View over the city of Bathurst in 1877, detailing particular houses and landscapes. At bottom centre of map: Bathurst, 100 years a city, 1885-1985. Facsimile. Inset views at corners of central map: All Saints Cathedral -- New Public Buildings -- Town Hall -- St. Stanislaus College. 46 x 63 centimeters Scale not given. City Maps

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  2. Title: Shipwrecks (Great Lakes), Wisconsin 2014

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    Summary: [This dataset represents shipwrecks in the Great Lakes of Wisconsin as points in shapefile format. It is compiled from the shipwreck database maintained by the Wisconsin Historical Society. More information about the shipwreck database is available here (http://maritimetrails.org/about_shipwreck_database.php).]

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  3. Title: Los Angeles, California, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles, surveyed & drawn by E.O.C. Ord, Lt., U.S.A. & Wm. R. Hutton, asst., August 29th 1849. It was published by the Historical Society of Southern California ca. 1930. Scale [ca. 1:6,330] . Facsimile of a manuscript map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane Zone V Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 0405). 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, block and lot numbers, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. 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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  4. Title: Atlas and Plat Book of Adair County, Iowa, 1917

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    Summary: (Successful Farming Publishing Co., 1917, Atlas and Plat Book of Adair County, Iowa); 1 atlas: b&w.; 31 X 41 cm. Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. State Historical Society of Iowa (Iowa City)

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  5. Title: Standard Atlas of Adams County, Iowa, 1905

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    Summary: 1.l. 1 map; 45 cm Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. State Historical Society of Iowa (Iowa City)

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  6. Title: Standard atlas of Adair County, Iowa, 1901

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    Summary: 1 atlas: 91 p.; 44 cm. Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. State Historical Society of Iowa (Iowa City)

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  7. Title: Standard Atlas of Benton County, Iowa, 1901

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    Summary: (Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1901, Standard Atlas of Benton County, Iowa); 1 atlas: b&w.; 40 X 49 cm. Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. State Historical Society of Iowa (Iowa City)

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  8. Title: Map of the boundary between Massachusetts & New York: showing the ancient colonial and provincial grants and settlements; by Franklin Leonard Pope, member of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society.

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    Summary: Extends west to Schenectady and the Hudson River, covering Columbia County and most of Rensselaer County. Extend east to cover most of Berkshire County. Shows the Commissioners boundary, 1787. Relief shown by hachures. Publisher from front cover. Probably also published to accompany: The western boundary of Massachusetts: a study of Indian and colonial history / by Franklin Leonard Pope. Pittsfield, Mass.: Privately printed, 1886. 1 map; 37 x 28 cm., folded in cover 22 x 14 cm.

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  9. Title: Atlas of Benton County, Iowa, 1872

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    Summary: (Harrison & Warner, 1872, Atlas of Benton County, Iowa); 1 atlas; b&w.; 32 X 39 cm. Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use. State Historical Society of Iowa (Iowa City)

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  10. Title: National Register of Historic Places, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009

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    Summary: This polygon layer contains buildings, sites, structures, objects, and districts that have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of their importance to American history, culture, or archaeology. National Register designation means that changes to these places must be reviewed if federal or state funds, permits, or licenses are used.

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  11. Title: Massachusetts State Register of Historic Places

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    Summary: This datalayer is a point coverage for Massachusetts locations for properties listed on the Massachusetts State Register of Historic Places. This layer was derived from the Massachusetts Electronic Atlas database published by the Harvard Map Collection in 2001. For more information on this layer please read the 'Supplemental Information' section which follows. The Massachusetts Electronic Atlas (MEA) was a collaborative project to provides access, via the Internet, to data about the Commonwealth, its thirteen regional planning agency districts and 351 cities and towns. This dataset is now only available via The Harvard Geospatial Library.

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  12. Title: Map of the District of Columbia

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing typhoid fever statistics classified by race in each of 53 numbered districts. Also shows locations of hospitals. Notes: Oriented with north to the upper left (north arrow not shown). Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/3): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Includes index to hospitals. Scale approximately 1:24,600

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  13. Title: Map of the District of Columbia showing location of schools

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing public schools classified by race ("white schools" and "colored schools"). Notes: Relief shown by contours. Oriented with north to the upper left. Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/4): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. IV, Report on Board of Education. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. IV, Report on Board of Education. Includes notes. Scale approximately 1:22,500

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  14. Title: Map of the District of Columbia

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing death rates classified by race in each of 53 numbered districts. Also shows locations of hospitals. Notes: Oriented with north to the upper left (north arrow not shown). Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/3): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Includes index to hospitals. Scale approximately 1:24,600

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  15. Title: Map of the city of Washington showing location of fatal cases of consumption for the year ended June 30, 1901

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of central Washington, D.C, showing locations of deaths from tuberculosis ("consumption") classified by race ("white" and "colored"). Also shows block numbers. Notes: Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document (Serial Set 4302 H.doc.7): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1901. Includes directory of "Width of streets and avenues.". Scale approximately 1:13,670

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  16. Title: LiDAR-Derived Bare Earth DEM for Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), WI 2021

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    Summary: This data represents a LiDAR-derived bare earth Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), Wisconsin in 2021. This dataset contains a single file covering the geographic extent of the entire county.

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  17. Title: LiDAR-Derived Digital Surface Model (DSM) for Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), WI 2021

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    Summary: This data represents a LiDAR-derived digital surface model (DSM) for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), Wisconsin in 2021. A Digital Surface Model captures both the natural and built/artificial features of the environment.

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  18. Title: LiDAR-Derived Hydro-Enforced DEM for Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), WI 2021

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    Summary: This data represents a LiDAR-derived hydro-enforced Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), Wisconsin in 2021. This dataset contains a single file covering the geographic extent of the entire county.

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  19. Title: LiDAR-Derived Breaklines for Milwaukee County and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), WI 2021

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    Summary: This data represents LiDAR-derived breaklines for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) in 2021. Hydro breaklines maintain the definition of water-related features in an elevation model. They are used to capture linear discontinuities in the surface, lake shorelines, single-line drains for small rivers, and double-line drains for large rivers.

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  20. Title: LiDAR-Derived Buildings (3-D) for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD), WI 2021

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    Summary: This data represents buildings (3-D) for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) in 2021. [3-D Building Models representing every building in Milwaukee County, WI present in the 2020 lidar survey. Models are based a standardized feature extraction algorithm using esri software. There are roughly 3 levels of detail present in the dataset: Level of Detail (LOD) 1 (simple/prismatic buildings with flat roof detail), LOD 2 (includes roof structure details such as hip and gable roofforms), LOD 3 with several iconic buildings modeled to to mimic their real-world aesthetic (examples are: US Bank Building, Miller Park, and Milwaukee City Hall). Highlights of the model include the differentiation of building components including roof, facades, and ground plane. Data is made available as a single Multipatch feature class consisting of over 400,000 individual building models.]

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