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  1. Title: Map of the Thunder Bay and Lake Nipigon Regions

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    Summary: 1 map on 3 sheets; 109 x 100 cm.. Longitude west from Greenwich

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  2. Title: Rice & Bell's counting house map of the city of St. Paul.

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    Summary: 42 x 53 centimeters Scale 1:12,672. 5 in. to the mile Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  3. Title: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1825 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Edinburgh and its environs, from a survey by James Knox ; engd. by R. Scott. It was published by John Fairbairn 13, Waterloo Place, Manners & Miller, ... and John Anderson, Junr. in 1825. Scale [ca. 1:6,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' 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, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, selected names of property owners, parks, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes population statistics from 1821 and note.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: Cockburn Harbour

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. At head of title: West Indies, Caicos Bank. "2332." Historic Maps copy has label on verso: 2332, Cockburn Harbour.

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  5. Title: Sanilac County

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Sanilac County, Michigan, showing named telephone exchange boundaries, including "Gen'l Tel. Co." and "Continental Tel. Co." exchanges. Notes: Includes revision date history table and location map. Scale approximately 1:130,000

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  6. Title: Djibouti, Eritrea, & Eastern Africa, 1895 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta della colonia Eritrea coll'Abissinia : e regioni limitrofe tra il Nilo, Suakin e il Golfo d'Aden, costrutta e designata da Guido Cora ; lit[ografia] Salussolia. It was published by Fratelli Bocca in 1895. Scale 1:4,000,000. Covers Djibouti, Eritrea, and portions of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia. Map in Italian.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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, roads, railroads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes also inset: 'Parte dell'Italia centrale alla medesima scala.'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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  7. Title: Kurdufan Region, Sudan, 1880 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta originale della Spedizione Borghese-Matteucci : nel Kordofan e Dar For secondo i rilievi del sottotenente A.M. Massari e le Esplorazioni anteriori, costrutta e disegnata da Guido Cora. It was published by Istituto Geografico Guido Cora in 1881. This dataset is georeferenced for the map covering the Kurdufan region, Sudan. Scale 1:3,000,000. Map in Italian.The original map contains multiple maps on one sheet. Because the map images are non-contiguous and possibly at differing scales, each map image was georeferenced separately. Please see the 'cross references' section for other maps on this sheet.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Africa Lambert Conformal Conic' 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 exploration routes of Giovanni Borghese, Pellegrino Matteucci, and A.M. Massari (with dates of locations), drainage, cities, towns and villages, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. 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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  8. Title: Darfur Region, Sudan, 1880 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta originale della Spedizione Borghese-Matteucci : nel Kordofan e Dar For secondo i rilievi del sottotenente A.M. Massari e le Esplorazioni anteriori, costrutta e disegnata da Guido Cora. It was published by Istituto Geografico Guido Cora in 1881. This dataset is georeferenced for the map covering the Darfur region, Sudan. Scale 1:3,000,000. Map in Italian.The original map contains multiple maps on one sheet. Because the map images are non-contiguous and possibly at differing scales, each map image was georeferenced separately. Please see the 'cross references' section for other maps on this sheet.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Africa Lambert Conformal Conic' 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 exploration routes of Giovanni Borghese, Pellegrino Matteucci, and A.M. Massari (with dates of locations), drainage, cities, towns and villages, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. 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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  9. Title: Klein-Asien, Syrien &c.

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    Summary: Map of the eastern Ottoman Empire; relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Insets: Irak-Arabi (scale 1:3,700,000). -- Ebene v. Troja -- Mosul und Ninive -- Smyrna (Izmir) und Umgebung (scales 1:500,000). In upper margin: Stielers Hand-atlas, no. 59. Probably issued in: Stielers Hand-atlas ... 9., von Grund aus neubearb. und neugestochene Aufl. Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1906.

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  10. Title: Stanford's library map of London and its suburbs.

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    Summary: London (England)--Maps

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  11. Title: Seat of war in Canada.

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    Summary: Canada--Maps

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  12. Title: Lake George, New York, 1890 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Lake George, Rev. ed., by S. R. Stoddard. It was published by S. R. Stoddard in 1890. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 roads, railroads, drainage, township and county boundaries, radial distances from multiple points, selected public buildings, private residences with names of property owners, other points of interest, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes insets: Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga in 1873 -- [The Narrows Region] -- [Hulett's Landing Region] -- [Floating Battery/Mother Bunch islands] -- [Kattskill Bay] -- [Bolton] -- [Caldwell] -- [Glens Falls Region]. Includes historical notes. 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: Adirondack Mountains Region, New York, 1883 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Adirondack wilderness, compiled by S.R. Stoddard. 4th rev. ed. It was published by S.R. Stoddard in 1883. Scale [ca. 1:255,000]. Covers the Adirondack Mountains Region, New York, including portions of St. Lawrence, Franklin, Clinton, Lewis, Herkimer, Hamilton, Essex, Warren, and Saratoga Counties. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 natural features, drainage, railroads, important roads, ordinary roads, carries and trails, and township and county boundaries, and more. 'Distances are given in Figures on Roads and Trails. Air-Line Distances from Mount Marcy are indicated by Circles, 10 miles apart.' Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. 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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  14. Title: Montgomery, Alabama.

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    Summary: 1 map : color, 68 x 88 cm Corrected to Jan. 1, 1954. Includes streets, street index, population statistics, and ward boundaries.

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  15. Title: Map of Maryland Showing the Geological Formations and Agricultural Soils, 1907

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1907 paper map entitled: Map of Maryland Showing the Geological Formations and Agricultural Soils. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  16. Title: Map of the Adirondack wilderness

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    Summary: Shows natural features, railroads, important roads, ordinary roads, carries and trails. "Distances are given in Figures on Roads and Trails. Air-Line Distances from Mount Marcy are indicated by Circles, 10 miles apart." Airline distances from "A.C.A. Camp" at Bow & Arrow Point, North Hero, Vt. shown by circles 1 mile apart up to 10 miles.; Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Cover title: Map of the Adirondacks.; Prime meridians: Greenwich (top) and Washington (bottom). Latitudes not indicated.; Neat line on the north, west, and south is a circle whose diameter is approximately 120 mi. on the 74th meridian W of Greenwich (also nominally 3∞ E of Washington), center just west of Mount Marcy. 77 x 61 centimeters, in cloth-covered boards Scale [1:253,440] 1 inch to 4 miles General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Map of Hennepin County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Shows property owners outside of Minneapolis city limits. Blueprint.; Facsimile; location of original and date of reproduction unknown.; Engraved by Worley & Bracher; printed by F. Bourquin.; Includes directory. 76 x 79 centimeters or smaller Scale [1:38,900] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  18. Title: Plat book of Houston county, Minnesota : drawn from actual surveys and the county records

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    Summary: ""Eng[raved] by Worley & Bracher ... Phila."" 45 x 39 centimeters Scales differ. Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  19. Title: Map of the rail roads of New Jersey, and parts of adjoining states

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    Summary: Shows distances between stations. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1869 by J.A. Anderson ... "

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  20. Title: Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota and the northwestern part of Wisconsin

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    Summary: Hand colored."Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857, by J.S. Sewall, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of Minnesota."Includes view of Fuller House, St. Paul and advertisements for Caldwell, Whitney & Co., bankers, St. Paul and Henry Mckenty, realtor, St. Paul. 55 x 39 centimeters 1:760,320. Twelve miles to one inch General Minnesota Maps

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