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  1. Title: The Manchester ship canal

    • Not specified
    • 1898
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:35,000 February 1898--lower right. North oriented to the right of vertical. Includes note referencing Manchester Ship Canal Company signed W.H. Collier, Manager. Inset: Manchester docks. Ancillary maps: Distribution of population [along canal] -- canal Communications. Cross sections: Levels of tides ... -- Compartive cross sections [showing 4 canals] -- Plan of Eastham locks -- Warrington section of wharf -- Runcorn docks -- Section of the Haydock Colliery ... -- Planof Irlam locks -- Part section of Partington coal basin -- Section of quay, no. 8 dock on line G H.-- ... quay, dock no. 6, on line I J. -- ... of Manchester dock pier on line C. D. -- Three storied sheds ... -- Barton swing aqueduct -- ... Salford dock piers ... Henry Blacklock & Co. Colour Printers, Manchester--center lower margin. Signature of Chief Engineer in lower right: W. Henry H[...]. 1 map : color, dissected, mounted on cloth, and bound ; 34 x 150 cm, folded in cover 25 x 18 cm.

  2. Title: Map of Louisiana Purchase Exposition

    • Aerial views
    • 1904
    Contributors:

    Summary: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)--Maps.

  3. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 2

    • Not specified
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of east-central Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 10 miles.

  4. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 5

    • Not specified
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of the Granite Falls area, Minnesota, showing locations of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 1/4 mile.

  5. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 1

    • Not specified
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of northeastern Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 15 miles.

  6. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 3

    • Not specified
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: Map of the Minnesota-Ontario border region, showing location of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 20 miles.

  7. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 4

    • Not specified
    • 1961
    Contributors:

    Summary: Map of western part of the Lake Superior region, Minnesota, showing location of samples that were age-dated by radioactive isotope methods, scale 1 inch = about 40 miles.

  8. Title: New England and Eastern New York Railroads, 1849 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Railroad map of New England & eastern New York : compiled from the most authentic sources, by J.H. Goldthwait. It was published in 1849 by Redding & Co. and Clark, Austin, & Co. Scale [ca. 1:700,000]. Covers Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and portions of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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 railroads completed and in progress, drainage, state, county, and town boundaries, and more. Includes inset: Boston & vicinity showing the Grand Junction R.R. Scale [ca. 1:170,000]. 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 purposes.

  9. Title: Map of a farm survey made by the Class of 1894

    • Image data
    • 1894
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Area 76 acres." At head of title: College of New Jersey.

  10. Title: Map of the municipality of Colombo

    • Not specified
    • 1878
    Contributors:

    Summary: 93 x 59 centimeters

  11. Title: Goldthwaite's map of the United States & Canada : exhibiting the railroads with their distances, single and double track & width of gauge.

    • Not specified
    • 1861
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown using hachures.;1 map, colored;67 x 77 cm., fold in cover 28 x 23 cm.;ca. 1:7,315,200

  12. Title: Iowa City and its environs, 1854

    • Not specified
    • 1854
    Contributors:

    Summary: 1 map

  13. Title: Colton's map of the United States, the Canadas & c : showing the rail roads, canals & stage roads with distances from place to place

    • Not specified
    • 1854
    Contributors:

    Summary: Printed by D. McLellan.; Inset maps of New England and eastern New York; United States and Central America; the Isthmus of Panama showing the routes of travel between Chagres and Panama. 62 x 73 centimeters

  14. Title: A map of South America, Central America and the West Indies, on Mercator's projection, having special reference to the principal forest regions and the chief timber trees

    • Not specified
    • 1920
    Contributors:

    Summary: Mining recording divisions overprinted in red; shows roads and trails, railways, location of some mines and camps.; Verso: Sketch map of the southern portion of British Columbia indicating chief means of communication and agricultural and pastoral localities / Gotfred Jorgensen draughtsman ; The Colonist Lith., Victoria, B.C. -- Scale [1:3,484,800] ; 28.7 x 39.8 cm. ; (W 132∞ - W 114∞ / N 56∞ - N 48∞); Map of the Klondyke, Cassiar, Omineca and Cariboo gold fields shewing routes / compiled from the latest official reports for the British Columbia Board of Trade, Victoria, B.C. -- Scale [1:8,870,400] ; 25.3 x 18.8 cm. ; (W 144∞ - W 120∞ / N 70∞ - N 48∞). -- Inset: Key map shewing route to Klondyke via St. Michaels. -- 8.7 x 8.8 cm.; British Columbia progress illustrated graphically. -- 8 graphs.; From: The Year Book of British Columbia 1897. 68 x 91 centimeters

  15. Title: A Map of the world (on Mercator projection) having special reference to forest regions and the geographical disribution of timber trees

    • World maps
    • 1916
    Contributors:

    Summary: Includes text, two ancillary maps on Mollwiede's projection and cross section diagram showing vertical growth of mountains of the world. Contents: Annual isotherms and zones of tree-growth -- Annual rainfall -- Vertical distribution of tree growth on the principal mountains of the world. 66 x 92 centimeters

  16. Title: Climate-biome envelope model for the Western Great Lakes Region

    • Vector data ; Raster data
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: Research Highlights: We modeled climate-biome envelopes at high resolution in the Western Great Lakes Region for recent and future time-periods. The projected biome shifts, in conjunction with heterogeneous distribution of protected land, may create both great challenges for conservation of particular ecosystems and novel conservation opportunities. Background and Objectives: Climate change this century will affect the distribution and relative abundance of ecological communities against a mostly static background of protected land. We developed a climate-biome envelope model using a priori climate-vegetation relationships for the Western Great Lakes Region (Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan USA and adjacent Ontario, Canada) to predict potential biomes and ecotones—boreal forest, mixed forest, temperate forest, prairie–forest border, and prairie—for a recent climate normal period (1979–2013) and future conditions (2061–2080). Materials and Methods: We analyzed six scenarios, two representative concentration pathways (RCP)—4.5 and 8.5, and three global climate models to represent cool, average, and warm scenarios to predict climate-biome envelopes for 2061–2080. To assess implications of the changes for conservation, we analyzed the amount of land with climate suited for each of the biomes and ecotones both region-wide and within protected areas, under current and future conditions. Results: Recent biome boundaries were accurately represented by the climate-biome envelope model. The modeled future conditions show at least a 96% loss in areas suitable for the boreal and mixed forest from the region, but likely gains in areas suitable for temperate forest, prairie–forest border, and prairie. The analysis also showed that protected areas in the region will most likely lose most or all of the area, 18,692 km2, currently climatically suitable for boreal forest. This would represent an enormous conservation loss. However, conversely, the area climatically suitable for prairie and prairie–forest border within protected areas would increase up to 12.5 times the currently suitable 1775 km2. Conclusions: These results suggest that retaining boreal forest in potential refugia where it currently exists and facilitating transition of some forests to prairie, oak savanna, and temperate forest should both be conservation priorities in the northern part of the region. Data included here are the R code used to process the publicly available CHELSA data (see publications for citation) into the biome-climate envelope product (as .R files and .txt files) and the climate-biome envelope product itself (as .tif files).

  17. Title: Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina,1863 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper manuscript map: Battery Wagner, Morris Isld., Francis D. Lee, Capt. Engrs. ; Langdon Cheves, Asst. Engr. in charge of work ; drawn by F.W. Bornemann, C.S. Engr. Office. It was drawn Nov 26, 1863. Scale [1:480]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South Carolina State Plane Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 3900). 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 Fort dimensions and structures, landscape of area surrounding Fort, drainage, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  18. Title: Map of Indiana showing its history, points of interest, and the holdings of the Dept of Conservation

    • Pictorial maps
    • 1954
    Contributors:

    Summary: Pictorial map. Cited LC's Trails bibliography, no. 111. Imprint: [Indianapolis] : Indiana Dept. of Conservation, [1954] Dimensions: 86 x 61 cm; Scale: 1:600,000 Coordinates: W0880500 W0844700 N0414500 N0374600

  19. Title: Grand Traverse County

    • Not specified
    • 1953
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Shows public survey grid, water features, transportation and recreation facilities. Includes inset. Scale approximately 1:63,360

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