3,410 results returned
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Title: Outline map of Paris, France : showing principal places of interest
Contributors:- Image data
- 1900
Summary: In upper margin: If you go to the Paris Exposition you will find this map a great convenience. Includes advertisements for wood products manufactured by John W. Boughton. Includes calendars for 1900 and 1901. Map on side 2 has title: Map of London, England.
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Title: Mount Desert Island, Maine 1875 (Raster Image)
Contributors:- Raster data
- 2007
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
- United States Coast Survey.
- Donn, J. W. (John W.), 1835-1905.
Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mt. Desert Island, Maine, topography surveyed by J.W. Donn, assistant, between 1871-1874. It was published in Oct. 1875 by the United States Coast Survey. Scale 1:80,000. 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 roads, drainage, villages, selected buildings and structures, landforms, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes a table of heights of mountains and hills above mean high water and a table of summer level of lakes and ponds above mean high water. 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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Title: Sketch map of the Chobe River by Dr. Benjn. F. Bradshaw, 1880
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Terrain and ground cover along river banks shown by color, shading, and pictorially. Widths of river and heights of banks are shown. Villages, paths, stations, and ferries along river are shown. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 4, pp. 208-13; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: General map of South Africa by W. J. Turner showing the comparative distances from Cape Town with those of European cities from London
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Comparative linear distances from London to various European cities shown in red, and superimposed on Cape Town and African coasts. Northern limit of the temperate region is shown. Boundaries of British possessions, Portuguese territory, Matabele Kingdom, and Marutse-Mabunda Empire are shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 1, pp. 1-19; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the north end of Lake Nyassa surveyed by Mr. Jas. Stewart, C. E., Livingstonia Mission, 1880
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Expedition routes of Stewart, Elton, and Thomson are shown. "This map is a continuation and correction, on the same scale, of Mr. Stewart's former maps published in the 'Proceedings' May 1879 & July 1880." Includes note: "[peaks labeled] a, b, c, d, e, are peaks of the Livingstone Range surveyed by compass bearings from the west coast. The eastern coast-line has been sketched in approximately parallel to the line of peaks." From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 5, pp. 257-77; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Sketch map of explorations in the neighbourhood of St. Salvador (Congo) by the Rev. T. J. Comber, 1880
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Congo River's course according to Mr. [Henry Morton] Stanley is shown. River's previously supposed course according to Captn. [James Hingston] Tuckey superimposed in hairline. Expedition route shown in red. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 1, pp. 20-6; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the Central Zambesi region constructed from the route surveys & observations of Livingstone, Baines, Mohr, Pinto, Holub, and other travellers, combined with the sketches of Mr. F. C. Selous, by W. J. Turner
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Routes of Mr. Selous in 1874, 1877, and 1879 shown in red. Cataracts, marshes and salt plains are shown. Kingdoms and empires in region are labeled. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 3, pp. 169-75; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Discoveries along the south coast of Franz-Josef Land by Mr. B. Leigh Smith, 1880
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Route, direction, and dates of voyage are shown. Ice sheets and icebergs along route shown in blue. Depth shown by soundings. Relief shown by hachures. Conjectural coastlines shown by broken lines. Site of abandonment of Tegetthoff [Austrian vessel] in 1874 is shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 3, pp. 129-50; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of Sikkim and parts of the adjacent territories to illustrate sir R. Temple's paper
Contributors:- Image data
- 1881
Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Boundaries of Sikkim with Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Chumbi Valley, and Bengal Province are shown. Roads and mountain passes are shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 6, pp. 321-40; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Sketch map of the Jebel Shammar by W. S. Blunt Esq., 1879
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Relief shown by spot heights, hachures, and coloration. Areas of granitic rock and sandstone are shown. Extent of Nafud desert is shown. Includes information on quality and composition of terrain. Wadis and wells are shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 2, pp. 81-102; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Reduction of the map of British Guiana compiled from the surveys executed under Her Majesty's Commission from 1841 to 1844, and under the direction of the Royal Geographical Society from 1835 to 1839, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, K.R.E., Ph.D. revised and corrected to the present time by Cathcart Chalmers Esq., Crown Surveyor of the Colony, and James Gay Sawkins Esq., Director of the Geological Survey of the West Indies and British Guiana, with additions by Charles B. Brown, Esq., 1875
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Territory of British Guiana colored red. Includes note on boundaries of territory. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 8, pp. 465-89; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Estancia de San Jorge, Uruguay from a survey by Don Juan Frugoni, Durazno, 1867
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Shows tributaries of Rio Negro in vicinity of San Jorge. Vegetation along rivers and route from Montevideo to Tacuarembó are shown. Watersheds [drainage divides] between Rio Negro, Carpinteria, Chileno, and Yí Rivers are shown. Includes inset map of Uruguay [scale approximately 1:5,593,000]. Departmental boundaries are shown. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 11, pp. 663-89; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873 Includes inset map of Uruguay [scale ca. 1:5,593,000]. Departmental boundaries are shown.
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Title: Map of northern & central Arabia to illustrate Mr. Blunt's paper 'A visit to Jebel Shammar'
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Boundaries of Turkish [Ottoman] and Persian territories, and approximate locations of Bedouin territories, are shown. Mr. Blunt's route shown in red. Wells and reservoirs along route are shown. Pilgrim roads from Syria, Riyadh, and Jeddah to Mecca are shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Areas of red sand desert colored yellow. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 2, pp. 81-102; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the central portion of South Africa illustrating Dr. Holub's journeys 1873-9 constructed from his original drawings collated with the routes of other travellers and the most recent material by W. J. Turner
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Boundaries of British territory, Orange Free State, independent Bechuana [Tswana] kingdoms, Marutse-Mabunda Empire, and Matabele (Zulu) Kingdom are shown. Relief shown by hachures. Dr. Holub's routes shown in red. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 3, pp. 166-82; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the Barents & Kara Seas, illustrating the Arctic campaign of 1879
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Routes and dates of the Willem Barents and Isbjorn voyages are shown. Areas of sea ice are shown. Depth shown by soundings. Approximate line of 100 fathoms depth is shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 1, pp. 1-40; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Sketch map of the route of the R.G.S. East African expedition from Dar es Salaam to Lake Nyassa, 1879
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Route of expedition shown in red. Previous routes of Stanley, Burton, Speke, Cameron, Elton, and Von der Decken also shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 2, pp. 102-22; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: The Matyushin Shar (Matotschkin Schar), and part of the east coast of Novaya Zemlya
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Shows Matochkin Strait and voyage of the Isbjorn through strait in 1879. Route and dates of voyage are shown. Areas of sea ice, including dates of ice obstruction in strait, are shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depth shown by soundings. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 1, pp. 1-40; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the route of the R.G.S. East African expedition to Lakes Nyassa & Tanganyika constructed from Mr. Thomson's original map collated with the routes of other explorers by W. J. Turner
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Routes of expedition shown in red. Locations of camps along route are given. Previous routes of Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Speke, Cameron, Elton, Cotterill, and Stewart are shown. Includes elevation profile: Approximate section along Mr. Thomson's route between Nyassa and Tanganyika [vert. scale ca. 1:161,600]. Landmarks along section are shown. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 12, pp. 721-42; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Route survey of the western side of Lake Nyassa (northern portion) by Mr. Jas. Stewart, C.E., Livingstonia Mission, 1879
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Author's route shown in red. "This map is a continuation, on the same scale, of the map published in the 'Proceedings' May 1879." Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 7, pp. 428-31; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873
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Title: Map of the Pishin Valley and upper basin of the Lora constructed from the surveys & reconnaissances executed by officers attached to the forces serving in southern Afghanistan, 1879, collated with Major Wilson's map by W. J. Turner
Contributors:- Image data
- 1880
Summary: Roads, passes, and settlements are shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 4, pp. 212-46; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873