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  1. Title: Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey, made by James Lyne. It was reproduced by Henry Dunreath Tyler ca. 1890. Scale [ca. 1:3,200]. Covers lower Manhattan below Worth St. Facsimile of an original map made in 1728 appearing in various eds. of Valentine's Manual of New York. 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, drainage, selected public buildings (churches, markets, etc.), city wards, wharves, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index to points of interest. 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: United States of America by Bradford Scott 1816 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of the United States in 1816. The original map appears in "North America; United States of America By Bradford Scott. 1816; South America, By Bradford Scott. 1816." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  3. Title: Havana, Cuba, 1762 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the Havana and its environs : with several posts and attacks made by the British forces under the command of the Earl of Albemarle and Sr. Geo. Pocock which was taken 13 Aug. 1762, Ths. Kitchin sculpt. engraver to H.R.H. the Duke of York. It was published by J. Boydell engraver in Cheapside & R. Willcock bookseller in Cornhill, Novr. 1st 1762. Scale [ca. 1:24,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'NAD 1927 Cuba Norte' 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 associated with the British Siege of Havana, 1762, such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, lines of fire, troop placement, ship locations, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures; Depths are shown by soundings. Includes indexes for: References to the Moro -- Attack on the Moro -- References to the Town and Harbour -- Attack on the Town and Defences of that Side.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: Rhode Island, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations : from surveys, under the direction of Henry F. Walling, civil engineer. It was published in 1855 by L.H. Bradford & Co.'s Lith. Scale 1:63,360. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and county boundaries and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes insets: Woonsocket -- Pawtucket -- Warren -- Bristol -- Westerly Village -- Block Island -- Greenwich -- City of Newport -- City of Providence. Also includes tables of statistics and note. 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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  5. Title: The place of Paradise, the habitation of Adam and Seth, and the Land of Nod

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    Summary: Maps shows parts of Turkey, Iran, Armenia and the Caucasus; relief shown pictorially. From: Stackhouse, Thomas. A new history of the Holy Bible, London, 1752, Vol.I, p.24.

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  6. Title: Carte du nord est & du nord west du Pole

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From: Recueil de voyages au nord. Amsterdam : Chez J.F. Bernard, 1731-1738.

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  7. Title: Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Prime meridian: Washington. Shows county names in effect from 1840 to 1843. Inset: Northwest part of Michigan. At upper right: "25.". Scale approximately 1:1,650,000

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  8. Title: Le royaume de Siam, auec les royaumes qui luy sont tributaires, et les isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc., et les isles voisine : avec les observations des six Peres Jesuites envojez par le Roy en qualité de ses mathematiciens dans les Indes, et ä la Chine ou est aussi tracée la route qu'ils ont tenúe par le Destroit de la Sonde jusqu'ä Siam

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    Summary: Appears in:Atlas maior cum generales omnium totius orbis regnorum rerumpubl. atque insularum, tum particulares praecipuarum in iis Provinciarum, Ducatuum, Comitatuum ceterarumque minorum regionum ac divisionum tabulas geographicas continens / Collectus et ... dispositus ab Reinero Ottens. Amstelaedami : apud Viduam ac filios Ioachimi Ottens, 1719-1725. (7 v.).; Two sheets glued together, with "162" handwritten in upper left corner. sheets 58 x 69 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,500,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Asia : concinnata secundum observationes Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullas alias, et juxta annotationes recentissimas

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 Date from previously assigned call number on verso. Relief shown pictorially. 44 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  10. Title: South Carolina, (Charleston county), James Island quadrangle

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. Contour interval 5 feet. "R.B. Marshall, Chief Geographer, W.H. Herron, Geographer in charge; Topography by J.F. McCook and C.W. Stump, Jr.; Control by H.L. Hudson and E.L. McNair; surveyed in 1918." "Surveyed in cooperation with the War Department." Text and ill. on verso. 1 map: col.; 74 x 56 cm

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  11. Title: South Carolina, Charleston quadrangle

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. Contour interval 5 feet. "R.B. Marshall, Chief Geographer, W.H. Herron, Geographer in charge; Topography by C.B. Childs ... [et al.]; Surveyed in 1918." "Surveyed in cooperation with the War Department." Text and ill. on verso. 1 map: col.; 66 x 56 cm

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  12. Title: Administrative map of Yosemite National Park, California

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours and spot heights.; At head of title: Department of the Interior.; "Surveyed in 1893-94, 1896, 1898-99, and 1905."; Contour interval 100 feet. Datum is mean sea level.; U.S. township and section lines and section corners are shown.; Shows park limits established by various Acts of Congress. 70 x 73 centimeters Scale 1:125,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Iowa and Wisconsin, 1842

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    Summary: 1 map Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000] W 92°05′--W 86°45′/N 45°30′--N 40°20′

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  14. Title: Ohio; T.G. Bradford.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1838, by T.G. Bradford in the clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts." "S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith N.Y." Shows surveyed counties. From Bradford's "An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, And Historical, Of The United States And The Adjacent Countries." 1 map: col.; 34 x 27 cm.

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  15. Title: Michigan.

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    Summary: Longitude west from Washington. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1838, by T.G. Bradford in the clerks office of the District Court of Massachusetts." "Engraved by G.W. Boynton". Inset: Northwest part of Michigan. Shows railroad lines. Shows surveyed counties. Map is plate number 22 in T.G. Bradford's An Illustrated Atlas; Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and adjacent countries. 1 map: color, encapsulated in Mylar with barrier sheet; 35 x 27 cm

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  16. Title: China, Japan, &c.; China, Japan, etc.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: London and Washington. Appears in Bradford's A Comprehensive atlas geographical, historical & commercial. Boston: American Stationers' Company, 1835. "125".

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  17. Title: Iowa and Wisconsin, 1838

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    Summary: 1 map Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000] W 92°05′--W 86°45′/N 45°30′--N 40°20′

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  18. Title: Iowa and Wisconsin, 1838

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    Summary: 35 x 28 cm 1 color map Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000] W 92°05′--W 86°45′/N 45°30′--N 40°20′

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  19. Title: Austria and Slovenia, ca. 1730 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova et accurata Carinthiae Ducatus tabula geographica : in superiorem et inferiorem divisa, cum insertis partibus, Archiepiscopatui Salisburgensi propriis nec non dynastiis aliquot, quae tempore S. Henrici Imperiatoris circa A. 1007 Episcopatui Bambergensi Donationis titulo accesserunt. It was published by: Homann Erben ca. 1730. Scale ca. 1:352,000. Map in Latin. Map in multiple languages. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  20. Title: Eastern Europe, ca. 1716 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regni Poloniae Magnique Ducatus Lithuaniae nova et exacta tabula ad mentem Starovolcii descripta. It was published by: J.B. Homann ca. 1716. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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