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  1. Title: Vienna, Austria, 1566 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan der befestigungen u. der hohenverhaltnisse der hauser wer stadt Wien im Jahre 1566 : mit zugrundelegung der plane von Bonifaz Wolmuet und Daniel Suttinger und mite benutzung gleichzeitiger handschriftlicher quellen, verfast von Albert Camesina Ritter von San Vittore ; Alb. R. v. Camesina fec. 1878. It was published by Gemeinderathe der Reichshaupt u. Residenzstadt in 1880. Scale [ca 1:1,800]. Map in German. Covers Vienna, Austria in 1566. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the MGI 3-Degree Gauss Kruger 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 with street address and colored to show building uses, landowner names, and more. Includes index. 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: Ritter's sundial map

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    Summary: Map is projected from the North Pole as if it were a sundial. Includes vignettes of native peoples, animals, ships and a mermaid. Title supplied by cataloger. Pictorial relief. Probably issued in: Speculum solis, oder, Sonnenspiegels erst vnd anderer Theil ... Zu finden in Nürnberg : bey Paulus Fürsten, Burgern vnd Kunsthändlern allda, [1645?]

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  3. Title: Map of land in the eighth ward of the city of Brooklyn belonging to the heirs of Leffert Bergen dec

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Manuscript property sale map of a portion of the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, showing streets and the property lines of parcels, built on land that had been a portion of Bergen family farmland inherited by Leffert Bergen (1789-1856). Coverage area extends from Upper Bay southeast to 3rd Avenue, and from 52nd Street south to 55th Street. Almost half of the map is devoted to seaside property below the high water mark. Shows "Pier Line as Report of Commissioners May 5th 1875" and "Bulkhead Line of April 17th 1857." Mounted on linen and intended to be rolled and tied. Notes: Oriented with north to the upper left. Scale determined from property dimensions given on map. Scale approximately 1:960

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  4. Title: Map of platted portion of the village of Hibbing

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    Summary: March 1st, 1925.; "W.J.F."; "HOR.CAB. 91."--Lower right margin.; Includes 1 inset map: Kitzville. 81 x 31 centimeters, on sheet 86 x 36 centimeters Scale approximately 1:7,600 City Maps

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  5. Title: Map of the French, English, and Spanish possessions in North America in 1745.

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; 20 x 22 cm North America--Maps

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  6. Title: United States, 1825

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    Summary: 1 map

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  7. Title: West Africa, 1799 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Charte des Reisewegs des Herrn Mungo Park : von Pisania am Gambia Fluss, bis Silla am Joliba oder Nieger, nebst seine Ruckreise auf der sudlichen Strasse nach Pisania, nach Her. Parks Beobachtungen, Bemerkungen u. Reisen entworfen von J. Rennell It was published by B.G. Hoffmann in 1799. Scale [ca. 1:5,000,000]. Covers a portion of West Africa. Map in German.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes.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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  8. Title: Westford, Massachusetts, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Westford Mass, surveyed for the town by Edwd. Symmes, 1853-5. It was published by J. H. Bufford's lith. ca. 1855. Scale [ca. 1:19,800]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and district boundaries, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset: Plan of Chilmsford [sic] 1725 and references and brief historical note. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  9. Title: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1833 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper manuscript map entitled: Plan of the village in old Cambridge, by Alex. Wadsworth, Boston, Jan. 1833. Scale [ca. 1:1,200]. Manuscript: Pen-and-ink and watercolor on paper. Covers areas surrounding Harvard Square and Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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 roads, properties, landowner names, and building footprints. Property owned by Harvard University is outlined in red. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  10. Title: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, 1831 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Mount Auburn, by Alexr. Wadsworth. It was published by Pendleton's Lithography in Nov. 1831. Scale [ca. 1:1,490]. This plan of Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts) shows proposed paths, avenues, numbered plots, and diminished size of the ponds. Relief is shown by shading. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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 layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  11. Title: South America, west coast, sheet XVIII : Ecuador, Ayangui Pt. to Verde Pt.

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    Summary: "Published according to Act of Parliament ... Sepr. 29th. 1847. Corrections to 1861." Covers the coast of northwestern Ecuador, chiefly in Esmeraldas and Manabí Provinces. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Insets: Cape Parado anchorage -- Manta Bay. "1814"--Lower right margin.

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  12. Title: Map of the Great Salt Lake and adjacent country in the territory of Utah : surveyed in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert

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    Summary: Scale 1:240,000 Relief shown by hachures. In: Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains / by Howard Stansbury. 1852. LC copy: Signed in ink script on verso: Millard Fillmore. Utah Salt Lake 1852. No. 134. LC copy: Mounted on cloth backing, sheet sectioned into 25 panels to enable folding. Includes text. by Capt. Howard Stansbury of the Corps of Topographical Engineers ; aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison and Albert Carrington ; drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss.

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  13. Title: Map of a reconnoissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri river and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert ...; by Capt. Howard Stansbury aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison ... and Albert Carrington; drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss.; Map of a reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri river and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, by Capt. Howard Stansbury aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison ... and Albert Carrington; drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Outline color. 1 map: hand col., dissected into 18 sections and mounted on linen; 71 x 174 cm, folded to 25 x 29 cm

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  14. Title: Map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows the region between the Red River and Lake Superior, featuring the Mississippi River above Lake Pipin, the Sioux Villages and the Falls of St. Anthony. Originally appeared in Henry Schoolcraft and James Allen's "Journal of an Expedition into the Indian Country to the Source of the Mississippi in 1832". 38 x 48 centimeters Scale approximately1:364,320; 5 3/4 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Nouvelle carte des parties, où l'on a cherche le passage de nord-ouest dans les années 1746 et 1747 : représentant la route des vaisseaux dans cette expédition

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. From: Voyage de la baye de Hudson : fait en 1746 & 1747, pour la découverte du passage de nord-ouest ... / traduit de l'anglois de M. Henri Ellis ... Paris : Ballard fils, 1749. In top margin: au frontispice.

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  16. Title: Seine

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    Summary: In upper margin : France par Adolphe Joanne. From: Atlas de la défense nationale : cartes des dix-sept départmenents envahis ou menacés par l'ennemi / atlas dressé sous la direction de Adolphe Joanne. Paris : Hachette, 1870. Date of publication from Vallée.

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  17. Title: Map of the region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. exhibiting the connection between the campaign and battle-field maps

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    Summary: Index map indicates the area covered by each sheet in the atlas.; Accompanies the Corps of Engineers' Military maps Illustrating the operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James . . .; Another copy is in the James A. Garfield papers, Manuscript Division, L.C., series 8, container no. 1.; LC copy mounted on cloth and sectioned in two. 108 x 66 centimeters Scale approximately 1:290,000 City Maps

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  18. Title: Map of the region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va : exhibiting the connection between the campaign and battle-field maps

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:380,000; 1 map: color; 88 x 52 cm Middle Atlantic States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps

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  19. Title: Map of the region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox Court House, Va. exhibiting the connection between the campaign and battle-field maps

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:290,000; 1 map: color; 108 x 66 cm. Gettysburg Region (Pa.)--Maps

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  20. Title: Fredericksburg [Dec. 1862]

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    Summary: Detailed map of the environs of Fredericksburg giving some troop positions, with Union entrenchments in blue and Confederate entrenchments in red, but otherwise uncolored. Also shows roads, "Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Rail Road," street plan of Fredericksburg and Falmouth, houses, fences, names of residents in rural areas, vegetation, drainage, and relief by hachures. 82 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:21,120 City Maps

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