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  1. Title: Geological Survey of Japan reconnaissance map, 1900

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1900 paper map set entitled: Geological Survey of Japan reconnaissance map. This map consists of five sheets, although sheets 2 and 5 are missing from this set, the online linkage file contains a polygon layer that serves an index for the other three sheets. To download the map sheets using this index in ArcMap, add the layer, open the layer properties dialog, select the display tab, and check the "support hyperlinks using field" box while selecting the URL field in the dropdown menu. Then use the hyperlinks tool to select the polygon representing the desired tile. These map sheets were scanned at 300 dots per inch and are in the TIFF format.

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  2. Title: Tetsu

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    Summary: Includes 7 insets, table of iron reserve, and 9 charts. 44 x 53 centimeters Scale 1:3,000,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Shobara

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    Summary: Includes text in Japanese. 60 x 37 centimeters, on sheet 46 x 73 centimeters Scale 1:75,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Map of Japan

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    Summary: Relief shown by gradient tints, shading, and spot heights. Depths shown by gradient tints, isolines, and soundings. Map shows prefecture boundaries, two classes of railroads, roads, main air routes, lighthouses, volcanoes, temples, tourist sites. Ancillary maps: Nanpō (southern) -- Nansei (southwest) Islands. Includes location map. "Approved by the Geographical Survey Institute of the Ministry of Construction, Japan (1962- No. 1193)".

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  5. Title: Tokyo City Proper XII

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    Summary: Includes Japanese text outside margin in upper left. Oriented with north towards the right. Inset: "Map of Ginza," index of principal spots. Town plan of Tokyo showing transportation, water features, parks, with some buildings represented pictorially. "Reprinted by BMP no. 1, GHQ, AFPAC, U.S. Army, August, 1945."

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  6. Title: Tokyo kara higaeri 1-2 - haka ryoko chokanzu. Tokyo Noriai Jidosha kabushiki kaisha Yuranka. Atorasusha. Showa 7 (1932) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: Full color pictorial tourist map, 55x79 folded into covers 19x11. One day trip from Tokyo, with inset, legend and notes. Shows the bus lines, roads, cities, places of interest,volcanoes, etc. On verso: Includes tourist information, indexes and photos of places of interest. Includes advertisements inside front cover.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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  7. Title: Beijing, China, 1920 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: [Pekin] = Peking. It was published by Japan Tourist Bureau in [1920]. Scale [ca. 1:25,000]. Covers Beijing, China. Map in English and Chinese.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 50N, meters, WGS 1984) 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 roads, railroads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, city walls, parks, places of interest, and more. Includes index and insets: Environs de Peking -- Legation Quarter and Japan Tourist Bureau. 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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  8. Title: Detailed map of Osaka, Kobe & vicinity : for sightseeing & business

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    Summary: Relief shown by gradient tints, contours, and spot heights. Cover title. Includes inset of Central Kobe and index.

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  9. Title: Central Osaka

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    Summary: Includes 3 insets and index. Relief shown by gradient tints, and form lines. Map shows prefecture, city, town and streets boundaries; roads; railways; schools; temples; shrines; and important buildings. Map of "Central Kobe" oriented with north towards upper right.

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  10. Title: Tokyo

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Shows major buildings and points of interest. Includes inset of metropolitan Tokyo at 1:100,000 with hotels index. Index on verso. Shows parks, routes, railways, various facilities and points of interest (by Japanese characters), waterways, block numbers.

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  11. Title: Kobe

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    Summary: Date from previously assigned call number.; Relief shown by hachures.; North oriented to the upper right.; Includes index, text, location map, and inset: Former settlement.; On verso: ill. and advertisements. 38 x 51 centimeters, folded to 19 x 10 centimeters Scale not given. City Maps

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  12. Title: Tōkyō shiku kaisei shukuzu zen; Tōkyō Fuchō.

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    Summary: Mounted cover title. Lithograph In Japanese. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north to the upper right. Includes 2 insets and legend. 4 sheets joined. 1 map: col.; 64 x 81 cm, folded in cover 21 x 14 cm

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  13. Title: Picture map of Tōkyō

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    Summary: Inset map: Yokohama. Includes index and notes of tourist interest. Some buildings are shown pictorially.

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  14. Title: Shinkoku Kōso-shō zenzu; Nihon Sanbō Honbu.;淸國江蘇省全圖; 日本参謀本部.; 03 Kōso-shō zenzu;03 江蘇省全圖

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. 04 Includes three insets: Nankin Kōneifujō no zu (scale 1:85,000); So-shūfujō no zu (scale 1:26,000); Shanhai ryakuzu (scale 1:50,000). 04 Includes three insets: 南京江寧府城之圖 (scale 1:85,000); 蘇州府城之圖 (scale 1:26,000); 上海略図 (scale 1:50,000). 1 map; 75 x 87 cm., folded in cover 23 x 17 cm.

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  15. Title: Ajia tōbu yochizu.

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    Summary: Cover title. Mounted in folding cover with cloth spine. Copper plate, hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Includes introductory text with charts and insets of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Peking, Shanghai, and Canton. Mercator projection. 1 map: col.; 90 x 135 cm. folded to 19 x 13 cm.

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  16. Title: Proposed Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes: Kenya, 1992

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    Summary: This polygon shapefile contains the locations of proposed large-scale irrigation schemes in Kenya. This data was used in Map 3.12 in Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being. Kenya, MInistry of Water Development and Japanese International Cooperation Agency. (1992). Proposed Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes: Kenya, 1992. World Resources Institute. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gh683jp8402 Data set is not for use in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, WRI, cannot assume liability for any damages, or misrepresentations, caused by any inaccuracies in the data, or as a result of the data to be used on a particular system. WRI makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does the fact of distribution constitute such a warranty.

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