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  1. Title: New England, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: G. Woolworth Colton's railroad, township & distance map of New England : with adjacent portions of New York, Canada & New Brunswick, drawn, engraved & published by G. Woolworth Colton. It was published in 1862. Scale 1:900,000. 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 roads, railroads, drainage, state, county, and town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of distances and inset: The eastern portion of Massachusetts on an enlarged scale. Scale 1:350,000. 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.

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  2. Title: Section of G. Woolworth Colton's New guide map of the United States and Canada, with railroads, counties, etc. 1863 : used by General Grant in marking the proposed lines of operations of the armies of the United States, in 1864

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    Summary: Scale 1:3,168,000. Statute miles, 50 to one inch; maps: color; 42 x 69 cm Railroads--Southern States--Maps

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  3. Title: Section of G. Woolworth Colton's new guide map of the United States and Canada : with railroads, counties, etc., 1863, used by General Grant in marking the proposed lines of operations of the armies of the United States, in 1864

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, 1861-1865"--Top left margin. "Plate CXXXV - A"--Top right margin. The atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate armies, 1861-1865 was originally published to accompany the War Dept.'s War of the rebellion. "Counties and unimportant places appearing on the original map are here omitted." Overprinted in red and blue to indicate the movement of Union and Confederate armies.

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  4. Title: G. Woolworth Colton's railroad, township & distance map of New England : with adjacent portions of New York, Canada & New Brunswick

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    Summary: Includes railroad lines (e.g., in Massachusetts) constructed or incorporated in the 1870's.; "Entered ... in the year 1860, by G. Woolworth Colton."; Prime meridians: Greenwich (top), Washington (bottom).; Relief shown by hachures.; Map framed within 3-cm. ornate vine-and-leaf border.; Includes "Table of distances by shortest railroad route, from principal towns to New York, Hartford, Providence, Boston, Montpelier, Concord, and Augusta."; Inset: The eastern portion of Massachusetts on an enlarged scale. 90 x 63 centimeters Scale 1:900,000; 1 in to 14.2 miles. General Map Collection

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  5. Title: [The New Southwestmap of the United States of America]

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 20 x 32 cm G.W. Colton, son of Cartographer Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1873)

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  6. Title: Colton's Nebraska : map of the land grant of the Union Pacific Railroad in Nebraska

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    Summary: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875 by G.W. and C.B. Colton & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."

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  7. Title: Colton's railroad & township map of the state of New York : with parts of the adjoining states & Canada

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    Summary: Hand colored.; Relief shown by hachures.; Shows population statistics.; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852, by J.H. Colton, in the clerks office of the dist. court for the southern dist. of N. York."; Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. 56 x 64 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,000,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: G. Woolworth Colton's new guide map of the United States & Canada, with railroads, counties, etc

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    Summary: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861, by G. Woolworth Colton.; Insets: Plan of the southern portion of Florida. 16 x 13 cm.-Western portion of the United States. 18 x 20 cm.-The southern portion of Texas. 9 x 10 cm.; Includes tables of "Cities and towns with a population of 10,000 and over" and "Population of the United States."; "Drawer 47, portfolio 1, no. 28" written in the right margin.; General map annotated in red and blue to show military departments.; Description derived from published bibliography. 77 x 93 centimeters Scale 1:3,168,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Colton's Peru and Bolivia

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    Summary: Relief indicated by hachures.; Inset: City of Lima.; Greenwich or Washington meridian. 32 x 36 centimeters Scale approximately 1:8,250,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Northern regions.

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    Summary: No. XII in Colton, G.W. Atlas of the world. v.2. 1856. 1 map: colored; 36 x 28 cm.

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  11. Title: Colton's map of the world: on Mercator's projection.

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    Summary: No. VIII-IX in Colton, G.W. Atlas of the world. v.2. 1856. Shows routes of various explorers. 1 map: col.; 41 x 63 cm.

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  12. Title: The environs of London.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: London. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. ..." "Grid in miles from the General Post Office." "No. 4." 1 map; 29 x 36 cm.

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  13. Title: Africa: southern sheet.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. No. 36 in Colton, G.W. "Atlas of the world", v.2, 1856. 1 map: col.; 29 x 36 cm

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  14. Title: The environs of London.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: London. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. ..." "Grid in miles from the General Post Office." "No. 108." Text on verso: Palestine - Kingdom of Iran, or Persia, p. 109. 1 map: col.; 30 x 37 cm.

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  15. Title: Africa: north western sheet.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Liberia. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. No. 35 in Colton, G.W. "Atlas of the world", v.2., 1856. Shows northwestern Africa including Morocco, Algeria, Sahara, Senegal and Guinea. 1 map: col.; 37 x 30 cm

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  16. Title: Africa: north eastern sheet.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Delta of the Nile. Shows northeastern Africa from Tunisia to Somalia. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. No. 34 in Colton, G.W. "Atlas of the world", v.2 1856. 1 map: col.; 36 x 31 cm

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  17. Title: Russia

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    Summary: Relief indicated by hachures. In upper margin: No. 111. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. ..." Probably issued in: Colton's Octavo atlas of the world ... New York : G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1866, c1864. Text on verso mentions "the recent acquisitions of Prussia, chiefly in consequence of the war of 1866."

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  18. Title: New Jersey

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures In upper right-hand margin: No. 19. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co." From the author's Colton's atlas of the world. New York, 1855. (no. 19).

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  19. Title: Colton's Turkey in Asia and the Caucasian provinces of Russia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 ... " "No. 118." Probably issued in: Colton's general atlas ... New York : G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., 1866. Text on verso: Palestine -- The Holy Land. The firm of G. W. and C. G. Colton & Co. was established ca. 1865. cf. Tooley's dict. of mapmakers.

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  20. Title: Colton's Turkey in Europe

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Insets: The Bosphorus (scale [ca. 1:380,160]) -- Candia or Crete (scale [ca. 1:380,160]). "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 ... " "No. 115." Probably issued in: Colton's general atlas ... New York : G. W. and C. B. Colton & Co., 1866. The firm of G. W. and C. G. Colton & Co. was established ca. 1865. cf. Tooley's dict. of mapmakers.

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