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  1. Title: Cambridge, England, 1574 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Oppidvm Cantebrigiae, Ric. Lyne, sculpsit. It was published by in 1574. Scale [ca. 1:3,800]. Covers University of Cambridge and surroundings. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, ground cover, pictorial buildings, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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: Valletta, Malta, 1869 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Valetta and its harbours. It was published by Day & Son in 1869. Scale [ca. 1:8,606]. Covers Valletta, Malta. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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, fortification, shoreline features, wharves, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also index and panoramic view of the harbor.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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  3. Title: The Residency, Palaces, &c. of Lucknow, 1858

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1858 paper map entitled: The Residency, Palaces, &c. of Lucknow. The map was scanned at 300 dots per inch and is in the TIFF format.

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  4. Title: Easter Island, Chile, 1886 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Easter Island (Te Pito Te Henua Island), from a Chilean Government Survey in 1870 with additions and corrections in 1886 by Lieutenant F.M. Symonds and Naval Cadet C.M. McCormick, U.S.N. of the U.S.S. Mohican, Commander B.F. Day, U.S.N. Comdg. It was printed for the Harvard Museum of the Comparative Zoology in 1906. Scale [1:82,368]. Covers Easter Island, Chile.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 shoreline features such as drainage, roads, human settlements, shoreline features, bays, harbors, coves, points, rocks, bottom types, anchorage points, and more. Relief shown by hachures, shading, and spot heights. Depth shown by soundings.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  5. Title: Daniel's dream map

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    Summary: Allegorical map of Europe, Africa and Asia with four windheads. Relief shown pictorially. Title from: Shirley, p. 71. Also known as the Wittenberg world map. Used in editions of Luther's Wittenberg Bible. Map set in a page of text headed "Daniel, [p.] 113."

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  6. Title: Issola de' Rhodi

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Originally issued on the same sheet with a map of Mytilene. "The initials NB or NBF ... stand for N(atale) B(onifacio) F(ecit)."--Zacharakis, C.G. Catalogue of printed maps of Greece. From: Civitatum aliquot insigniorum, et locor[um], magis munitor[um] exacta delineatio ... Venetiis : Donati Bertelli formis, 1574. Date of publication from Zacharakis.

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  7. Title: Map of the central province of Ceylon : exhibiting the situation of coffee estates

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:170,000]. (E 80°11'01"--E 81°07'53"/N 7°40'50"--N 6°20'17"). Relief shown as hachures and heights. Shows: administrative boundaries, roads, coffee estates."June 1873." Inset:"View of coffee plantation." 85 x 122 centimeters Scale [1:170,000] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: La principaute de Dombes; J. van den Eynde sculpit.; La Principavte de Dombes

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. North oriented to the left. Includes French coat of arms and two figures on title cartouche, one holding a sword and the other a mirror, and a third face on the top of the title cartouche. From the Composite Atlas of France, title created to represent a unique collection within the Clark Library, University of Michigan. 1 map; 35 x 46 cm.

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  9. Title: Geologic map of the Arvin & Tejon Hills quadrangles

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle... Arvin, CA 1992. DMA 2245 III NE - Series V895; Tejon Hills, CA 1955. Photorevised 1968, photoinspected 1973. DMA 2254 III SE - Series V895" "First printing, November 2008." Includes location map, index to adjacent 7.5 &15 minute quadrangles and index to sources of geology (1952). Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 20 feet." "Kurt Neher honorary map." Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1976. 8

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  10. Title: Geologic map of the Wilcox Ridge quadrangle, Stanislaus County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Wilcox Ridge CA 1956, photorevised 1971, AMS 1758 IV SE, series V895." "First printing, August 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1975. Darrel S. Cowan honorary map. Includes "pertinent references", most recent published in 1974.

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  11. Title: Geologic map of the Partington Ridge quadrangle, Monterey County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. James "Jim" Vernon honorary map. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Partington Ridge, CA 1995. NIMA 1656 II NW -- Series V895." "First printing, October 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1991. Includes "pertinent references", most recent published in 1999.

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  12. Title: Geologic map of the Carmel Valley quadrangle, Monterey County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Carmel Valley, CA 1956, AMS 1656 I NW -- Series V895." "First printing, September 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology. Robert "Bob" Ballog honorary map. Includes "pertinent references", most recent published in 1999.

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  13. Title: Geologic map of the Solyo and Westley quadrangles, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Solyo, CA 1999. NIMA 1759 III SE, Series V895; Westley, CA 1991, DMA 1759 II SW -- Series V895." "First printing, August 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology. Includes "pertinent references."

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  14. Title: Geologic map of the Pebblestone Shut-in quadrangle, San Luis Obispo County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Pebblestone Shut-in CA 1959." "Contour interval 40 feet." "First printing, November 2007." "Cathy Busby honorary map." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1974. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1979.

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  15. Title: Geologic map of the San Ardo quadrangle, Monterey County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle San Ardo CA 1967. Photorevised 1984. DMA 1856 III SW - series V895." "First printing, February 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent field work 2003. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1979.

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  16. Title: Geologic map of the Patterson quadrangle, Stanislaus County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr.; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Patterson CA 1953, photorevised 1971, photoinspected 1978. DMA 1758 I NW, series V895." "First printing, August 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1974. Allen W. Britton honorary map. Includes "pertinent references", most recent published in 1970.

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  17. Title: Geologic map of the Santa Rita Peak quadrangle, Fresno and San Benito counties, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Santa Rita Peak CA 1969. Photorevised 1984. DMA 1856 I SE - series V895." "First printing, March 2007." "Edwin B. Eckel and W.B. Myers honorary map." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1969. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1971.

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  18. Title: Geologic map of the Lime Mountain quadrangle, San Luis Obispo County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Lime Mountain, CA 1948. Photorevised 1979. 35120-F8-TF-024." "Contour interval 20 feet." "First printing, February 2007." "Ian Campbell Memorial Map." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1989.

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  19. Title: Geologic map of the Gilroy Hot Springs quadrangle, Santa Clara County, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle Gilroy Hot Springs, CA, 1955. Photorevised 1971. Photoinspected 1978. DMA 1758 III SW - Series V895." "Jon Kuespert honorary map." "First printing, July 2007." Includes location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1972. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1999.

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  20. Title: Geologic map of the Mindego Hill quadrangle, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, California

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    Summary: by Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr. ; edited by John A. Minch. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 40 feet." "Robert Lindblom Honorary Map." "Topographic base map from available USGS 7.5-minute quadrangle. Mindego Hill, CA 1997. DMA 1558 I SW - series V895." "First printing, October 2007." Includes quadrangle location map, index to adjacent 7.5 minute quadrangles, and index to sources of geology, most recent 1974. Includes "pertinent references", most recent 1973.

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