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  1. Title: Washington, D.C., 1840 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of Washington, drawn by F.C. De Krafft, city surveyor ; eng'd by Mrs. W.I. Stone. It was published by Wm. M. Morrison in 1840. Scale [ca. 1:18,400]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System Meters NAD83 (Fipszone 1900). 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, block numbers, city wards, selected government buildings, and more. 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: Havana and Harbor, Cuba, 1889 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Harbor of Havana : from the most recent Spanish surveys to 1879, J.C.P. de Krafft Commo. U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation. It was published by Hydrographic Office in Jany. 1882. Scale [ca. 1:8,000].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 coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, railroads, drainage, ground cover, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, and more. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by shading and soundings. 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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  3. Title: Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean Region, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Behring's Sea and Arctic Ocean : from surveys of the U.S. North Pacific Surveying Expedition in 1855, Commander John Rodgers U.S.N. commanding and from Russian and English authorities, J.C.P. de Kraft, commodore U.S.N. Hydrographer to the Bureau of Navigation ; compiled by E.R. Knorr ; drawn by Louis Waldecker. Corr. & additions to Jan. 1882. It was published by U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:4,400,000]. Covers the Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean region. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'Mercator' projection with the central meridian at 180 degrees west. 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. Note: The central meridian of this map is not the same as the Prime Meridian and may wrap the International Date Line or overlap itself when displayed in GIS software. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, expedition routes, shoreline features, bays, harbors, islands, rocks, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes drawing of Wrangel Island 'as seen from Bark Nile of New London ... ; 15 to 18 miles distant'. 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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  4. Title: Williams and Bushnell's new map of Florida; compiled from the surveys of the U.S. Central Land Office, the U.S. coast surveys, private surveys, and other original sources by Arthur T. Williams and John W. Bushnell; drawn by F.C. Rotxoll.; New map of Florida

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    Summary: Hand colored. Inset: Map of the western portion of Florida. 1 map: hand col.; 147 x 109 cm., on sheet 155 x 115 cm.

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  5. Title: Map of the Dominion of Canada indicating main natural resources

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    Summary: Inset: Chart of Lakes Erie and Ontario on an enlarged scale. 21 x 37 centimeters Scale [ca. 1:15,000,000] General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Map of southern portion of dominion of Canada indicating vegetation and forest cover

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    Summary: Vegetation and forest cover shown by colors and numbers; also shows railroads. 49 x 88 centimeters Scale 1:6,366,000] 100 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Map of the Dominion of Canada : indicating natural resources, transportation and trade routes

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    Summary: Includes "Comparative diagrams" of Canada's natural resources.; Relief shown by spot heights. 52 x 88 centimeters Scale 1:6,336,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Nieuwe en nauwkeurige kaart van een gedeelte van Noord Amerika : behelzende Nieuw Engeland, New York, Pensylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, een stuk van Virginia, Kanada en Halifax, ter opheldering der reizen van den Heer P. Kalm

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Covers the area from Passamaquoddy Bay to Chesapeake Bay and west to Lake Erie. "Het oorspronglyke volgens acte van't Parlement den 7 Maart 1771." In upper margin: Uitgegeven te Utrecht by de Bockverkoopers J. v. Schoonhoven & Comp. en G. v. d. Brink, Jz. From: Reis door Noord Amerika. Te Utrecht : J. van Schoonhoven en comp. en G. van den Brink Janz. 1772.

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  9. Title: Carte générale de la principauté souveraine des isles de Malte et du Goze : dressée sur les mémoires des grands officiers de l'Ordre: dédiée et presentée à S.A.S. Mgr. le prince de Conti prince du sang, grand prieur de France

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and depth soundings. Oriented to the south-west Includes inset: "Vuë des isles de Malte et du Goze". "...avec privilege du roy".

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  10. Title: Das Konigreich Wurtemberg, das Grossherzogthum Baden. Nach C.F. Weilands Entwurf vollig umgearbeitet von H. Kiepert. Weimar, verlag des Geograph. Instituts 1856 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Württemberg Germany created in 1856. The original map appears in "Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas Der Erde Und Des Himmels nach den besten astronomischen Bestimmungen, neuesten Entdeckungen und kritischen Unterfuchungen entworfen. Geographisches Institut In Weimar." 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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  11. Title: Topographical map showing the locations of the Sutro Tunnel and the Comstock Lode, State of Nevada, United States of America

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. "March 1866." Includes two profiles: Longitudinal section of the Comstock Lode, and section of the Sutro Tunnel from its entrance to the Comstock Lode.

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  12. Title: General karte von dem Preussischen Staate

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    Summary: Includes table listing provinces and district governments with area and population.; Inset: Fu?rstenthum Neuchatel. 44 x 64 centimeters [1:1,300,000] General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Königreich Griechenland nach den neuesten und besten Hülfsmitteln

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.

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  14. Title: General-Charte von dem Königreiche Hanover, dem Grossherzogthume Oldenburg, dem Herzogthume Braunschweig, den Fürstenthümern Lippe-Detmold und -Schauenburg, nebst den Gebieten der freien Staedte Bremen, Hamburg und Lübeck

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    Summary: Map of the Kingdom of Hanover, now the German state of Lower Saxony. Relief shown by hachures.

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  15. Title: Carta chorographica de Portugal : Contendo a divisäo administrativa por concelhos e o estado da rede ferro viaria e das estradas ordinarias no fim do anno de 1901

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading.; Indexed.; "Exemplar no. 1591." 119 x 72 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  16. Title: Guinea-Bissau Airports, 2008

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    Summary: Guinea-Bissau Airports is a point theme representing airports and airfields in Guinea-Bissau. This layer is a component of the Global Map, a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

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  17. Title: Guinea-Bissau Roads, 2008

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    Summary: Guinea-Bissau Roads is a line theme representing roadways in Guinea-Bissau. This layer is a component of the Global Map, a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

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  18. Title: Guinea-Bissau Miscellaneous Hydrographic Features (points), 2008

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    Summary: Guinea-Bissau Miscellaneous Hydrographic Features (points) is a point theme representing dams, weirs, islands, springs and water-holes in Guinea-Bissau . This layer is a component of the Global Map, a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

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  19. Title: Guinea-Bissau Built-up Areas (polygons), 2008

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    Summary: Guinea-Bissau Built-up Areas (polygon) is a polygon theme representing built-up areas in Guinea-Bissau. This layer is a component of the Global Map, a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organizations worldwide.

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  20. Title: Guinea-Bissau Political Boundaries, 2008

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    Summary: Guinea-Bissau Political Boundaries is a line theme representing political boundaries in Guinea-Bissau. This layer is a component of the Global Map, a 1:1,000,000 scale framework dataset of the world. It consists of vector and raster layers of transport, administrative boundaries, drainage, elevation, vegetation, land use and land cover data. The data were prepared from information provided by national mapping and other organisations worldwide.

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