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  1. Title: L'Europe divisée selon l'etendue de ses principales parties, 1772 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Europe divisée selon l'etendue de ses principales parties : et dont les points principaux sont placez sur les observations de Mesrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences. It was published by: L.-C. Desnos, rue St. Jacques à l'Ensegne du Globe in 1772. Scale [ca. 1:7,250,000]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  2. Title: Africa, 1770 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: L'Afrique : ou tous les points principaux sont placez, sur les opservations de messieurs de l'Academie royale de siences [sic] par N. de Fer, geographe de Monseigneur le Dauphin. It was published by Desnos in 1770. Scale [ca. 1:12,250,000]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal 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, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations, plans, and descriptions of the inhabitants of Africa.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: France, 1763 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Projection geo-spherique ou Plan trigonographique de la France : contenant tous les lieux devenus celebres dans l'Astronomie par le grand nombre d'observations celestes qu'y ont ete faites depuis l'etablissement de l'Academie R. des Sciences et tous ceux dont la longitude et la latitude se concluent des operations geometriques, entreprises des le commencement de ce Siecle par ordre de Sa Majeste pour determiner la figure de la Terre, dressee pour l'utilite des geographes et des navigateurs par Mr. Rizzi Zannoni de l'Acad? Roy? de Sc? et Belles Lettres de Gottingue. It was published by Donnee au public et dirigee par Desnos, Rue S. Jacques, au Globe in 1763. Scale approximately 1:3,100,000. Map in French. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also ornamental cartouche decorated with coat of arms of France and surveying tools; Remarques; bar scales.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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  4. Title: Gibraltar, 1781 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan geometral de la ville et de la montagne de Gibraltar : nouvellement corrige d'apres les originaux anglais, par L. Denis, geographe et auteur du Conducteur Francais, 1781. It was published by ches Basset in [1781]. Scale [ca. 1:1,111]. Covers Gibraltar. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, UTM Zone 30N 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, ship routes of attack, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification and defenses, ship lines of fire, and other places of military interest for the Siege of Gibraltar, 1779-1783, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. 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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  5. Title: Carte du theatre de la guerre presente en Amerique

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Ferro and London. Relief shown pictorially. Includes inset of New Jersey to Massachusetts Bay; scale [ca. 1:1,580,000].

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  6. Title: Geological map of Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior.

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    Summary: 1 map: col.; 34 x 56 cm.

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  7. Title: Mineral Resources, France, 1784 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte mineralogique de France : ou sont marques les differens terreins principaux qui partagent ce Royaume, et les substances particulieres qu'il renferme, dressee sur les observations de Mr. Guettard de l'Accademie des Sciences, par Mr. Dupain-Triel, pere, Geog'he du Roy et de Monsieur Censeur Royal, 1781. It was published by Chez Mr. Dupain-Triel, pere, Geo.ghe du Roy et de Monsieur in 1781. Scale approximately 1:2,750,000. Map in French. 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 mines and mineral resource locations, geologic areas, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also note, 2 legends, coat of arms, and illustration of mining.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: Rhode Island, Geology, 1840 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A geological map of Rhode-Island, by Charles T. Jackson. It was published in 1840. Scale [1:190,080]. Covers Rhode Island and a portion of southeastern Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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 geological features, mines, mills, railroads, hotels, selected residences with names of property owners, drainage, town and county boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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 map purposes.

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  9. Title: Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: St. Lawrence Bay showing Lutke's Harbor, by the U.S. Ship Vincennes, Lieutenant John Rodgers ; produced by E.R. Knorr, draughtsman ; sketches by Wm. Brenton Boggs, purser U.S.N. ; engr. by Selmar Siebert ; reduced for engraving by Louis Waldecker. It was published by U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:200,000]. Covers Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia. 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 features such as drainage, human settlements, shoreline features, bays, harbors, inlets, points, shoals, anchorage points and bottom types, and more. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes note on Lutke's Harbor and 2 inset profile views. 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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  10. 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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  11. Title: Plan de la ville de Marseille : 1919

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    Summary: Originally 1 sheet. 75 x 116 centimeters Scale 1:5,000 City Maps

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  12. Title: Map or Plan of that Part of the Borough of the Bronx, City of New York, Lying Easterly of the Bronx River : compiled from surveys made under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the 23 & 24 wards, and the Board of Public Improvements, 1902

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    Summary: This is a scanned version of the 1902 paper map entitled: Map or Plan of that Part of the Borough of the Bronx, City of New York, Lying Easterly of the Bronx River : compiled from surveys made under the direction of the Commissioner of Street Improvements of the 23 & 24 wards, and the Board of Public Improvements. All 6 sheets of the map were scanned at 300 dots per inch and are in the TIFF format.

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  13. Title: Carte du nord de la Syrie

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes ancient and medieval names for some locations. "Dressée d'après les travaux de MMrs. E.G. Rey, Vignes, de Vogué, de Torcy et Renault, G. Marmier, Kiepert, Brzozowski, Mansell, Chesney, Favre et Mandrot, Ely Smith, Praeschel, Sachau, Germain."

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  14. Title: Carte de la Palestine et du Liban : comprenant en outre, les régions situées a l'Est de l'Anti-Liban, du Jourdain et de la Mer Morte

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Guides Joanne.

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  15. Title: Baltimore and its neighborhood: an excursion map; compiled for the Johns Hopkins University; based upon the triangulation of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published maps of local surveys; edited by Albert L. Webster; drawn by Louis Nell.

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings and isolines. "Contours in water one fathom apart." 1 map: col., mounted on cloth; 60 x 60 cm

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  16. Title: Environs de Jérusalem

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Above upper margin: Guides Joanne. Hachette & Cie. Paris.

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  17. Title: Carte de la Palestine et du Liban : comprenant en outre, les régions situées a l'Est de l'Anti-Liban, du Jourdain et de la Mer Morte

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.

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  18. Title: Chapman's sectional map of the surveyed part of Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:630,000. Cover title: Chapman's sectional map of Minnesota. Shows county boundaries as of 1867. Publisher's advertising on back cover. Hand colored. 82 x 72 centimeters 1:630,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  19. Title: Plan der Laendereien der Gloucester Landgut und Stadt Gesellschaft : einschliessend einem Plan von Egg Harbor City

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    Summary: Developer's plat of proposed city with numbered lots; relief shown pictorially. Insets: Birds eye view of Egg Harbor City, NJ. -- Wein- und Obstgarten-Plan an der Ludwigs Höhe -- [Location map showing Egg Harbor City on mid-Atlantic coast]. Text signed: Egg Harbor City, November 1866 ... Louis Bullinger, General-Agent.

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  20. Title: Rail road map of Wisconsin : 1862

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    Summary: Shows both completed and in progress railroads. Includes tables with populations of cities and counties. 82 X 76 centimeters Scale [1:633,600]. 1 inch = 10 miles General Map Collection

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