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  1. Title: Caucasus, 1854 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Karte der Kaukasus-Lander und der angranzenden Turkischen und Persischen Provinzen Armenien, Kurdistan, und Azerbeidjan, bearbeitet und gezeichnet von H. Kiepert. It was published by Bei Dietrich Reimer in 1854. Scale 1:1,500,000. Covers the Caucasus. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a modified 'Europe Lambert Conformal Conic' projection with a central meridian of 44 degrees East 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, churches, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Islamic Heritage Project. Maps selected for the project represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes. The Islamic Heritage Project consists of over 100,000 digitized pages from Harvard's collections of Islamic manuscripts and published materials. Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

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  2. Title: Karte der Sprachverteilung, Bevólkerungsdichte und Bodenschätze von Elsass-Lothringen : auf Grund von Heinrich Kieperts Spezialkarte

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    Summary: Shows language distribution as of the 1910 census, population density as of 1905 and mineral wealth, including iron ore, coal, potash and petroleum.; Relief shown by spot heights.; Date taken from "Fo?rderung der Bodenschätze" table. 101 x 85 centimeters Scale 1:250,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Athens, Greece, 1878 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Athen mit Umgebung, aufgenommen und gezeichnet von J.A. Kaupert 1875; herausgegeben vom Kaiserl. deutschen archaologischen Institute; (mit Nachtragen bis 1877). It was published by Dietrich Reimer in 1878. Scale 1:125,000. Covers the Athens, Greece region.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Greek Geodetic Reference System (also called the Greek Grid). 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, selected buildings, historic sites and points of interest, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes indexes.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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  4. Title: Central America & Caribbean Region, 1858 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of tropical-America, north of the Equator : comprising the West-Indies, Central-America, Mexico, New Cranada [sic] and Venezuela by H. Kiepert. It was published by Dietrich Reimer in 1858. Scale [ca. 1:3,600,000].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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, roads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries and colonial claims, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes also text and inset map: Central part of the Mexican Republic on an enlarged scale, based upon the surveys published by A. v. Humboldt, v. Gerolt, Heller, Smith and the Sociedad Mejicana de Geografia y Estadistica. Scale 1:1,000,000.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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  5. Title: Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1910 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-plan Frankfurt A/M, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag in 1910. Scale 1:10,200. Covers Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) Gauss Kruger Zone 3, Rauenberg Datum' 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, street car lines, railroads and stations, drainage, canals, built-up areas and selected buildings, ground cover, parks, 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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  6. Title: Nuremberg, Germany, 1902 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-Plan Nurnberg, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag ca. [1902]. Scale 1:8,400. Covers Nuremberg, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 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 and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings pictorially, parks, 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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  7. Title: Dresden, Germany, ca. 1910 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-Plan Dresden, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag, ca. 1910. Scale 1:11,700. Map in Germany. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 5 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 and stations, drainage, selected buildings, ground cover, parks, and more. Includes inset: Fortsetzung siehe Hauptkarte. 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: Peking

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    Summary: "5/270." Place names in English and romanized Chinese. Legend in English, German, and French. Notes, indexes, directories, title panel, specimen map, bar-code, and blank area on verso. "Cartographia 673008-05." On verso: 352736-02.

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  9. Title: Bangkok City Centre : 1:15,000

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    Summary: At head of cover title: Nelles maps. Legend in English, German, and French. Includes index, location map, and map "Bangkok, Krung Thep."

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  10. Title: Szöul, térkép = Seoul, Plan = Seoul, map = Seoul, carte

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    Summary: Panel title. Relief shown by spot heights. Shows: city district boundary, built-up areas, street names, principal buildings, roads, railways, parksbus routes, metro lines. Ancillary maps: Seoul City 1:10,000 -- Southeast Seoul 1:60,000 -- Surroundings of Seoul 1:500,000. Index, tourist information and blank area on verso.

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  11. Title: Berlin

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    Summary: Accompanied by: Verzeichnisteil zum Falkplan Berlin. Includes 8 ancillary maps of "Innenstadtkarte Berlin (west) 1:7500," "Berlin 1:200000," "Frohnau, Waidmannslust, Lübars, & Hermsdorf 1:31500," "U-Bahn & S-Bahn," "Biesdorf, Köpenick, Kaulsdorf, & Mahlsdorf 1:31500," "Ausstellungsgelände Internationales Congress Centrum 1:10500," "Adlershot, Altglienicke, Köpenick, & Grünau 1:31500" and "Friedrichshagen, Müggelheim, Rahnsdorf, & Schmöckwitz 1:43500."

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  12. Title: Falk Plan Warszawa

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    Summary: Cover title: City map, Warszawa. Warszawa, Warschau, Warsaw. "1/257/5/77." Includes inset of city center. Inset map [Stare Miasto]. Scale 1:18 000. Falk - Verlag.

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  13. Title: Rio de Janeiro

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. City street map with hyperboloid projection, resulting in a shifting scale, ranging from 1:20,000 in the city center to 1:40,000 in outlying areas. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Insets: Centro da cidade 1:12 500 -- Niterói 1:40 000.

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  14. Title: São Paulo

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    Summary: With attached street index and multilingual explanatory tex. Includes inset to continue the map.

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  15. Title: São Paulo

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    Summary: Cover title: Mapa da cidade de São Paulo. Includes an inset for map continuation. "Projeção hiperboloid com rêde kilométrica." "Código no. 1358." Copyright Martin Lorenz & Cia. Ltda.

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  16. Title: Pharus-map World's Fair St. Louis, 1904

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    Summary: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)--Maps.

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  17. Title: Pharus-Map Worlds Fair St. Louis, 1904

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    Summary: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)--Maps.

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  18. Title: Rothenburg on the Tauber

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    Summary: Pictorial map of Nuremberg in the German state of Bavaria. Street directory and advertisements on verso. Separately included is map of Rudolstadt. Pictorial map of Rothenburg ob der Tauber in the German state of Bavaria.

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  19. Title: Routenkarte zu Grieben's Thüringen

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    Summary: Map of the German state of Thuringia. Relief shown by hachures. Probably issued in: Kleiner Führer durch Thüringen ... Berlin : Albert Goldschmidt, 1897.

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  20. Title: Schwarzburg und Umgegend

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    Summary: Map of Schwarzburg in the German state of Thuringia. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Probably issued in: Kleiner Führer durch Thüringen ... Berlin : Albert Goldschmidt, 1897.

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