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  1. Title: Washtenaw County by S. Pettibone.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich and Washington prime meridians. Shows transportation routes, land features, and cultural features such as jails, flouring mills, saw mills, woolen factories, paper mills and furnaces. Township and range lines shown. 1840 population figures given. Includes profile of the Central Rail Road. "Lithd. by P.S. Duval, Philadelphia, 1843." 1 map: mounted on cloth; 53 x 64 cm.

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  2. Title: General map showing the countries explored & surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich and Washington. Includes historic notes.

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  3. Title: Land caerte van 't Verenigde Nederland, met 't gene daer onderhoort, verdeelt in syn provincien, en minder verdelingen

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Title above neat line: Belgii pars septentrionalis communi nomine vulgo Hollandia nuncupata continens statum potentissimæ Batavorum Reipublicæ seu provincias VII. foederatas : cum omnium provinciarum insignibus, additis omnibus nominibus urbium et pagorum / edente Petro Schenkio. Includes text and 7 ill. of coat of arms. Insets: Batavorum coloniæ Occident. Indiis Septentrionalis Americæ implantatæ -- India Orientalis Batavorum commerciis potentià & coloniis celeberrima. Includes views of New Amsterdam and Batavia.

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  4. Title: Svmatræ et insularum locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium tabula noua

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorically. Oriented with north to the left. Based upon plates from Jan Jansson's Atlas novus, which Schenk and Valck acquired in 1694. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  5. Title: Regna Congo et Angola

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Based upon the plates from Johannes Janssonius's Atlas novus, which Schenk and Valck acquired in 1694. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers. Probably issued in: Atlas contractus, sive, Mapparum geographiacarum ... [Amsterdam : P. Schenk, 1700]

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  6. Title: United States, 1861 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Military map of the United States & territories : showing the location of the military posts, arsenals, Navy Yards, & ports of entry. It was published by P.S. Duval & Son in 1861. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North America Albers Equal Area Conic 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Shows free, border, and seceding states, and territories. Includes inset maps and lists of military posts and ports of entry in margins.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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  7. Title: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Field of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863, prepared [& drawn] by T. Ditterline. It was published by C. A. Alvord in 1863. Scale [ca. 1:25,500]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 3702) 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 troop and artillery positions, drainage, roads, railroads, and houses with names of residents, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Philadelphia, M.H. Traubel sct. It was published by A. McElroy in 1849. Scale [ca. 14,000]. Covers Philadelphia and a portion of Camden, New Jersey. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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 public buildings, wharves, 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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  9. Title: Battlefield of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Maryland and vicinity, ca. 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map: Map of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared by Wm. H. Willcox, Top. Off. & A.A.D.C. on Brig. Genl. Doubleday's staff from actual surveys ; J.G. Shoemaker, engr. 4th ed. It was published ca. 1862 by Lith. of P.S. Duval & Son. Scale [ca. 1:13,300]. Covers area in Washington County, Maryland including the Sharpsburg region and the Antietam National Battlefield. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System (in Meters) (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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads and streets, houses, fences, vegetation, drainage, and artillery and Union and Confederate troop positions, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset: [Map of the environs of Sharpsburg]. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  10. Title: Peat deposits of Minnesota, Bulletin 16, Plate 4

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    Summary: Map showing Peat Deposits of Itasca County Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 4 miles.

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  11. Title: Peat deposits of Minnesota, Bulletin 16, Plate 3

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    Summary: Peat Deposits of Koochiching County Minnesota, showing locations of drainage ditches, scale 1 inch = about 4 miles.

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  12. Title: Peat deposits of Minnesota, Bulletin 16, Plate 2

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    Summary: Peat Deposits of Beltrami County, Minnesota, showing location of soundings and depth of peat and topography of the surface of the bogs north of Red Lake, scale 1 inch = about 4 miles.

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  13. Title: Peat deposits of Minnesota, Bulletin 16, Plate 1

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    Summary: Peat Deposits of Northern Minnesota.

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  14. Title: Western, Central & Southern continental Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  15. Title: Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  16. Title: Germanic Confederation

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Companion atlas to Cornell's High School geography... / by S.S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton, 1866, c1856.

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  17. Title: South America : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by S.S. Cornell"--Lower left margin. From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856. On verso: part of Western division of the United States.

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  18. Title: Eastern division of the United States : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. On verso: Map showing the Southern division of the United States. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." Probably issued in: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  19. Title: British Isles : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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  20. Title: A part of Europe : designed to accompany Cornell's High school geography

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for reference to the departments of France and the counties of Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by S.S. Cornell in the ... District Court for the Southern District of New York." From: Cornell's Companion atlas to Cornell's High school geography / Sarah S. Cornell. New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.

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