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  1. Title: The Indian Atlas

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:253,440]. Relief shown by hachures, shading and spot heights. Title derived from index map. Bottom right on each sheet:"Eng. by J. & C. Walker". Bottom left on each sheet states surveyors for that section of the work ; surveyors include J.A. Hodgson, J.D. Herbert, Bedford & Jones, C. Mackenzie. Includes index map"Index to the Indian Atlas" dated 1827. Index shows intention to produce 177 maps. 53 x 75 centimeters Scale [1:253,440] Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  2. Title: Geological map of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota : exhibiting, also, the extension of the Iowa coal-field into Missouri, and its relation to the Illinois coal-field

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    Summary: Engraved by W. Smith, Washn." Inset: "Geological map of the north shore of Lake Superior : on the scale of the original m.s. map. 110 x 66 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,230,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Provisional geological map of part of the Chippeway sand district of Wisconsin with part of Iowa & of Minnesota Terratory [sic]: to illustrate the report of a geological reconnoissance made in 1847; by David Dale Owen.

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    Summary: Shows area north and west of Wisconsin River watershed and south and east of the Saint Louis River and the upper Mississippi River. From: Senate ex. doc., 30th Cong., 1st session, no. 57. 1 map: hand col.; 83 x 61 cm e geological sections (14 sheets; 32 x 61 cm or smaller)

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  4. Title: Map showing the route of the West Australian exploring expedition through the centre of Australia, from Champion Bay on the west coast to the overland telegraph line between Adelaide and Port Darwin, commanded by John Forrest, F.R.G.S., 1874

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    Summary: Camps along route are numbered and dated. Latitudes of most camps are given. Relief shown by hachures. Includes information on terrain, soil quality, groundwater, and vegetation. Sites of hostile encounters with aborigines are shown. Route of Adelaide-Darwin telegraph line between 24° S and 29° S is shown. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 45 (1875), p. 249-99; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687

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  5. Title: Map shewing the overland tracks from Perth to Eucla & Adelaide

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Mr. Forrest's route and locations and dates of encampment are shown. Includes information on terrain, soil quality, groundwater, and vegetation. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 41 (1871), pp. 361-72; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687

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  6. Title: Handbook Map of Constantinople.

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    Summary: [A photostat from] Handbook for Travelers in Turkey in Asia. Rev. London, 1875. [positive photostat] 1 map; 39 x 44 cm.

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  7. Title: Cape Colony, Natal & c. (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of an historic regional map of Southern Africa from the 19th century originally published in John Bartholomew's XXth Century Citizen's Atlas (1902). This map includes inset plans of Cape Town, Johannesburg / Pretoria and Port Elizabeth. 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 was georeferenced by the Stanford University Geospatial Center using a Transverse Mercator projection. This map is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Africa held at Stanford University Libraries. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 277.235 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation. Bartholomew, J. G., and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Cape Colony, Natal & c. (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/tp917xf7051. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  8. Title: China - political

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    Summary: A scanned map object.

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  9. Title: Asia Minor, Syria & Mesopotamia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hypsometric tints, and spot heights. Depth shown by hyspometric tints. Map shows physical features, international boundaries and distances to major ports.,

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  10. Title: The advanced atlas of physical and political geography : a new series of maps specially designed for schools, colleges and private students

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    Summary: 96 pages; index. Historical Atlases

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  11. Title: The National Geographic Magazine map of Mexico

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights and gradient tints.; In lower margin: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute; John Bartholomew & Co.; Includes legend: Reference to contours of altitude. 42 x 62 centimeters Scale 1:5,000,000 General Map Collection

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  12. Title: The National Geographic Magazine map of China and its territories

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights.; Longitude East of Greenwich.; In lower right margin: John Bartholomew & Co.; In lower left margin: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute. 39 x 54 centimeters Scale 1:10,000,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: The National Geographic magazine map of the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea

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    Summary: In lower left margin: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute.; In lower right margin: John Bartholomew & Co.; Supplement to the January 1912, issue of the National Geographic magazine. 25 x 46 centimeters Scale [1:10,000,000] General Map Collection

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  14. Title: The National Geographic Magazine map of Mexico

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, and spot heights. In lower left margin: The Edinburgh Geographical Institute. In lower right margin: John Bartholomew & Co.

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  15. Title: The Indian Empire

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Map shows color coded: British India, territories permantently administrated by the Government of India, native states and territories, and railways. Map shows color coded: British India, territories permantently admnistrated by the Government of India, native states and territories, and railways.

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  16. Title: Political map of Africa

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Insets: [Cairo Region] -- Ascension -- St. Helena -- Strait of Gibraltar -- [Lower Nile] -- Sierra Leone -- [Cape Town Region] -- The British Isles on same scale as map of Africa -- [Gold Coast] 75 x 69 centimeters Scale 1:12,000,000 General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Bartholomew's "Half inch to mile" map of England & Wales

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours, gradient tints, and spot heights. "Copyright, John Bartholomew, F.R.G.S." "Reduced by permission from the new revised ordnance survey, with special local revision and correction to date of publication"--Bottom margin. "Roads revised by the Cyclists' Touring Club"--Bottom margin. "Sheet 32"--Top margin. Indicates first class, secondary and passable roads, footpaths & bridlepaths, hights in feet above sea level, railways and stations, canals, and county boundaries. Originally issued folded in covers 19 x 10 cm.

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  18. Title: Antarctic research : series of maps illustrating Dr. John Murray's address, 1893

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours and gradient tints. Depths shown by bathymetric tints, isolines and soundings. Supposed outline of Antarctica according to Murray is shown. Conjectural sections of coast shown by broken lines. "The Principal Explorers' Routes within South Polar Regions are marked in Red, thus showing what is ascertained, and what is hypothetical." Primary map includes inset maps of Victoria Land and of Graham Land, South Shetland Islands, and South Orkney Islands. Secondary maps show composition of benthic sediment, limits of pack and floating ice, temperature, rainfall, atmospheric pressure, winds, and magnetic phenomena. From: Geographical Journal. Vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 1894), pages 1-42; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6874

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  19. Title: Atlas of commercial geography illustrating the general facts of physical, economic and statistical geography, on which international commerce depends

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    Summary: vii, 1 unnumbered page : 27 maps ; 32 cm. Historical Atlases

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  20. Title: Dawson's map of the Dominion of Canada 1881

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    Summary: Shows railroads existing and under construction, canals, counties, and civil townships.; Covers eastern Canada and part of northeastern United States.; Includes inset maps: Continuation of map to the Pacific, showing British Columbia & Manitoba -- Manitoba & connecting territory -- Environs of Montreal -- Newfoundland.; In lower right: "J. Bartholomew, Edinburgh." 55 x 83 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,400,000 General Map Collection

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