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  1. Title: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1825 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of Edinburgh and its environs, from a survey by James Knox ; engd. by R. Scott. It was published by John Fairbairn 13, Waterloo Place, Manners & Miller, ... and John Anderson, Junr. in 1825. Scale [ca. 1:6,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' 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, built-up areas and selected buildings, selected names of property owners, parks, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes population statistics from 1821 and note.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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  2. Title: Washington, D.C., 1795 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government after the year 1800, J. Russell, sculpt., Constitu'n Row, Grays Inn Road. It was published in 1795. Scale [ca 1:19,800]. 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, block numbers and proposed government buildings, drainage, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes 'Remarks' and coat-of-arms. 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: 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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  4. Title: Africa (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of an historic continental map of Africa from 1809. This map was originally created by John Russell. 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 Sinusoidal 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 1790.27 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. Russell, John, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Africa (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gk357zj6283. 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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  5. Title: Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1782 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Dublin : taken from an actual survey from the Universal Scots Almanack. It was printed by John Robertson ca. 1782. Scale [ca 1:1,200]. Covers a portion Dublin, Ireland. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Irish National Grid 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, built-up areas and selected buildings, ground cover, and more. 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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  6. Title: London, England, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: London : guide to the International Exhibition, 1862, drawn & engraved by John Dower. It was published by the Illustrated London News in 1862. Scale [ca. 1:15,840]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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 exhibition grounds, roads, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, built-up areas, parks, bridges, docks, and more. Includes explanation of railways. 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: States of America, drawn from the best authorities.

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    Summary: Engraved for Guthries new System of Geography.;"J. C. Russell sculpsit.";Relief shown pictorially.;1 map, hand colored;39 x 44 cm.;ca. 1:6,000,000

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  8. Title: A general map of North America : drawn from the best surveys

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Publish'd as the Act directs." Prime meridian: London.

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  9. Title: London, England, 1767 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The London guide, or, a pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster & borough of Southwark : with the new buildings &c. to the year 1767, by J. Ellis. It was printed for Carington Bowles in 1767. Scale [ca. 1:15,200]. Covers City of London and portions of Westminster, Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, and Lambeth. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, bridges, drainage, land cover, built-up areas, selected public buildings, and more. Includes 'A Table of References to the Churches and Principal Buildings shewing their Situation in the above Plan.' 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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  10. Title: Melville & Bathurst Islands with Cobourg Peninsula North Australia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and text. Depth shown by soundings (in fathoms) and shading. Includes information on land vegetation. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 4 (1834), pp. 129-81; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 4 1834.

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  11. Title: Denmark

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1: 1,600,000]. Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued. Inset maps: "Iceland" ; "Feroe Islands." "Eng. by W. Dassauville ... " Shows boundaries, rivers and principal settlements. Greenwich meridian. Is part of - New general atlas. 1 map ; 52 x 60 centimeters Scale [1: 1,600,000] General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Map no. 4 from the Coo-che-to-pa Pass to the Wahsatch Mountains: from explorations and surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War; by Capt. J.W. Gunnison, top. eng, assisted by Capt. E.G. Beckwith, 3rd artillery; R.H. Kern, topographer in the field.; Explorations and surveys for a rail road route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows drainage, railroads, trails, Indian territories, etc. From: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Includes proposed railroad lines. 1 map; 78 x 57 cm

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  13. Title: Re-examination of the outlet of the south channel of the river St. Clair

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    Summary: 1 map ; 393 x 484 mm. In: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-Third Congress. Part 3. Map 25 to illustrations accompanying the Report of the Colonel of Topographical Engineers. "Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 1, 1st. session, 33rd Congress."

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  14. Title: Héhenschichten-karte von Japan.

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    Summary: Japan--Maps

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  15. Title: Map of a reconnoissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri river and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert ...; by Capt. Howard Stansbury aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison ... and Albert Carrington; drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss.; Map of a reconnaissance between Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri river and the Great Salt Lake in the Territory of Utah, made in 1849 and 1850 under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert, by Capt. Howard Stansbury aided by Lieut. J.W. Gunnison ... and Albert Carrington; drawn by Lieut. Gunnison and Charles Preuss

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Outline color. 1 map: hand col., dissected into 18 sections and mounted on linen; 71 x 174 cm, folded to 25 x 29 cm

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  16. Title: Pompei, Italy, 1829 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de Pompei, de Mr. le Chanoine D. Andre de Joric ; Na. Riccio inc. ; Giosue Russo dis. It was published by Imprimerie Francaise in 1829. Scale [ca. 1:2,500]. Covers Pompei, Italy. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33 North' 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, selected buildings and plans of ancient sites, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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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  17. Title: Afrique (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of an historic continental map of Africa from 1840. Originally created by Victor Levasseur, this map depicts landscapes, fruit, foliage and animals, with descriptive text and statistical information on towns and islands. The map contains 3 insets of Alexandria, Cairo, and Algiers. 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 Sinusoidal 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 4463.56 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. Levasseur, Victor, Bonheur, Raimond, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Afrique (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xw368cf0253. 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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  18. Title: Groton and Ayer, Massachusetts, 1829 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the town of Groton, Middlesex County, Mass. : from a survey made in the years 1828 & 1829, by Caleb Butler, surveyor. It was published by Pendleton's Lithography, ca. 1832. Scale [ca. 1:20,500]. Covers also the town of Ayer, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  19. Title: Annatto Bay

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "1379." Includes 2 coastal profiles: From the anchorage -- Mark when on the Point A of Schoolmaster Shoal.

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  20. Title: St. Lucea harbour

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. At head of title: Jamaica, north-west end. "448." Includes coastal profile: View of the entrance of St. Lucea. Historic Maps copy has label on verso: West Indies. St. Lucea Harbor. 448.

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