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  1. Title: Geological map of Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior, Michigan; by J. W. Foster & J. D. Whitney; S. W. Hill and W. Schlatter, assistants.

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights and hachures; depths shown by soundings. Shows mineral lands, mines, and furnaces. Appears in: Jackson, Charles T. Report of the geological and mineralogical survey of the mineral lands of the United States in the state of Michigan. Washington, 1849. between p. 624 and 625. 1 map: hand col.; 28 x 56 cm.

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  2. Title: Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, 1837 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Massachusetts, Rhode-Island & Connecticut : compiled from the latest authorities, engraved by J. Wells. It was published by A.F. Wilcox & Co. in 1837. Scale [ca. 1:442,000].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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 cities and towns, roads, railroads, drainage, churches, academies, banks, court houses, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), town, county, and state boundaries, and more. It also includes many inset maps of the major cities of New England.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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  3. Title: Illinois, Missouri & Iowa, 1864

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    Summary: 1 color map 26 x 21 cm Scale [ca. 1:3,900,000] W 96°--W 87°/N 44°--N 35°

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  4. Title: Outline map of Paris, France : showing principal places of interest

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    Summary: In upper margin: If you go to the Paris Exposition you will find this map a great convenience. Includes advertisements for wood products manufactured by John W. Boughton. Includes calendars for 1900 and 1901. Map on side 2 has title: Map of London, England.

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  5. Title: Provincetown Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1799 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: This chart of Cape Cod and Harbour is dedicated to the Boston Marine Society by their friend & brother, John Foster Williams. It was published in 1799. Scale [ca. 1:6,450]. Covers Cape Cod from Truro to Provincetown including Provincetown Harbor, 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 is a nautical chart showing coastal features such as anchor points, currents, points, inlets, coves, and more. Shows also land features: windmills, lighthouse, and buildings pictorially. Harbor depths are shown by soundings. Includes text 'Directions for sailing by Cape-Cod Light-House and into Cape-Harbour.' 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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  6. Title: Route map of journey through North-East Brazil by James W. Wells, civil engineer Engraved by Edwd. Weller

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Lines of Wells's route, proposed railway, and roads are shown. Includes information on soil quality and indigenous territories. Campos geraes - grass land with occasional belts of forest - and campinas - grass land devoid of bush only found on the high table land - are shown. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 46 (1876), pp. 308-28; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 46 1876

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  7. Title: Havana, Cuba, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plano pintoresco de la Habana : con los numeros de las casas, W. S. Barnard engraver. It was published by W. S. Barnard in 1849. Scale [ca 1: 9,900]. Map in Spanish.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'NAD 1927 Cuba Norte' 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, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Includes text, views, and inset: Puerto y Cercanias de la Habana. 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: Plano de la Habana : con los números de las casas y la division civil, judicial, eclesiástica y de instruccion pública y los planos particulares del puerto, Regla, Guanabacoa, Marianao y cercanías de la Habana

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings. Insets: Cercanias de la Habana -- La Asuncion de Guanabacoa -- Plano de los pueblos Marianao y Quemados -- Plano del puerto de la Habana. Originally issued folded in covers (21 x 14 cm.)

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  9. Title: Mapa topografica pintoresco de la isla de Cuba

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Longitude incorrectly marked 78°-69°. Includes an aerial view illustration: La Habana, a cross section profile of the island, and a comparative chart of the rivers. Inserts: Mapa fisico; Mapa mineralogico; Mapa agricola; Cuba antigua.

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  10. Title: Sketch map of the Chobe River by Dr. Benjn. F. Bradshaw, 1880

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    Summary: Terrain and ground cover along river banks shown by color, shading, and pictorially. Widths of river and heights of banks are shown. Villages, paths, stations, and ferries along river are shown. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 4, pp. 208-13; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  11. Title: Discoveries along the south coast of Franz-Josef Land by Mr. B. Leigh Smith, 1880

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    Summary: Route, direction, and dates of voyage are shown. Ice sheets and icebergs along route shown in blue. Depth shown by soundings. Relief shown by hachures. Conjectural coastlines shown by broken lines. Site of abandonment of Tegetthoff [Austrian vessel] in 1874 is shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 3, pp. 129-50; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  12. Title: General map of South Africa by W. J. Turner showing the comparative distances from Cape Town with those of European cities from London

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    Summary: Comparative linear distances from London to various European cities shown in red, and superimposed on Cape Town and African coasts. Northern limit of the temperate region is shown. Boundaries of British possessions, Portuguese territory, Matabele Kingdom, and Marutse-Mabunda Empire are shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 1, pp. 1-19; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  13. Title: Map of the north end of Lake Nyassa surveyed by Mr. Jas. Stewart, C. E., Livingstonia Mission, 1880

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Expedition routes of Stewart, Elton, and Thomson are shown. "This map is a continuation and correction, on the same scale, of Mr. Stewart's former maps published in the 'Proceedings' May 1879 & July 1880." Includes note: "[peaks labeled] a, b, c, d, e, are peaks of the Livingstone Range surveyed by compass bearings from the west coast. The eastern coast-line has been sketched in approximately parallel to the line of peaks." From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 5, pp. 257-77; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  14. Title: Map of Sikkim and parts of the adjacent territories to illustrate sir R. Temple's paper

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Boundaries of Sikkim with Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Chumbi Valley, and Bengal Province are shown. Roads and mountain passes are shown. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 6, pp. 321-40; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  15. Title: Map of the Central Zambesi region constructed from the route surveys & observations of Livingstone, Baines, Mohr, Pinto, Holub, and other travellers, combined with the sketches of Mr. F. C. Selous, by W. J. Turner

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Routes of Mr. Selous in 1874, 1877, and 1879 shown in red. Cataracts, marshes and salt plains are shown. Kingdoms and empires in region are labeled. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 3, pp. 169-75; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  16. Title: Sketch map of explorations in the neighbourhood of St. Salvador (Congo) by the Rev. T. J. Comber, 1880

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    Summary: Congo River's course according to Mr. [Henry Morton] Stanley is shown. River's previously supposed course according to Captn. [James Hingston] Tuckey superimposed in hairline. Expedition route shown in red. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 3 (1881), no. 1, pp. 20-6; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  17. Title: Map of the central portion of South Africa illustrating Dr. Holub's journeys 1873-9 constructed from his original drawings collated with the routes of other travellers and the most recent material by W. J. Turner

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    Summary: Boundaries of British territory, Orange Free State, independent Bechuana [Tswana] kingdoms, Marutse-Mabunda Empire, and Matabele (Zulu) Kingdom are shown. Relief shown by hachures. Dr. Holub's routes shown in red. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 3, pp. 166-82; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  18. Title: Route survey between Lakes Nyassa & Tanganyika by Mr. Jas. Stewart C.E., Livingstonia Mission, 1879

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    Summary: Author's route shown in red. Includes elevation profile: Horizontal section along Mr. Stewart's route. Proportion of vertical scale to horizontal given [inaccurately] as 206 to 1. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 7, pp. 428-31; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  19. Title: Estancia de San Jorge, Uruguay from a survey by Don Juan Frugoni, Durazno, 1867

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    Summary: Shows tributaries of Rio Negro in vicinity of San Jorge. Vegetation along rivers and route from Montevideo to Tacuarembó are shown. Watersheds [drainage divides] between Rio Negro, Carpinteria, Chileno, and Yí Rivers are shown. Includes inset map of Uruguay [scale approximately 1:5,593,000]. Departmental boundaries are shown. Relief shown by hachures. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 11, pp. 663-89; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873 Includes inset map of Uruguay [scale ca. 1:5,593,000]. Departmental boundaries are shown.

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  20. Title: Map of the Pishin Valley and upper basin of the Lora constructed from the surveys & reconnaissances executed by officers attached to the forces serving in southern Afghanistan, 1879, collated with Major Wilson's map by W. J. Turner

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    Summary: Roads, passes, and settlements are shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 2 (1880), no. 4, pp. 212-46; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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