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  1. Title: Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town Region, South Africa, Nautical Chart, 1822 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, paper map entitled: Survey of the Cape of Good Hope, by Lieut. A.T.E. Vidal of H.M.S. Leven, assisted by Captn. Chas. Lechmere, R.N. Lieut T. Boteler, and Mr. H.A. Gibbons, Admlty. Midn. under the direction of Captn. W.F.W. Owen, 1822. J. & C. Walker sculpt. It was published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographical Office of the Admiralty, 4th March 1828. Scale [ca. 1:153,512]. Covers the Cape Peninsula region, including False Bay and Cape Town, South Africa. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'WGS 1984 UTM 34S' 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 coastal features such as beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, anchorage points, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, drainage, land cover, selected buildings, towns, and more. Relief shown by contours; depths by soundings. Includes notes, table of heights, and two views. 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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  2. Title: Plat book of Redwood County, Minnesota

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    Summary: 44 x 36 centimeters Scale [1:42,240] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  3. Title: Maps illustrating Mr. R. Gordon's paper

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    Summary: Shows courses of Tsangpo, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy Rivers and their tributaries according to various sources. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 7 (1885), no. 5, pp. 292-331; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  4. Title: Mapa general de caminos de España y de Portugal : con las nuevas divisiones de Provincias : sirve de continuacion al Atlas nacional de España

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Alrededores de Madrid.

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  5. Title: Mapa de Rno. de Leon y del Principado de Asturias con las nuevas divisiones

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Plancha 2a. Atlas nacional de España. Date of publication suggested by mapseller's label on verso. The firm of Andriveau-Goujon was locased at rue du Bac 4 in 1876. cf. Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers.

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  6. Title: Payne's illustrated plan of London.; London in 1851

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    Summary: Street map. Includes vignettes of "London from Hampstead Heath" and the Parliamentary building. 1 map: hand col.; 38 x 73 cm., folded to 18 x 12 cm.

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  7. Title: Mapa de Aragón con las nuevas divisiones

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Atlas nacional de Espan̋a. Plancha 5a. In lower margin: Descripcion estadística de Aragon.

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  8. Title: Carte de la Chine et des états-tributaires

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. From: Atlas de géographie / A. H. Dufour, ... Paris ; et Toulouse : Vve Turgis, 1840.

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  9. Title: Carte physique, politique & comparée de Turquie d'Europe : présentée à S.A.R. Mge. le Dauphin ...

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures; political boundaries outlined in watercolor. Includes "Division et population de la Turquie d'Europe, avant le 1er. Janvier 1820." Historic Maps copy has stamped initials of publisher on map recto.

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  10. Title: Road map of Northeastern Indiana

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    Summary: Blue line. Scale approximately 1:200,000.

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  11. Title: Map of the action at Drainsville, Va., December 20th 1861. U.S. forces commanded by Brig Gen. E.O.C. Ord.

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; 40 x 26 cm Dranesville (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps

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  12. Title: Eastern Virginia, ca. 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of a part of Eastern Virginia : including portions of Spotsylvania Co. and adjoining counties, compiled under the direction of Col. J.N. Macomb, A.D.C. Maj. Top'l. Engr. ; by Capt. W.H. Paine, A.D.C. It was published by Coast Survey Office ca. 1862. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Virginia North State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 4501) 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, selected buildings with names of landowners, ground cover, 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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  13. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1874 (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 Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in 1874. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. 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, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, wharves, ferry routes, 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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  14. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1886 (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 Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. in 1886. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. 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, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, ferry routes, 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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  15. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 1

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of northeastern Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 15 miles.

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  16. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 5

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of the Granite Falls area, Minnesota, showing locations of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 1/4 mile.

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  17. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 4

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    Summary: Map of western part of the Lake Superior region, Minnesota, showing location of samples that were age-dated by radioactive isotope methods, scale 1 inch = about 40 miles.

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  18. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 2

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of east-central Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 10 miles.

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  19. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 3

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    Summary: Map of the Minnesota-Ontario border region, showing location of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 20 miles.

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  20. Title: Map of western Washington, showing classification of lands; by John W. Rankine and Geo. H. Plummer, 1898.

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    Summary: Shows cut areas, timbered and timberless areas, burned areas, and Northern Pacific land grant boundaries. Plate III from the "Nineteenth annual report" of the U.S. Geological Survey, Part 5, Forest reserves (1898). Public land grid. "Julius Bien & Co. Lith. N.Y." 1 map: col.; 107 x 70 cm

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