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  1. Title: Central Africa

    • Image data
    • 1900
    Contributors:

    Summary: Title from cover. Commentary to accompany set of lantern slides.

  2. Title: Transportation System (Including Proposed), MAPC, Massachusetts, 1976 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2014
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regional report : 1976 existing & proposed transportation network / Metropolitan Area Planning Council ; drawn by J. Gray and R. Hundt, CTPS. It was published by Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1976. Scale [ca. 1:96,000]. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also transportation legend, airports, watershed names, and harbor features. 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.

  3. Title: Transportation System, MAPC, Massachusetts, 1960 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2014
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Regional report : 1950-1960 transportation system / Metropolitan Area Planning Council ; drawn by J. Gray and R. Hundt, CTPS. It was published by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council in 1976. Scale [ca. 1:96,000]. 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, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also transportation legend, airports, watershed names, and harbor features. 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.

  4. Title: Gray's new map of the United States

    • Not specified
    • 1897
    Contributors:

    Summary: Includes 2 insets: Territorial district of Alaska -- Sketch exhibiting the Westward movement of the Centre of population.; Relief shown by hachures. 41 x 68 centimeters

  5. Title: Gray's new map of the United States

    • Thematic maps
    • 1879
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    Summary: Scale 1:7,603,200.; 1 map; 41 x 68 cm United States--Maps

  6. Title: Railroad map of Michigan prepared for the Commissioner of Railroads by O.W. Gray & Son.

    • Not specified
    • 1876
    Contributors:

    Summary: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1874 by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. ... Appears in Michigan Railroad Commission. Fourth annual report. 1876, and in McCracken, S. B. The state of Michigan. Lansing, 1876. Includes inset of "part of Michigan" (western Upper Peninsula). 1 map: hand col.; 58 x 40 cm

  7. Title: Iowa, 1875

    • Not specified
    • 1875
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    Summary: 1 map

  8. Title: Gray's atlas map of Mexico ; Gray's atlas map of West Indies and Central America

    • Image data
    • 1874
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "81-82." Inset: The isthmus of Tehuantepec. From: Gray's atlas of the United States / by O.W. Gray. Philadelphia : Stedman, Brown & Lyon, 1874.

  9. Title: Indiana

    • Not specified
    • 1874
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    Summary: Scale: 1:760,320; Dimensions: 70 x 43 cm

  10. Title: Gray's atlas map of Iowa, 1873

    • Not specified
    • 1873
    Contributors:

    Summary: 1 map

  11. Title: Geologic map of the 1° x 2° Vincennes Quadrangle and parts of adjoining quadrangles, Indiana and Illinois, showing bedrock and unconsolidated deposits

    • Geological cross-sections ; Quadrangle maps ; Geological maps
    • 1910
    Contributors:

    Summary: By Henry H. Gray, William J. Wayne, and Charles E. Wier , Indiana Geological Survey, in cooperation with Illinois State Geological Survey. Transverse Mercator projection. Vincennes sheet shows both bedrock and unconsolidated deposits, sheet A shows only bedrock, and sheet B shows only unconsolidated deposits. Each sheet includes in borders columnar section showing bedrock units, cross section showing configuration of land surface and bedrock units, schematic section showing relationships of unconsolidated deposits, index map showing published quadrangles, sectionized township diagram, and diagrams showing areas of primary responsibility for glacial geology and bedrock geology. Imprint: [Bloomington, Ind.] : The Survey, 1970 Dimensions: 76 x 102 cm; Scale: 1:250,000. Vertical scale approximately 1:11,500

  12. Title: Amherst, Massachusetts, 1833 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of Amherst with a view of the college and Mount Pleasant Institution, by Alonzo Gray & Charles B. Adams. It was published by Pendleton's Lithography, 1833. Scale [1:20,000].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.), land cover, private buildings with names of property owners, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes notes on the history of Amherst and Amherst College; illustrated views of Mount Pleasant Institution and Amherst College; explanation of symbols (legend).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.

  13. Title: Geologic map of the 1° x 2° Cincinnati Quadrangle, Indiana and Ohio, showing bedrock and unconsolidated deposits

    • Geological maps
    • 1972
    Contributors:

    Summary: By Henry H. Gray, Jane L. Forsyth, Allan F. Schneider, and Ansel M. Gooding. Transverse Mercator projection. "Base map modified from Army Map Service, Map NJ 16-3, 1964." Includes text, cross section, columnar section, diagram, schematic section, ancillary map, and index map. Imprint: [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana Geological Survey, 1972 Dimensions: 73 x 66 cm; Scale: 1:250,000 Coordinates: W0860000 W0840000 N0400000 N0390000

  14. Title: Gray's Atlas Map of New York.

    • Not specified
    • 1873
    Contributors:

    Summary: Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington. Includes inset maps of : Albany, Troy, Vicinity of New York, Oswego, Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse. Includes on verso : Gray's atlas map of New York City, and Gray's atlas map of Connecticut with portions of New York & Rhode Island. 42 x 61 centimeters

  15. Title: A diocesan map of the Church of England in Newfoundland and Labrador : showing the deaneries and missions

    • Not specified
    • 1877
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:1,250,000] (W 65°30'--W 52°30'/N 61°15'--N46°20') Probably done by Joseph James Curling as preface on accompanying text (catalogued separately) is signed J.J.C. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights in feet. Insets: [continuation of map] -- [North Atlantic Ocean]. 1 map : color ; 60 x 94 cm

  16. Title: Geologic map of the 1° x 2° Louisville quadrangle, Indiana, showing bedrock and unconsolidated deposits

    • Geological cross-sections ; Quadrangle maps ; Geological maps
    • 1972
    Contributors:

    Summary: By Henry H. Gray. Compiled by H. H. Gray and A. M. Burger. Drafted by J. R. Tolen. Base map modified from Army Map Service Map NJ16-6, 1964. Transverse Mercator projection. Relief shown by profile. Main map shows both bedrock and unconsolidated deposits, part A shows only bedrock, and part B shows only unconsolidated deposits. Imprint: [Bloomington, Indiana] : Indiana Geological Survey, 1972 Dimensions: 66 x 102 cm

  17. Title: Geological Map of Ohio

    • Geological cross-sections ; Geological maps
    • 1872
    Contributors:

    Summary: 1 map : hand col. ; 36 x 26 cm. Includes "Section through northern Ohio," "Section from Cincinnati to Marietta," and explanation of colors.

  18. Title: Route map of journey through North-East Brazil by James W. Wells, civil engineer Engraved by Edwd. Weller

    • Image data
    • 1876
    Contributors:

    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

  19. Title: Mapping Rome

    • Not specified
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: This collection of digitized cartographic and historic data pertains to the city of Rome, Italy. Included within are assets such as the “Nolli Map” (La Pianta Grande di Roma) of 1748. Associated with this map are a number of related cartographic assets: (a) 1320 indexed sites or “Nolli Points,” which are numerical keys associated with specific sites in the city; (b) the polygonal outlines of buildings on Nolli’s map; (c) the polygonal outlines of landscape features such as vineyards, parks, villas found on Nolli’s map; (d) the polygonal outlines of the historical neighborhoods of Rome, known as rioni; and (e) the polygonal outline of the Tiber River flowing through the city.

  20. Title: A plan of the city of New York from an actual survey

    • Image data
    • 2018
    Contributors:

    Summary: Facsimile. Dedicated by William Bradford to John Montgomerie, governor of New York and New Jersey. The date 1728 occurs below coat of arms in upper right corner. Detailed plan of city with named streets and blocks of buildings. Table of references identifies major buildings.

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