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  1. Title: Boston and vicinity, Massachusetts, 1776 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An accurate map of the country round Boston in New England. It was originally published by Archibald Hamilton in Town and country magazine (London), Jan. 16, 1776. Scale [ca. 1:362,500]. 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, selected public buildings, town boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes ancillary map: A plan of Boston and Charlestown, from a drawing made in 1771, with index to points of interest. 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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  2. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Philadelphia, M.H. Traubel sct. It was published by A. McElroy in 1849. Scale [ca. 14,000]. Covers Philadelphia and a portion of Camden, New Jersey. 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, built-up areas, selected public buildings, 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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  3. Title: New England Railroads, 1838 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Sketch of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and parts of New Hampshire & New York exhibiting the several rail road routes completed, constructing, chartered & contemplated : published by order of the Legislature of Massachusetts, drawn by A. Kennedy ; engraved by Morse & Tuttle. It was published in 1838. Scale [ca. 1:700,000]. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, completed, chartered, and contemplated railroads, drainage, state and county boundaries, and more. 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 purposes.

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  4. Title: Zoning Map, Norwood, Massachusetts, 1976 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Zoning map of the town of Norwood, Mass., R. A. Hamilton, Town Engineer. It was published by the Town of Norwood in 1976. Scale [ca. 1:10,000]. 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, airport access, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. 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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  5. Title: South Africa, from official and other authentic authorities (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This raster layer is a georeferenced image of an historic regional map of Southern Africa originally created by Archibald Fullerton ca. 1870-1872. This map contains an inset: Peninsula of the Cape. 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 623.502 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. Fullarton, Archibald, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). South Africa, From official and other authentic authorities (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gd455vk9424. 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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  6. Title: South Africa from Official and other authentic Authorities (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This raster layer is a georeferenced image of an historic regional map of Southern Africa from the 19th century, originally created by Archibald Fullerton. 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 scanned and 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 827.632 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. Fullarton, Archbald, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). South Africa from Official and other authentic Authorities (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/yh473tv9289. 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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  7. Title: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1827 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Hamilton's plan of the city of Edinburgh and its vicinity, drawn & engd. by Charles Thomson Edinr. It was published by Robert Hamilton Ornamental Stationer to His Majesty in 1827. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. Covers Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.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, parks, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations and inset: Plan of the environs of Edinburgh.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: Hinterindien

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    Summary: At head of map: Berghaus' Atlas von Asia. No. 8. "Zum Anerkenntniss seiner grossen Verdienste um die Kunde des Indo-chinesischen Halbinsellandes gewidmet von Verfasser." Relief shown by hachures. Plate 8 from: Atlas von Asia. Gotha : J. Perthes, 1832.

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  9. Title: The tourist's pocket map of Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Shows stage roads. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Inset: The North west part of Michigan. Includes tables of steam boat routes. Scale approximately 1:1,640,000

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  10. Title: The road from London to York

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of a road from London to York via Stamford, Grantham, Newark-on-Trent, and Doncaster, depicted in ten narrow strips. Shows cities and towns, mile markers, rivers, and road junctions. Notes: Relief shown pictorially. North orientation varies. North arrows not shown. Map detached from: The gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle. Volume XXXVI : for the year M.CDD.LXVI. London : Printed for D. Henry and R. Cave, 1766. Map was originally published in the June 1766 issue. Includes note. Scale approximately 1:320,000

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  11. Title: An accurate map of his R. H. the Duke of York's journey thro Italy in 1763 & 1764

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Scale approximately 1:2,300,000

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  12. Title: The British governments in Nth. America

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Shows colonial boundaries and locations of Indian tribes. Relief indicated pictorially. Map detached from: Gentleman's magazine. Vol. 33 (1763), p. 612. Prime meridian: Ferro. Inset: Bermuda or Summer Islands. Scale approximately 1:221,760. Scale approximately 1:15,206,000

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  13. Title: Parcel Map, Hamilton, Massachusetts, 1996 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Town of Hamilton, Massachusetts parcel map, produced by the Wenham-Hamilton Bay Circuit Project with funding by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management. It was published by Wenham-Hamilton Bay Circuit Project in 1996. Scale [1:12,000] 1 in. = 1000 ft. 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 parcels. 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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  14. Title: Geologic map of the 1° x 2° Cincinnati Quadrangle, Indiana and Ohio, showing bedrock and unconsolidated deposits

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    Summary: 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. Scale 1:250,000; Transverse Mercator projection By Henry H. Gray, Jane L. Forsyth, Allan F. Schneider, and Ansel M. Gooding.

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  15. Title: Map of Korea

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and hachures. Inset: A map of Eastern Asia to illustrate the Russo-Japanese dispute.

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  16. Title: Map of the state of Texas from the latest authorities

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Includes the population, etc. of Texas according to the Census of 1850, and information on the Rio Grande, El Llano Estacado, Great Indian Crossing and railroads in Texas.; "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Charles Desilver, in the Clerks office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Insets: Northern Texas--Map of the Vicinity of Galveston City.; In lower right margin: 25. 30 x 37 centimeters Scale 1:3,400,000 General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Atlas plate 36. Longitude west from Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Explanatory text includes "Lands of the Dakota or Sioux Indians" and "Minni Wakan Lake." Map may have been published in 1856 or later. 13 x 16 inches General Minnesota Maps

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  18. Title: Map of Minnesota Territory

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows counties as of 1855.; Includes text: Lands of the Dakota or Sioux Indians. 30 x 38 centimeters Scale 1:2,400,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  19. Title: Map of Minnesota Territory

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Includes text: Lands of the Dakota or Sioux Indians.; Shows Todd and Stearns counties, created in 1855; does not show Meeker and McLeod counties, created in 1856.; Does not include number in margin. 30 x 38 Centimeters Scale 1:2,400,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  20. Title: Map of Minnesota Territory

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    Summary: Atlas plate 36. Longitude west from Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Explanatory text includes "Lands of the Dacota or Sioux Indians" and "Minni Wakan Lake." 13 x 16 inches General Minnesota Maps

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