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  1. Title: Kansas City, Missouri, 1940 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, topographic paper map entitled: Missouri--Kansas : Kansas City quadrangle, Ed. of 1940, by the United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey; topography by F.W. Hughes and C.A. Killian surveyed in 1934-1935. It was published by the Geological Survey in 1940. Scale 1:31,680. Covers Kansas City, Missouri, and portions of Kansas City, Roeland Park, Westwood, Westwood Hills, Mission Woods, and Mission Hills, Kansas. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Missouri West State Plane Coordinate System NAD27 (in Feet) (Fipszone 2403). 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 is a typical topographic map portraying both natural and manmade features. It shows and names works of nature, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, vegetation, etc. It also identify the principal works of humans, such as roads, railroads, boundaries, transmission lines, major buildings, etc. Relief is shown with standard contour intervals of 10 feet and spot heights. 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: Smith's map of Grant County, Indiana

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    Summary: Cadastral map showing landowners.; Compiled and made from county records and surveys. Scale 1:31,680. 2 inches = 1 mile.

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  3. Title: White's map of Marion, Indiana

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    Summary: Partial cadastral map showing landowners. Shows radial distances. Includes indexes. Scale not given. Compiled and made by F.W. White, C.E.

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  4. Title: Map of Grant County, Indiana

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    Summary: Cadastral map showing landowners. 'F. W. White, draftsman.' Scale 1:31,680. 2 inches = 1 mile. Compiled and made from records and surveys and published by Ansel R. Smith.

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  5. Title: Farm map of Greenwich Township, Warren Co., N.J.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Matthew Hughes ... " Includes vignettes of buildings, list of subscribers and table of distances between villages. Shows names of property owners and number of acres owned. Wall map.

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  6. Title: Farm map of Hillsboro', Somerset Co. N.J.

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    Summary: "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by Matthew Hughes ... " Includes vignettes of buildings, list of subscribers and table of distances between villages. Shows names of property owners and number of acres owned. Wall map.

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  7. Title: Map of Somerville, the seat of justice of Somerset County, N.J.

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    Summary: Wall map. Includes list of subscribers and 24 views of buildings. Historic Maps copy is a wall map removed from original wooden roller.

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  8. Title: Indian trails used in the founding of southern New England

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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Maps shows Indian trails in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

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  9. Title: Route of John Winthrop, Jr., 1645 : November 11-December 5

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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Maps shows Indian trails in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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  10. Title: Middle East, 1853 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Syria, by W. Hughes. It was published by George Cox, Jan. 1st, 1853. Scale [ca. 1:2,200,000]. Covers a portion of the Middle East including all or portions of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a modified 'Europe Lambert Conformal Conic' projection with a central meridian of 38 degrees East 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes note and inset: Continuation from the Dead Sea top Mount Sinai (Scale [ca. 1:2,200,000]). This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Islamic Heritage Project. Maps selected for the project represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes. The Islamic Heritage Project consists of over 100,000 digitized pages from Harvard's collections of Islamic manuscripts and published materials. Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

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  11. Title: Map of the principal countries of the ancient world : extending from the Alps to the southern frontier of Egypt and from Carthage to Persepolis

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset maps: The Roman Empire in its greatest extent (Scale [ca. 1:31,680,000]) -- The Persian Empire in its greatest extent, with the division into satrapies (Scale [ca. 1:31, 680,000]). In upper right-hand margin: LIX. Shows boundaries, rivers and settlements. Greenwich meridian. Plate LIX from: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall, William Hughes ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  12. Title: China

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    Summary: Inset maps: Hainan -- Amoy Island -- Hong Kong -- Chusan. Numbered LV. Shows boundaries, rivers and settlements. Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Probably issued in: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall, Hughes, etc. ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  13. Title: Palestine according to its ancient divisions

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    Summary: Shows locations of the tribes of Israel. Includes modern, classical and Biblical names. Relief shown by hachures. "Compiled and engraved by W. Hughes, Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row, London." Prime meridian: Greenwich. Inset: The peninsula of Mount Sinai. Includes index to locations of tribes of Israel. In upper right-hand margin: XXXVII. From: General atlas of the world : containing upwards of seventy maps / engraved on steel, in the first style of art, by Sidney Hall, William Hughes. Edinburgh : A. & C. Black, 1854.

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  14. Title: The world as known to the ancients

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    Summary: Numbered LVIII. Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Map of Europe, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, showing boundaries, rivers and settlements. From: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel ... by Sidney Hall, William Hughes. Edinburgh : A. & C. Black, 1854.

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  15. Title: Lower Egypt with the peninsula of Mt. Sinai and the journeys of the Israelites

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    Summary: Shows boundaries, rivers, settlements and routes of journeys. Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Probably issued in: General atlas of the world ... / engraved on steel by Sidney Hall, Hughes, etc. ... New edition. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1854.

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  16. Title: Ancient Syria

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset map: Part of Arabia including Mount Sinai and the wanderings of the Israelites : on the same scale.

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  17. Title: Portion of west campus, State University of Iowa, 1939

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    Summary: 1 map

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  18. Title: Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1896

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    Summary: 1 black and white map 68 x 65 cm Scale [ca. 1:5280]

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  19. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 15

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    Summary: Plate 14, Geology map of Township 60 North, Range 2 West, Cook County, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 1/2 mile.

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  20. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 3

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    Summary: Geology of the Gunflint District, Minnesota, scale 1:24,000.

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