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

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    • 1857
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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.

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

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    • 1860
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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.

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

    • Image data
    • 1860
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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.

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

    • Raster data
    • 2008
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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.

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

    • Image data
    • 1930
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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Maps shows Indian trails in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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

    • Image data
    • 1930
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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Maps shows Indian trails in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

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

    • Raster data
    • 2010
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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.

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

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    • 1854
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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.

  9. Title: The world as known to the ancients

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    • 1854
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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.

  10. 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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    • 1854
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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.

  11. Title: China

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    • 1854
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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.

  12. Title: Palestine according to its ancient divisions

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    • 1854
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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.

  13. Title: Ancient Syria

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    • 1843
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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.

  14. Title: Bahamas National Hazard Analysis, 2019: InVEST Coastal Vulnerability Model Outputs

    • Not specified
    • 2019
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    Summary: This dataset shares the results of a 2019 coastal hazard and social vulnerability assessment for the entire coastline of The Bahamas. The analysis was conducted at a 250 m resolution and each shore point shows the modeled results relating to exposure to coastal hazards, population at risk and the potential for ecosystems to provide coastal protection for each 250 m segment. These model results were used to conduct the analysis for a peer-reviewed paper and are presented in a web map viewer used by the Bahamian government, NGOs, and the general public to look at shoreline exposure and vulnerability for the different SLR and habitat scenarios. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  15. Title: Map of New York and the adjacent cities (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of New York City, showing wards and public buildings in Manhattan from 225th St. south, and parts of Brooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken. The original appears in 'The West-India Atlas: Or, A Compendious Description Of The West - Indies: Illustrated With Forty One Correct Charts And Maps, Taken From Actual Surveys. Together With An Historical Account Of The Several Countries And Islands Which Compose That Part Of The World'The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  16. Title: (Composite of) A map of South America, containing Tierra-Firma, Guyana, New Granada, Amazonia, Brasil, Peru, Paraguay, Chaco, Tucuman, Chili and Patagonia. From Mr d'Anville with several improvements and additions, and the newest discoveries London, printed for Robert Sayer, no. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs, July the 1st 1787 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of South America originally created by Thomas Kitchin in 1787. The original map appears in "A general atlas, describing the whole universe: being a complete collection of the most approved maps extant; corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the latest discoveries. The whole being an improvement of the maps of D'Anville and Robert. Engraved in the best manner on sixty-two copper-plates, by Thomas Kitchin, Senior, and Others. London: printed For Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet-Street, (1790)." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  17. Title: Martinico, done from actual surveys and observations, made by English engineers whilst the Island was in their possession, by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King. London printed for Robt. Sayer, Map and Printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 20 Feby. 1775 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Martinique (1775) showing forested areas, shoals on coast, anchorages, fortifications, churches, a location labeled "Formerly the Jesuits," sugar works (cattle and water mills), etc. Includes inset map "Cul de Sac Royal" with town of Fort Royal.The original appears in 'The West-India Atlas: Or, A Compendious Description Of The West - Indies: Illustrated With Forty One Correct Charts And Maps, Taken From Actual Surveys. Together With An Historical Account Of The Several Countries And Islands Which Compose That Part Of The World'The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  18. Title: St. Lucia; done from surveys and observations made by the English whilst in their possession, by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King. London, printed for Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, no. 53 in Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20th Feby 1775 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of St. Lucia created in 1775. The original appears in 'The West-India Atlas: Or, A Compendious Description Of The West - Indies: Illustrated With Forty One Correct Charts And Maps, Taken From Actual Surveys. Together With An Historical Account Of The Several Countries And Islands Which Compose That Part Of The World'The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  19. Title: A plan of the city of Quebec, the capital of Canada, as it surrendered 18 Septembr. 1759 to the British fleet and army commanded by Vice Adml. Saunders & Brigadr. Genl. Townshend. Published according to act of Parliament Janry. 15, 1760 by Thos. Jefferys at Charing Cross. Price 2 s (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Quebec originally created by T. Jefferys in 1759. The original map appears in "The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America. Giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce, and languages ... Illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places, collected from the best authorities, and engraved by T. Jefferys, Geographer to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Part I. Containing a description of Canada and Louisiana. London, Printed for Thomas Jefferys at Charing-Cross. MDCCLX."The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

  20. Title: (Composite of) A map of the provinces of Delhi, Agrah, Oude, and Ellahabad comprehending the countries lying between Delhi, and the Bengal Provinces. Surveyed by Major James Rennell, Surveyor General to the Honourable East-India Company, and published by order of the court of directors of said company. By Andrew Dury, published 12th May, 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London. Wm. Haydon sculpt (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of India originally created in 1794. The original map Appears in '(A New Universal Atlas; Exhibiting all the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics, &c. &c. in the Whole World; Being a Complete Collection of the Most Approved Maps Extant; Corrected with the greatest care, and augmented from the last edition of D'Anville and Robert; [de Vaugondy] with many Improvements by Major James Rennel, and other eminent geographers, including all the tracks and new discoveries of the British Circumnavigators, Biron, Wallis, Carteret, Captain James Cook, Vancouver, Perouse, &c. &c. 6th Ed. ... London, R. Laurie & J. Whittle, 1804.'. The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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