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

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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.

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  2. Title: Maine, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Colton's railroad & township map of the state of Maine, with portions of New Hampshire, New Brunswick & Canada. It was published in 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. and C.C. Hall. Scale [ca. 1:550,000]. Covers Maine and portions of New Hampshire and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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, railroads, drainage, town, county, state, and national boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables of statistics. 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 map purposes.

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  3. Title: Map showing the telegraph lines in operation, under contract, and contemplated, to complete the circuit of the globe

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. From the Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers in LC Manuscript Division. Includes note. 41 x 63 centimeters Scale approximately 1:75,000,000. At equator General Map Collection

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  4. Title: City & county map of New-York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures, depth shown by soundings. Includes 6 insets: Map of New York City from an actual survey by James Lyne, 1728 -- Philadelphia -- Boston -- Dr. Adrien Van der Dunk's view of Nieuw Amsterdam, 1656 -- North or Hudson River -- Vicinity of New York showing the principal roads, rail-roads & canals with distance of villas from the city. Includes information from the survey of New York describing width of and distance between streets, and census statistics from 1614 to 1845. Shows wards. 63 x 127 centimeters Scale approximately 1:20,000 City Maps

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  5. Title: Minnesota

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    Summary: Shows area west to Missouri River. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington. "Corrections furnished by N.H. Parker." 1 map: col.; 29 x 39 cm

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  6. Title: Geological railroad & township map of the state of Ohio

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    Summary: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851 by J.H. Colton in the clerk's office of the district court for the southern district of New York.; Map contains geological references and census of the state of Ohio.; Map shows parts of adjoining states.; Map shows longitude west from Greenwich and Washington. 56 x 63 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,550,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: California

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows drainage, railroads and counties.; Inset : City of San Francisco.; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton."; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. 36 x 30 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,168,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Sectional map of the territory of Kansas

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    Summary: Leavenworth Region (Kan.)--Maps

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  9. Title: Michigan

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    Summary: No. 44.; Shows Lower Peninsula.; From 1857 edition of Colton's atlas of the world, cf. Karpinski.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. ..." 36 x 29 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,390,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Nebraska and Kansas.

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    Summary: (W 113°--W 90°/N 49°--N 32°). Relief shown by hachures. Covers Nebraska extending to the Canadian border and westward to Oregon and Kansas including present day Colorado. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton in the clerks office of the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York." Includes text, ill., and insets of the United States and "Territory acquired from Mexico by the Gadsden Treaty." 65 x 53 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,900,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Northern America : British, Russian & Danish possessions in North America

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    Summary: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. in ... the Southern District of New York.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Ornamental border.; Relief shown by hachures. 30 x 39 centimeters Scale [1:19,000,000] General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Colton's Wisconsin

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    Summary: Inset: Vicinity of Milwaukee. Meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "No. 68"--Upper right corner. Text on verso. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the Southn. Dist. of New York." 44 x 37 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,660,000 General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Canada East or Lower Canada and New Brunswick

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    Summary: Inset: Vicinity of Montreal. 30 x 42 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,050,000 General Map Collection

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  14. Title: Washington and Oregon

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; "Number 53."; Includes some tribal names and longitudes from both Greenwich and Washington (D.C.).; Includes Tillamook and Multnomah Counties. 28 x 36 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,576,300 General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Canada West, or, Upper Canada

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    Summary: Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Insets: Wolf Island ; Vicinity of the Welland Canal.; "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855 by J.H. Colton ... for the Southern District of New York."; In margin of copy 2: "No. 6." 29 x 37 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,950,000 General Map Collection

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  16. Title: Iowa [map].

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    Summary: Hand colored. 37 x 43 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,452,680 General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Territories of New Mexico and Utah

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    Summary: Shows natural features, and populated places, wagon route, proposed railroad routes and explorers' routes.; Relief shown by hachures.; Longitude west from Washington and from Greenwich.; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co in the Clerk's Office of the Dist. Court of the U.S. for the Southn. Dist. of New York."; "No. 51."; From an atlas by Colton (title unknown).; Decorative border. 29 x 36 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,550,000 General Map Collection

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  18. Title: Lake Superior and the northern part of Michigan

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1855 by J.H. Colton & Co. ..."; From Colton's atlas of the world. New York: J.H. Colton & Co., 1855?. No. 43. 29 x 42 centimeters Scale approximately 1:1,625,000 General Map Collection

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  19. Title: Minnesota

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Covers Minnesota Territory, including Pembina, and the Yankton, Yanktonnan and Chippewa areas, with Missouri River and White Earth River as western boundary.; Shows counties, townships, Indian tribes, proposed route of the Pacific Railroad, etc. Also shows counties such as Carver, Faribault, Freeborn, and Steele created in 1855; shows Cass County before losing territory to Todd, Stearns, Davis, and Wright counties in Feb. 1855.; "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. ..."; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Includes note.; In bottom right margin: No. 49. 30 x 31 Centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,600,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  20. Title: Minnesota

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Covers Minnesota Territory, extending to White Earth and Missouri rivers to the west.; Shows counties, drainage, and proposed route of Pacific Railroad. Also shows Lake County, changed from old St. Louis County in 1856, and Pine County, created 1856; does not show Martin County, created 1857.; "Entered accoding [sic] to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by J.H. Colton & Co. in ... the Southern District of New York."; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Includes note.; In lower right margin: Number 49. 30 x 41 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,500,000 General Minnesota Maps

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