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  1. Title: Denmark

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1: 1,600,000]. Imprint derived from the atlas in which the map was issued. Inset maps: "Iceland" ; "Feroe Islands." "Eng. by W. Dassauville ... " Shows boundaries, rivers and principal settlements. Greenwich meridian. Is part of - New general atlas. 1 map ; 52 x 60 centimeters Scale [1: 1,600,000] General Map Collection

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  2. Title: Maine, 1802 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the district of Maine, Massachusetts : compiled from actual surveys made by order of the General Court and under the inspection of agents of their appointment by Osgood Carleton ; drawn by G. Graham ; engraved by J. Callender & S. Hill. It was published in 1802 by B. & J. Loring. Scale [ca. 1:390,000]. Covers Maine and portions of New Hampshire, 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; selected mills, factories, meeting houses, and court houses; drainage; land grant, town, county, state, and national boundaries; distances of each town from Boston and the shire town, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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: Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers headwaters, New York, 1790 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the head waters of the rivers Susquehanna & Delaware embracing the early patents on the south side of the Mohawk River : from the original, drawn about the year 1790, by Simeon DeWitt, Esq. ... ; with the date of each patent now appended from the rec. in surveyr. genls. office, by E.B. O'C. It was published by Weed, Parsons & Co. in 1849. Scale [ca. 1:260,000]. Covers portion of Central New York including Oneida, Herkimer, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie, Otsego, Delaware, and Greene Counties. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 is a cadastral map showing property boundaries, names of property owners, dates of patent, drainage, and more. Includes ill. 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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  4. Title: Spain and Portugal

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: No. 23. Faint image of illegible text visible below neat line; removed from engraving plate used for a previous issue, probably the issue of 12th Dec. 1815 engraved by S.I. Neele. Probably issued in: A new general atlas ... Edinburgh : Printed for John Thomson & Co., 1821.

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  5. Title: Europe; J. & G. Menzies sculpt.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Greenwich prime meridian. Bar scales in British statute miles, Common French leagues and German, Dutch & Polish miles. "No. 8" from Thomson's new general atlas. 1 map: hand col.; 43 x 51 cm

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  6. Title: W.H. Pumphrey's map of western Washington : compiled from official records and personal reconnaissance

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    Summary: 1891--Cover.; Hand colored.; Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. 126 x 177 centimeters on 2 sheets Scale 1:380,160 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Washington, D.C., 1795 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government after the year 1800, J. Russell, sculpt., Constitu'n Row, Grays Inn Road. It was published in 1795. Scale [ca 1:19,800]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Maryland State Plane Coordinate System Meters NAD83 (Fipszone 1900). 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, block numbers and proposed government buildings, drainage, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Includes 'Remarks' and coat-of-arms. 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: The United States from the latest authorites

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows western trails and Indian tribes.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; From Hayward's Gazetteer of USA 1853. 53 x 99 centimeters Scale approximately 1:5,000,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-44

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Originally published in report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. By Brevet Captain F.C. Fremont, of the Topographical Engineers, under the Orders of Col. F.F. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau. Printed by the order of the Senate of the United States. Washington. Gales and Seaton, Printers. 1845 (28th Cong., 2nd Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 174, Serial 461.).; Cited in Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861 ; volume 2, number 497.; Includes: Profile of the route from the mouth of the Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J.C. Fremont in 1843. 77 x 129 centimeters Scale 1:3,000,000; 47.35 miles to one inch General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842: and to Oregon & North California in the years 1843-44 by J.C. Fremont ... under the orders of J.J. Abert, Chief of the Topographical Bureau.

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    Summary: Includes: Profile of the route from the mouth of the Kansas to the Pacific by Capt. J.C. Fremont in 1843. Scale 1:3,000,000. Or 47,35 [i.e. 47.35] miles to one in. MiU copy mounted on chartex. From "Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains inyear 1842, and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44". 1 map on 2 sheets: col.; 76 x 127 cm.

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  11. Title: Africa (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of an historic continental map of Africa from 1809. This map was originally created by John Russell. 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 Sinusoidal 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 1790.27 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. Russell, John, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Africa (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/gk357zj6283. 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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  12. Title: Dublin, Ireland, ca. 1782 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of Dublin : taken from an actual survey from the Universal Scots Almanack. It was printed by John Robertson ca. 1782. Scale [ca 1:1,200]. Covers a portion Dublin, Ireland. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Irish 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, ground cover, and more. Includes index. 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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  13. Title: London, England, 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: London : guide to the International Exhibition, 1862, drawn & engraved by John Dower. It was published by the Illustrated London News in 1862. Scale [ca. 1:15,840]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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 exhibition grounds, roads, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, built-up areas, parks, bridges, docks, and more. Includes explanation of railways. 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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  14. Title: States of America, drawn from the best authorities.

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    Summary: Engraved for Guthries new System of Geography.;"J. C. Russell sculpsit.";Relief shown pictorially.;1 map, hand colored;39 x 44 cm.;ca. 1:6,000,000

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  15. Title: A general map of North America : drawn from the best surveys

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Publish'd as the Act directs." Prime meridian: London.

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  16. Title: Geologic and topographic section across southern Indiana: from Hanover to Vincennes embracing township three north

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. 'Contour interval 40 feet.' From the 26th Annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 1901. 'Plate II.' Scale 1:126,720. 2 miles = 1 in. By J.F. Newsom, director, and assistants.

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  17. Title: Geologic map of the Knobstone group, Indiana (Crawfordsville sheet)

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    Summary: From the 26th Annual report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 1901. 'Plate IV.' Scale 1:190,080. 3 miles = 1 in. By J.F. Newsom, director, and assistants.

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  18. Title: Geologic map of the Knobstone group, Indiana (New Albany sheet)

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    Summary: Relief shown by contour lines. From the 26th Annual report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 1901. 'Plate III.' Scale 1:190,080. 3 miles = 1 in. By J.F. Newsom, director, and assistants.

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  19. 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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  20. Title: London, England, 1767 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The London guide, or, a pocket plan of the cities of London & Westminster & borough of Southwark : with the new buildings &c. to the year 1767, by J. Ellis. It was printed for Carington Bowles in 1767. Scale [ca. 1:15,200]. Covers City of London and portions of Westminster, Camden, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Southwark, and Lambeth. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, bridges, drainage, land cover, built-up areas, selected public buildings, and more. Includes 'A Table of References to the Churches and Principal Buildings shewing their Situation in the above Plan.' 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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