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  1. Title: Strasbourg, France, 1734 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Strasbourg ville ancienne celebre et tres fortifiee [sic] du Roy. de France dans la Basse Alsace sur le Rhin = Strasburg eine Uhralte sehr Beruhmte u. nun auch ungemein fortificirte Statt dem Konig in Franckr gehorig in Unter Elsas am Rhein ligend, gravee aux depens de Matth. Seutter, S.C.M. Geogr. a Augsb. = verfertigt u. verlegts M. Seutter, I.R.K. ; Ioh. Thomas Kraus., delin. It was published by M. Seutter in 1734. Scale [ca. 1:11,853]. Covers Strasbourg, France. Map in French and German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 32N' 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, fortification, ground cover, and more. Includes note, ill., and a view. 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: London, England, 1741 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Londinum celeberrima metropolis, splendidissima regia et opulentissimum Angliae emporium, accuratissime delineata per Matthaeum Seutter, Sac. Caes. Maj. Geogr.; Iohann Thomas Kraus delineavit = Eigentlicher Grund Riss und Prospect der weltberühmten Haupt Stadt, prächtigsten königl. Residenz und reichesten Handel Stadt London in Engelland / herauss gegeben von M. Seutter, Ihro R.K.M. Geogr. It was published by M. Seutter ca. 1741. Scale not given. Map in German. 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 drainage, landmarks, open spaces, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also historic text in German about London, and Hanoverian coat of arms with supporters bearing flags of England and Scotland upper left corner. 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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  3. Title: Augsburg, Germany, 1740-1760 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Accurata recens delineata ichnographia celeberrimae liberae imperii civitatis ac Sueviae metropolis Augustae Vindelicorum = Neu verfertigt accurater Grund Riss der hochberuhmten dess Heil. Rom. Reichs freyen u. dess schwabischen Creisses Haupt Statt Augspurg, Ioh. Thomas Kraus, architectus et perspectivicus delineavit ; im Kupfer gestochen un verlegt von M. Seutter, I.R.K.M. geogr. It was published by Matthaus Seutter, between 1740 and 1760. Scale [ca. 1:4,500]. Covers Augsburg, Germany. Map in Latin and German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 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, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes indexes.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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  4. Title: Wassende graade Kaart van alle bekende zeekusten op den geheelen aardbodem: door voogt geogmetra; by Johannes van Keulen.

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    Summary: Prime meridian: [Ferro]. 1 map: col.; 51 x 60 cm.

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  5. Title: Eastern Europe, 1734 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: La Pologne : dressée sur ce qu'en ont donée Starovolsk, Beauplan, Hartnoch, et autres auteurs, rectifiee par les observations d'Hevelius, etc. It was published by: Chez Pierre Schenk in 1734. Scale approximately 1:2,550,000. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  6. Title: Poland and Germany, ca. 1720 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Ducatus in Silesia Inferiore Olsnensis novissima delineatio Wratislaviae. It was published by: Impensis Petri Schenk jun ca. 1720. Scale approximately 1:220,000. Map in Latin. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic (EPSG: 102014) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  7. Title: Stieler's Hand-Atlas ... No. 24. Sud-westliches Deutschland und die Schweiz (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of southwest Germany and Switzerland published in 1872. The original map appears in "Hand Atlas Uber Alle Theile Der Erde Und Uber Das Weltgebaude. Erste Auscabe 1817 Jubel Auscabe 1867. Herausgegeben Von Adolf Stieler. Gotha Justus Perthes." 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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  8. Title: Nord-Westliches Deutschland, Niederlande Und Belgien. Bearbeitet von C. Vogel. Gest v. W. Alt, Berge v. E. Kratz. Gotha: Justus Perthes 1872 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a political map of Germany< Belgium, and the Netherlands, created in 1875. The original map appears in "Hand Atlas Uber Alle Theile Der Erde Und Uber Das Weltgebaude. Herausgegeben Von Adolf Stieler. Gotha Justus Perthes."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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  9. Title: Western and Central Europe, 1831 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Post- und Reise-Karte von Deutschland und den anliegenden Landern : bis London, Havre de Grace, Tours, Lyon, Genua, Bologna, Pesth, Warschau, Konigsberg u. jenseits Kopenhagen, nebst den Haupt-Routen durch das ubrige Europa, herausgegeben, und nach den Postcursen aus meist officiellen Quellen bearbeitet von F. M. Diez ; geographisch entworfen von Ad. St. It was published by Justus Perthes in 1831. Scale [ca. 1:1,500,000]. Covers portion of Central and Western Europe. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes insets: 'Haupt Routen durch Frank Reich, Spanien, Portugal u. Italien' and two showing the main roads through Poland, Latvia and Estonia.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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  10. Title: Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1799 (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 New-York, Tannar, sc. It was published ca. 1799. Scale [ca. 1:12,500]. Covers lower Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn. 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 map shows features such as roads, drainage, city wards, selected public buildings, ferry lines, wharves, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index to points of interest. 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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  11. Title: West-Sibirien

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading, hachures and spot heights. In upper margin: Stielers Hand-Atlas. No. 57.

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  12. Title: Iran & Turan

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. In upper margin: Stielers Hand-Atlas no. 61. Probably issued in: Stielers Hand-atlas ... 9., von Grund aus neubearb. und neugestochene Aufl. Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1905.

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  13. Title: Nord-Polar-karte.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes 12 ancillary detailed maps of various polar regions. "Steiler's hand atlas no. 10." 1 map: col.; 34 x 34 cm.

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  14. Title: Nord-Polar-Karte

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by gradient tints.; Polar projection.; "Stieler's Hand-atlas No. 10."; "Entw. v. Herm. Berghaus 1879. Nachtr. 1883."; "Gest. v. H. Eberhardt u. A. Kramer."; "Die beobachtungs - Stationen f.d.j. 1882/83 sind farbig unterstrichen."; Insets (scales vary): Nord-Pol -- Nord-Durch fahrt -- Pendulum Inseln -- Grónland -- Bering Stasse -- Seestrómungen -- Spitzbergen -- Franz Josefs Land -- Nowaja Semlja -- Nord-Cap -- Neue Vulkane in island -- Jan Mayan -- Nordlight-Verbreitung. 33 x 42 centimeters, on sheet 39 x 47 centimeters Scale 1:20,000,000 General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Karte von Deutschland, dem Königr. der Niederlande, dem Kgr. Belgien, der Schweiz, und den angränzenden Ländern, bis Paris, Lyon, Turin, Mailand, Venedig, Ofen, Königsberg, in XXV Blättern

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Der Helder und Umgebung. Includes key to sheets. Each sheet has paper label on verso with sheet number.

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  16. Title: Ostindien mit den Inseln

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:31,700,000. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Ferro. Shows colonial possessions. Includes index to British East India Company presidencies. Includes list of mountain elevations in Himalayas."Stieler's Schul-Atlas No. XVIIb"--Top right. 19 x 25 centimeters Scale approximately 1:31,700,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  17. Title: Polar-Karte : enthaltend: die Länder u. Meere vom Nord-Pol bis 50° N. Br. u. weiter, mit der úbersicht des Russischen Reichs in Europa, Asia u. America

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    Summary: In upper right: Ausg. in 63 Bl. No. VIII. Stieler's Hand-Atlas (No. 41b).; Below title: "Revidirt, nachgetragen u. neu gestochen 1846." 36 x 30 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  18. Title: Vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Covers also parts of southern Canada and northern Mexico.; Shows cities and towns, trails, Indian tribal territories, drainage, etc.; Prime meridians: Ferro and Greenwich.; "Stieler's Hand-Atlas (Number 46b)" on upper right margin.; "C. Mh. sc." on lower right margin. 30 x 39 centimeters Scale approximately 1:12,500,000 General Map Collection

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  19. Title: Dænemark mit Holstein und Lauenburg : auch südlicher theil von Schweden

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 (E 6°00ʹ00ʺ--E 16°00ʹ00ʺ/N 58°01ʹ00ʺ--N 52°58ʹ00ʺ). Insets: Island -- Fär-öer. "Stieler's Schul-Atlas, No. IX." 1 map : hand color ; 17 x 20 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 General Map Collection

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  20. Title: Afrika entw. u. gez.; von C. G. Reichard.

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    Summary: Insets: Südspitze von Afrika. Scale ca. 1:9,500,000. - Mascarenhas Inseln. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. From Steiler, Adolf. Hand-Atlas über alle theile der Erde ... Gotha J. Perthes [1816-50] map no. [79] Phillips no. 6039. 1 map: col.; 29 x 35 cm

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