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  1. Title: A more or less inaccurate map of Taos, New Mexico : and guide to the land of mañana in a state of peace

    • Image data
    • 1940
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. "Scale of miles? Everything is out of scale around here so what's the use!" From: Four hundred years in Taos / Ruth G. Fish. Taos, N.M. : El Crepusculo, [1940?]

  2. Title: Global GIS : international river basins of the world

    • Polygon data
    • 2003
    Contributors:

    Summary: This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database dataset: international river basins of the world. This version of the datalayer was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database (2003). Does not cover Antarctica. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

  3. Title: Ward, Lock, & Co.s plan of the city of Paris

    • Image data
    • 1905
    Contributors:

    Summary: Shows railways, underground railways, and tramway routes; underground railways routes outlined in green. Probably issued in: A pictorial and descriptive guide to Paris ... London : Ward, Lock and Co., [1905?]

  4. Title: Johnson's Michigan and Wisconsin; by Johnson and Ward.

    • Not specified
    • 1862
    Contributors:

    Summary: Prime meridians at Greenwich and Washington. Includes view of Straits of Mackinaw. Probably detached from an atlas by Alvin J. Johnson, no. 45-46. In upper left margin: 45. In upper right margin: 46. 1 map: hand colored; 44 x 57 cm.

  5. Title: Johnson's Minnesota and Dakota

    • Not specified
    • 1861
    Contributors:

    Summary: Atlas plate 64. Longitude west from Greenwich and Washington, D.C. "Aggregate Statistics of the United States" tables for 1860 on verso. 14 x 18 inches

  6. Title: Johnson's new military map of the United States showing the forts, military posts &c. with enlarged plans of southern harbors

    • Image data
    • 1861
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. Insets: New Orleans and delta of Mississippi, Louisiana -- Mobile Bay, Alabama -- Entrance to Pensacola Bay, Florida -- Key West, Florida -- Savannah River -- Charleston Harbor, S. Carolina -- Hampton Roads and Norfolk Harbor, Virginia -- Washington and vicinity -- Baltimore and vicinity. From Johnson, A. J. Johnson's new illustrated family atlas. New York, 1862. no.20-21.

  7. Title: Newton, Massachusetts, 1831 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2006
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the town of Newton, Mass., surveyed by E.F. Woodward & W.F. Ward. It was published by Annin, Smith, & Co.'s Lithogy. in Nov. 1831. Scale [ca. 1:20,660]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries and more. The map shows town boundaries as of 1831 and thus covers also portions of modern day Waltham and Boston. Manuscript annotations on the map show approximate locations of current town boundaries. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

  8. Title: Map showing the plane-table and compass traverse, in southeastern Tibet

    • Not specified
    • 1926
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights.; From the Geographical Journal Feb., 1926.; Includes Latitudes and inset. 35 x 50 Centimeters

  9. Title: Soil map of Jefferson County

    • Geological maps
    • 1908
    Contributors:

    Summary: Detached from: A soil survey of Decatur, Jennings, Jefferson, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio, and Switzerland counties, Indiana / L.C. Ward. In Indiana Dept. of Geology and Natural Resources thirty-second annual report, 1907. Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1908. Page 204. Imprint: [Indianapolis] : [Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources], [1908] Dimensions: on sheet 23 x 25 cm; Scale: Scale not given.

  10. Title: Soil map of Switzerland County

    • Thematic maps
    • 1908
    Contributors:

    Summary: Detached from: A soil survey of Decatur, Jennings, Jefferson, Ripley, Dearborn, Ohio, and Switzerland counties, Indiana / L.C. Ward. In Indiana Dept. of Geology and Natural Resources thirty-second annual report, 1907. Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1908. Page 234. Imprint: [Indianapolis] : [Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources], [1908] Dimensions: on sheet 21 x 24 cm

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