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  1. Title: Northern Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1865 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of that part of the city of New York north of 155 street. It was published by Major & Knapp Eng. Mfg. & Lith. Co. in December 1865. Scale [ca. 1:6,375]. 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 and streets laid out by the Commissioners of the Central Park, drainage, bridges, selected buildings, and more. 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: Superior State Game Preserve, Minnesota : established 1913.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:594,000 (W 92°30'--W 90°30'/N 48°25'--N 47°30'). Text at bottom by Minnesota Game and Fish Commission. 28 x 31 centimeters 1:594,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  3. Title: Map of Iowa

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    Summary: Shows railroad lines and Y connections. Verso includes index of all incorporated cities and towns with populations according to the 1910 U.S. Census. 77 x 110 centimeters Scale [1:506,880] 8 miles to 1 inch General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Carte Regionale de la Province de Quebec, comprenent les comtes de Rimouski, Bonaventure et Gaspe

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    Summary: 1 map on 2 sheets ; 88 x 79 cm

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  5. Title: Sights to see and things to do in Florida

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    Summary: 46 x 46 Centimeters, folded to 25 x 16 Centimeters Scale not given. General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Minnetonka Game Refuge

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not determined. 49 x 54 centimeters General Minnesota Maps

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  7. Title: Burlington, Vermont, 1853 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Burlington, Vermont, 1853, lith. of Sarony & Major, NY. It was published by Presdee & Edwards in 1853. Scale [ca.1:1,287]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Vermont State Plane Coordinate System (Meters) (FIPS 4400). 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, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, parks, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, wharves, etc.), selected private buildings and property lots with names of property owners, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations and a list of 'subscribers.'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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  8. Title: Woodstock, Vermont, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont. It was published by Presdee & Edwards, civil engineers and publishers in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:2,800]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Vermont State Plane Coordinate System (Meters) (FIPS 4400). 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, railroads, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, parks, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), selected private buildings and property lots with names of property owners, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also illustrations and a list of 'subscribers.'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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  9. Title: Ground plan of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition : St. Louis, Mo. 1904.

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    Summary: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)--Maps.

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  10. Title: Map of The City Of San Francisco, California. Copied From Originals with Corrections and Additions. 1850. View of San Francisco in 1849. The Large Vessel At The Wharf is The "Apollo Store Ship. (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of one of the earliest maps of San Francisco, published just after the Eddy map of 1849. Not listed in Wheat, Peters, Heckrotte (unpublished list), auction records, or other authorities. Perhaps a unique survivor. Shows all streets, Agnew's Steamboat Landing, Central Wharf, and the Apollo Store Ship. Scale given in Mexican Varas. With an inset view of the city in 1849. Elevations of the hills and coastal cliffs are show with hachures. Harry J. Peters says of the Apollo Store Ship: It "was sent around the Horn from New York in 1849 to San Francisco. There it was beached & converted to a store & warehouse. This was often the fate of many ships in those days when whole crews would often desert ship & rush to the gold fields. It was also profitable to the owners to beach a vessel & turn it to just such uses as the Apollo, for San Francisco was largely a city of tents with few buildings either for homes or storage for the thousands of newcomers." The map was published by the Sun Lithographic Establishment, located next to the offices of the Sun newspaper in New York and probably affiliated with the newspaper. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. Perkins Sun Lithographic Establishment. (2021). Map of The City Of San Francisco, California. Copied From Originals with Corrections and Additions. 1850. View of San Francisco in 1849. The Large Vessel At The Wharf is The "Apollo Store Ship. (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/pn124cp0101 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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  11. Title: Westinghouse map of the Paris exposition 1900

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    Summary: Inset: Exposition universelle 1900 : Annexe de Vincennes. Includes list of Westinghouse installations in Paris.

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  12. Title: North America: with its water courses and inland navigation.; Grand canal celebration

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    Summary: Shows rivers, country borders, major cities. Alaska shown as Russian Territory. At lower left: "lithography of Imbert & Co." Possibly from Cadwallader Colden's "Memoir, prepared at the request of a committee of the Common council of the city of New York and presented to the mayor of the city, at the celebration of the completion of the New York canals", published in 1825. Tropic of Cancer is marked in lower left corner. 1 map; 19 x 24 cm.

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  13. Title: To Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, and the allied armies of France and England, this military topographical map of the Krima Peninsula : constructed and founded on the most recent astronomical observations, verified and completed from authentic military surveys of the staff of His Imperial Majesty's Quarter Master General's Department

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Title in English and Russian. Text, legend, and place-names in English. Statement in upper margin in English and 2 languages in Arabic alphabet.; "Entered at Stationers Hall, London, Saturday 20th May, 1854."; "Corr. to 1855 from general Schubert's official map."; Originally printed on 10 sheets.; Includes text, notes, population table, and hand col. inset of geology of Crimea and adjacent regions. 120 x 223 centimeters, sheets 95 x 132 centimeters. or smaller Scale [1:168,000]; 4 versts; 4666 2/3 English yards to an English inch General Map Collection

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  14. Title: Amérique Septentrionale publiée sous les auspices de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans prémier prince du sang; par Sr. D'Anville.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: [Ferro]. This map is particulary distinctive for its portrayal of the Mississippi River valley and the river systems between the St. Lawrence and James Bay. Includes inset of Hudon and Baffin Bay. Decorative cartouche depicts a Native American woman holding a quiver of arrows with two cherubs by her feet and native animals. 1 map on 2 sheets: hand col.; 88 x 84 cm. (in case 93 x 93 cm.)

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  15. Title: Denver, Colorado, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Guide map to the city of Denver, Colorado, engraved by the Mills Engraving Co. It was published by W.H. Lawrence & Co. in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:24,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the HARN State Plane Colorado Central Zone NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 0502). 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, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, selected names of landowners, parks, cemeteries, 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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  16. Title: Green Bay, Wisconsin, map of wards and districts]

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    Summary: Scale not given. Relief shown by hachures. Wards shown in blue; districts show in red. Supplied title. 50 x 43 centimeters Scale not given. City Maps

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  17. Title: Metz

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Prime meridian: Paris.; Upper right margin: 36. 51 x 81 centimeters Scale [1:80,000] General Map Collection

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  18. Title: Commercy

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Prime meridian: Paris.; Red overprinting: "Office of Chief of Engineers."; Red overprinting shows railroads, sawmills, highways, water supply systems and dumps.; Upper right margin: 52. 51 x 81 centimeters Scale [1:80,000] General Map Collection

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  19. Title: Commercy

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Prime meridian: Paris.; Upper right margin: 52. 51 x 81 centimeters Scale [1:80,000] General Map Collection

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  20. Title: Nancy

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Prime meridian: Paris.; Upper right margin: 69. 51 x 81 centimeters Scale [1:80,000] General Map Collection

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