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  1. Title: The original vegetation of Minnesota [map]

    • Not specified
    • 1974
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:500,000. Text on verso: Interpretation of Francis J. Marschner's Map of the original vegetation of Minnesota [by] Miron L. Heinselman.

  2. Title: Chart of the Antarctic Ocean : between--latitudes 66° S. and 83° S. and--longitudes 150° E. and 150° W showing the land to the south of 74° S.

    • Not specified
    • 1905
    Contributors:

    Summary: Inset: track of the discovery.; Relief shown by hachures, spot heights; depth by soundings.; Shows dates and routes taken from Port Lyttelton, New Zealand to King Edward VII Land via Victoria Land on the ship of "Discovery." 38 x 50 centimeters

  3. Title: Baltic States, ca. 1676 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2019
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new mapp of the estates of the Crown of Poland : containing the Kingdom of Poland, the dutchies & provinces of Prussia, Cuiavia, Mazovia, Russia Nigra, Lithuania, Podolia, Volhinia, The Ukraine &c. It was published by: Sold by Robert Morden at the Atlas in Cornhill ca. 1676. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000. Map in English. 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.

  4. Title: Public squares, parks, and places in the City of New York August 1838

    • Image data
    • 1838
    Contributors:

    Summary: "For D.T. Valentine's Manual."

  5. Title: A map of the country which was the scene of operations of the Northern Army : including the wilderness through which General Arnold marched to attack Quebec

    • Image data
    • 1807
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Plate VI. Engraved for the Life of Washington. From : Atlas to accompany John Marshall's The life of George Washington. Philadelphia, 1804-07. (plate VI). Historic Maps copy imperfect: lower edge trimmed, with loss of imprint.

  6. Title: Physical and regional map of North America

    • Not specified
    • 1925
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and gradient tints.; List in margin names and number-codes regions to map.; "Map to accompany ʻNorth America ̓by J. Russell Smith."; Insets: --Iceland.--Porto Rico and Lesser Antilles, same scale as main map. 59 x 46 Centimeters

  7. Title: Generalized soil map of Florida

    • Not specified
    • 1925
    Contributors:

    Summary: Avec priv. du Roy.; Includes index to streets, buildings, etc. 74 x 77 centimeters, on sheet 82 x 85 centimeters

  8. Title: Metsker's guide map of Tacoma : the lumber capital of America

    • Not specified
    • 1923
    Contributors:

    Summary: Copyright 1923 by Chas. F. Metsker.; Includes street index on verso. 67 x 47 centimeters

  9. Title: Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia, 1855 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: St. Lawrence Bay showing Lutke's Harbor, by the U.S. Ship Vincennes, Lieutenant John Rodgers ; produced by E.R. Knorr, draughtsman ; sketches by Wm. Brenton Boggs, purser U.S.N. ; engr. by Selmar Siebert ; reduced for engraving by Louis Waldecker. It was published by U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:200,000]. Covers Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 drainage, human settlements, shoreline features, bays, harbors, inlets, points, shoals, anchorage points and bottom types, and more. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes note on Lutke's Harbor and 2 inset profile views. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  10. Title: Northern Arabia

    • Image data
    • 1922
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures, spot heights, and contours. Depth shown by soundings. Routes of expedition shown in red. From: Geographical Journal. Vol. 59, no. 5 (May 1922), pp. 321-334; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6874

  11. Title: Preliminary map to illustrate the route of the Mount Everest Expedition, 1921 : reduced from the original map on the scale 1/253440 by Major Morshead and assistants of the Survey of India accompanying the expedition: the neighbourhood of the mountain from map II

    • Image data
    • 1922
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights. Locations of mountain peaks are shown. Route of the expedition shown in red. Also includes mountain passes, glaciers, drainage, settlements, and boundary of Sikkim. From: Geographical Journal. Vol. 59, no. 2 (Feb. 1922), pp. 81-112, 131-137; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6874

  12. Title: Der Sepik (Kaiserin Augusta-Flusz) und sein Stromgebiet, aufgenommen während der Kaiserin Augusta-Fluss-Expedition 1912-1913 in Deutsch-Neuguinea in 3 Blättern

    • Not specified
    • 1914
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by contours and spot heights.; Includes text.; Inset: [Stephan-Strasse].; "Herausgegeben mit Unterstützung der Henry Lange-Stiftung der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin"--Below title. sheets 99 x 67 Centimeters

  13. Title: Handbook Map of Constantinople.

    • Not specified
    • 1875
    Contributors:

    Summary: [A photostat from] Handbook for Travelers in Turkey in Asia. Rev. London, 1875. [positive photostat] 1 map; 39 x 44 cm.

  14. Title: Fort Wagner, Morris Island, South Carolina,1863 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper manuscript map: Battery Wagner, Morris Isld., Francis D. Lee, Capt. Engrs. ; Langdon Cheves, Asst. Engr. in charge of work ; drawn by F.W. Bornemann, C.S. Engr. Office. It was drawn Nov 26, 1863. Scale [1:480]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South Carolina State Plane Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 3900). 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 Fort dimensions and structures, landscape of area surrounding Fort, drainage, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  15. Title: Map of the United States: exhibiting the post-roads, the situations, connexions & distances of the post-offices, state roads, counties, & principal rivers; by Abraham Bradley junr.

    • Not specified
    • 1812
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. On northwest sheet: "This sheet engraved by Francis Shallus, Philadelphia." Inset: Map of North America. 1 map on 4 sheets; 97 x 132 cm., sheets 55 x 74 cm.

  16. Title: Chicago, Illinois, surficial geology, 1936 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, paper map entitled: Surficial geology of the Chicago Loop quadrangle, by J. Harlen Bretz. It was published by State Geological Survey Division ca. 1936. Scale 1:24,000. Topographic base surveyed in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, 1926; 1936. Geologically surveyed 1930-1932. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Illinois East State Plane Coordinate System NAD27 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1201). 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 typical topographic map colored to show surficial geology. It portrays both natural and manmade features. It shows and names works of nature, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, vegetation, etc. It also identify the principal works of humans, such as roads, railroads, boundaries, transmission lines, major buildings, etc. Relief is shown with standard contour intervals of 5 feet. Includes legend and map 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.

  17. Title: Map showing the Fergus Falls "Park Region" : embracing also the whole of Otter Tail County, Minn. and Wilkin and portions of Dou

    • Not specified
    • 1880
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:255,000. Relief shown by hachures. Scale provided from another source. Map does not indicate scale. "Geo. B. Wright, Lots and Lands, Minneapolis ... Chas. J. Wright, land agent, Fergus Falls, Minn.""Fergus Falls Park region, northern Minnesota rr as marked in red by Maj Henning, ... 9/81"-Verso. 41 x 52 centimeters

  18. Title: Map of Hennepin County, Minnesota

    • Not specified
    • 1874
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings.; Cadastral map showing landowners.; "Published by Geo. B. Wright & G. Jay Rice."; Includes illus. of buildings and advertisements in borders, indexed inset of Minneapolis, and 8 insets. 150 x 141 centimeters on 4 sheets 105 x 93 centimeters

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