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  1. Title: Map of Guatemala to illustrate Mr. A. P. Maudslay's paper

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    Summary: Includes ancillary plans: I. Rough plan of the ruins near Quirigua [scale ca. 1:5,910] -- II. Plan of the ruins of Tikal [scale ca. 1:3,840] -- III. Plan of ruined town on Usumacinta River [scale 1:3,450] -- IV. Plan of temple F, Tikal -- V. Plan of house A, Usumacinta -- VI. Plan of house D, Usumacinta -- VII. Plan of house E, Usumacinta [scales 1:480]. Letter labels in plans I-III correspond to plans IV-VII and to Maudslay's descriptions. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. International boundary and department boundaries are shown. Maudslay's routes shown in red. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 5 (1885), no. 4, pp. 185-204; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  2. Title: Hóhenschichten-Karte Ost- und Westpreussens : Königsberg

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    Summary: Relief shown by gradient tints, form lines, and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric tints, soundings, and isolines.; "Jn Commission bei Wilh. Koch & Reimer in Ko?nigsberg i/Pr." 35 x 43 centimeters Scale 1:300,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Höhenschichten-Karte Ost- und Westpreussens : section Bromberg-Marienwerde

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    Summary: Relief shown by gradient tints, form lines, and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric soundings. 35 x 43 centimeters Scale 1:300,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Hóhenschichten-Karte Ost- und Westpreussens : Danzig

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    Summary: Relief shown by gradient tints, form lines, and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric tints, soundings, and isolines.; "Jn Commission bei Wilh. Koch & Reimer in Ko?nigsberg i/Pr." 35 x 43 centimeters Scale 1:300,000 General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Archaeological Map, Carthage, Tunisia, ca. 1895 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte archeologique et topographique des ruines de Carthage : dressee d'apres les releves de M. l'adjoint du genie Bordy, avec le concours de MM. le R. P. Delattre, ... le general Dolot,... P. Gauckler. It was published by Service geographique de l'armee, ca. 1895. Scale 1:5,000. Covers Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 32N, meters, WGS 1984) projected 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 towns, villages, roads, railroads and stations, selected buildings and built-up areas, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Overprinted to show archaeological sites.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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  6. 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

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    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

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  7. Title: Superior National Forest, Minnesota, fourth principal meridian, 1920

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:250,000. Below title: The playground of a nation. "Henry S. Graves, forester." "Minnesota Game and Fish Department, Carlos Avery, Commissioner, St. Paul, Minn." "Before taking trips outlined obtain information from the secretary of the Ely CommercialClub or the U.S. Forest Service, Ely Minn." Relief shown by hachures. Shows canoe routes starting and ending at Ely and outline of Superior State Game Refuge. 42 x 82 centimeters 1:250,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  8. Title: Dernières explorations en Asie et dans les régions polaires 1880; dessinée par J. Hansen.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Names of explorers are in red. Shows the routes of explorers in the Arctic region and Asia. 1 map: col.; 26 x 26 cm.

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  9. Title: Carte speciale des chemins de fer des routes et des voies navigables de la France d'apres les meilleurs documents; publie par E. Andriveau-Goujon.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes inset maps of Paris and Corsica. "Les chemins de fer par Alfred Potiquet". 1 map: mounted in folder; 30 x 35 in.

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  10. Title: Plan von Dresden; bearbeitet vom Stadtvermessungsamte.

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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. 1 map: 30 x 28 cm.

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  11. Title: Johnston's plan of Edinburgh & Leith in 1851

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:4,873 ; approximately 13 in. to a mile. Manuscript additions showing boundaries, and property belonging to Heriot's Hospital. 1 map : color ; 124 x 160 cm. Scale 1:4,873 ; approximately 13 inch to a miles General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Carte de la Finlande, 1808 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de la Finlande. It was published by: no publisher in 1808. Scale approximately 1:2,450,000. 12 myriamètres [= 4.9 cm]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the EUREF FIN TM35FIN (EPSG: 3067) 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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  13. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 1

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of northeastern Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 15 miles.

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  14. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 5

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of the Granite Falls area, Minnesota, showing locations of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 1/4 mile.

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  15. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 4

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    Summary: Map of western part of the Lake Superior region, Minnesota, showing location of samples that were age-dated by radioactive isotope methods, scale 1 inch = about 40 miles.

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  16. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 2

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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of east-central Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 10 miles.

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  17. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 3

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    Summary: Map of the Minnesota-Ontario border region, showing location of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 20 miles.

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  18. Title: Alaska

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    Summary: In lower margin of each map: "Copyright, 1925, by the American Geographical Society of New York, the Geographical Review, Vol XV, No. 1, 1925, Plate 1." 21 x 26 centimeters, on sheet 25 x 85 centimeters Scale 1:10,000,000 General Map Collection

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  19. Title: Geological map of Isle Royale, Lake Superior, Michigan

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    Summary: Contours added by Alfred C. Lane, 1908.; Oriented with north toward the upper right.; From: Michigan. Geological Survey. Annual report, 1909. Plate 1. 22 x 91 centimeters Scale approximately 1:100,000 General Map Collection

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  20. Title: Lower Peninsula

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    Summary: Shows geology and railroads.; Base map: Rand McNally and Company. Rand, McNally & Co.'s new business atlas map of Michigan. c1889.; Appears in: Lane, Alfred Church. The geology of Lower Michigan with reference to borings. 66 x 47 centimeters Scale approximately 1:780,000 General Map Collection

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