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  1. Title: Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of a continental map of Africa from 1881. This map shows the expedition routes of Stanley and Livingstone and contains an inset depicting the Island of St. Helena (place where Napoleon was buried). This map was georeferenced using a Sinusoidal 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. The RMS error for this map is 1539.89 meters. This value describes how consistent the transformation is between the different control points (links). The RMS error is only an assessment of the accuracy of the transformation. Mitchell, S. Augustus, Wellington, Williams, and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013) Map of Africa Showing its most Recent Discoveries (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/px984sn6906. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. 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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  2. Title: North America, 1856 (Image 2 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States : with the north American British provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, together with Cuba and other West India Islands, engraved by W. Williams, map engraver, Philadelphia. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell in 1856. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. This layer is image 2 of 4 total images, representing the southeast portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables and inset maps: Map of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Capt.n Cook in 1778 -- Map of the world on the Mercator projection exhibiting the American continent as its centre -- Map of the world on the Globular projection exhibiting the eastern and western Hemispheres.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of North America 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: North America, 1856 (Image 3 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States : with the north American British provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, together with Cuba and other West India Islands, engraved by W. Williams, map engraver, Philadelphia. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell in 1856. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. This layer is image 3 of 4 total images, representing the southwest portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables and inset maps: Map of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Capt.n Cook in 1778 -- Map of the world on the Mercator projection exhibiting the American continent as its centre -- Map of the world on the Globular projection exhibiting the eastern and western Hemispheres.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of North America 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: North America, 1856 (Image 4 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States : with the north American British provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, together with Cuba and other West India Islands, engraved by W. Williams, map engraver, Philadelphia. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell in 1856. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. This layer is image 4 of 4 total images, representing the northwest portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables and inset maps: Map of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Capt.n Cook in 1778 -- Map of the world on the Mercator projection exhibiting the American continent as its centre -- Map of the world on the Globular projection exhibiting the eastern and western Hemispheres.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of North America 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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  5. Title: North America, 1856 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mitchell's new national map exhibiting the United States : with the north American British provinces, Sandwich Islands, Mexico and Central America, together with Cuba and other West India Islands, engraved by W. Williams, map engraver, Philadelphia. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell in 1856. Scale [ca. 1:2,500,000]. This layer is image 1 of 4 total images, representing the northeast portion of the four sheet source map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North America Lambert Conformal Conic 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, cities and other human settlements, roads, railroads, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes tables and inset maps: Map of the Sandwich Islands discovered by Capt.n Cook in 1778 -- Map of the world on the Mercator projection exhibiting the American continent as its centre -- Map of the world on the Globular projection exhibiting the eastern and western Hemispheres.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of North America 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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1874 (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 Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in 1874. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, wharves, ferry routes, 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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  7. Title: Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, 1845 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont : compiled from the latest authorities, [by] J.H. Young, sc. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell in 1845. Scale [ca. 1:1,001,000]. Covers also portions of New York, Massachusetts, and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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, canals, drainage, state, county, and town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset: North part of Maine. Scale [ca. 1:2,505,000]. 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 purposes.

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  8. Title: Plan of the city of Detroit.

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    Summary: Shows ward boundaries. Shows railroads and public buildings. Oriented with north to the upper right. Plate 80 from Mitchell's New General Atlas. On verso: plate 79, map of Michigan, (western part of Upper Peninsula not shown). 1 map: col.; 29 x 36 cm.

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  9. Title: Africa

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    Summary: Insets: Island of St. Helena -- Lower Egypt or the delta of the Nile. Relief shown by hachures. In top margin: 27. From: Mitchell's new general atlas. Philadelphia : Wm. M. Bradley & Bros., 1884.

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  10. Title: County map of the state of California

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington and Greenwich. Plates 96-97 from Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., embraced in ninety-three quarto maps. Inset maps: San Francisco, San Francisco Bay and vicinity. Shows roads, railroads, county divisions, San Francisco city wards. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1882 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." 1 map: col.; 34 x 55 cm.

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  11. Title: County map of the State of New Jersey.

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:760,000; 1 map: color; 38 x 29 cm New Jersey--Maps

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  12. Title: County map of the state of California

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Washington and Greenwich. Plates 96-97 from Mitchell's new general atlas, containing maps of the various countries of the World, plans of cities, etc., embraced in ninety-three quarto maps. Inset maps: San Francisco, San Francisco Bay and vicinity. Shows roads, railroads, county divisions, San Francisco city wards. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1881 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." 1 map: col.; 34 x 55 cm.

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  13. Title: County and township map of Arizona and New Mexico; S. Augustus Mitchell.; Arizona and New Mexico

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Entered according to an Act of Congress in the year 1881 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Plate 92 from Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps. 1 map: col.; 35 x 55 cm.

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  14. Title: County and township map of Utah and Nevada; S. Augustus Mitchell.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. At lower left: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1881 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Plate 91 possibly from Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps. Shows county borders. 1 map: col.; 36 x 55 cm.

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  15. Title: Plan of Detroit

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    Summary: Surrounded by ornamental border. Plate 80 of Mitchell's New General Atlas. On verso: Map of Michigan (western part of Upper Peninsula not shown). 1 map: col.; 22 x 32 cm

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  16. Title: County and township map of Utah and Nevada; S. Augustus Mitchell.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. At lower right: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1881 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Plate 91 from Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc., Embraced In Ninety-Three Quarto Maps. Shows county borders. Includes inset of southern portion of Nevada. 1 map: col.; 36 x 55 cm.

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  17. Title: County & township map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1882

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    Summary: 1 color map 55 x 37 cm Scale [ca. 1:1,700,000] W 97°--W 89°/N 44°--N 36°

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  18. Title: County & township map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1884

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    Summary: 1 color map Scale [ca. 1:1,700,000] W 97°--W 89°/N 44°--N 36°

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  19. Title: Map of Hindoostan, Farther India, China, and Tibet

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:17,600,000 (E 66°--E 124°/N 42°--S 1°). Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington."Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Likely removed from: Mitchell's new general atlas / S. Augustus Mitchell. 27 x 31 centimeters Scale approximately 1:17,600,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  20. Title: County & township map of the state of Illinois.

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    Summary: Vicinity of Springfield.;Washington.;1 map, colored;52 x 34 cm.;ca. 1:1,250,000;Mitchell, S. Augustus. Mitchell's new general atlas. -- Philadelphia, 1878. -- No. 70-71.

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