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  1. Title: Nuremberg Region, Germany, 1909 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan von Nurnberg 1909, Bearbeitet im stadtischen Bauamt. It was published by Verlag des Stadtmagistrats Nurnberg in 1909. Scale 1:12,500. Covers Nuremberg and vicinity, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 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 roads, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, parks, ground cover, 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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  2. Title: Basin District, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1933 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Cincinnati basin district : proposed redevelopment plan, City Planning Commission; Ernest Clarke architect. It was published by the City Planning Commission in 1933. Scale 1:200. Covers area bounded by Colerain Ave. to Vine St., Central Ave. to W 5th St. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Ohio South State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 3402). 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, drainage, existing and proposed buildings (schools, churches, dwellings, businesses, and industrial areas), parks, ground cover, 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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  3. Title: Map of properties belonging to J. & W.B. Vandeventer at Princeton

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    Summary: "Alterations in parenthesis and a large part of the dotted lines made I 1901." Reproduction of ms. map, showing area between Nassau, Witherspoon, Wiggins, and Vandeventer streets, Princeton, N.J. in 1892; revised 1901.

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  4. Title: Map of the Morven property, Princeton, N.J., 1900

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    Summary: "The division of the part of the property north of Hodge Avenue into lots was made in the spring 1849--E. Sandoz." Reproduction of ms. map, showing area between Library Place, Hodge Avenue, Bayard Avenue, Morven Place, and Stockton Street, Princeton, N.J. in 1890; revised 1900.

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  5. Title: Map of the Morven property, Princeton, N.J., 1890

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    Summary: "Contents. Morven property Dec. 1890. Acres 212.89. Parcels of land sold at different periods ... 8.74 acres." Reproduction of ms. map, showing area between Library Place, Hodge Avenue, Bayard Avenue, Morven Place, and Stockton Street, Princeton, N.J. in 1890.

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  6. Title: Physical map of the Crimea, with enlarged maps of the seat of war, and views of Sebastopol & Balaklava, from the best authorities

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Includes views of "Sebastopol from the middle of Sebastopol Bay," "Town & harbor of Balaklava from the north," and "South coast, from Cape Feolente," and 2 coastal profiles. "This map is highly approved by professors Guyot & Agassiz of Cambridge, in their letters."

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  7. Title: Map of the Pleistocene deposits of northwestern Iowa, 1917

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    Summary: 1 map

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  8. Title: Indiana in 1836

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    Summary: Negative photostat. Shows roads, railroads, canals, counties and cities. Scale not given. E.V. Shockley.

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  9. Title: Map of Elizabeth Town, N.J. at the time of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 Showing that part of the free borough and town of Elizabeth, which is now the site of the city of Elizabeth

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    Summary: Cadastral map showing land ownership. Shows "The fortifications and positions of the British forces from June 8th to June 23d, 1780 ..." Includes index to "Names of owners referred to by number" and "References and historical notes."

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  10. Title: Map of Boston and the country adjacent : showing rural parks

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    Summary: Shows railroads, roads, buildings, and radial distances from State House.; Relief shown by hachures. 44 x 64 centimeters Scale approximately 1:63,360 City Maps

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  11. Title: The General Plan (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a plan for Fisherman's Wharf comprising the Fisherman's Wharf-Aquatic Park area. This drawing was originally prepared for the San Francisco Port Authority by John S. Bolles and Ernest Born. (1961). 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. Bolles, J. and Born, E. (2018). The General Plan (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rs107gm7618 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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  12. Title: United States, Pictorial Map, 1941 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: America the wonderland : a pictorial map of the United States, designed and drawn by Ernest Dudley Chase. It was published by E.D. Chase in 1941. Scale [ca. 1:6,400,000]. 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 is a pictorial map showings features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, points of interest and landmarks shown pictorially, territorial and state boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes illustrations.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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  13. Title: Mercator map of the world united : a pictorial history of transport and communications and paths to permanent peace

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; 39 x 92 cm World maps

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  14. Title: World wonders : a pictorial map

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map; 42 x 60 cm, on sheet 52 x 68 cm World maps

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  15. Title: Map of the explorations from Beltana Station (South Australia) to the city of Perth (Western Australia) by Ernest Giles 1875

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Routes of Giles's and Tietkens and Young's expeditions are shown. Dates of main expedition from Beltana to Perth are shown. Salt lakes and Great Victorian Desert are shown. Includes information on groundwater, vegetation, and soil quality. Coastline of Great Australian Bight shown north of 33° S. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 46 (1876), pp. 328-57; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 46 1876

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  16. Title: Algeria, 1846 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de l'Algerie : divisee par tribus, par mm. E. Carette et Augte. Warnier, membres de la Commission Scientifique de l'Algerie. It was published by Institut geographique national in 1846. Scale 1:1,000,000. Covers northern part of Algeria and portions of Tunisia and Morocco. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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 other human settlements, roads adn routes, administrative and territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes notes on native populations and inset of Mediterranean Sea region. 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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  17. Title: Zaliv Lavrentiya, Russia, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    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.

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  18. Title: Central Africa showing expedition route of Verney Lovett Cameron, 1876 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of a portion of South Africa : illustrative of Lieut. Cameron's route from lake Tangayika to the west coast, by E. G. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. It was published by Geogr. Mag. in 1876. Scale 1:5,000,000. Covers portions of Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'World Sinusoidal' projection with the central meridian at 20 degrees east. 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 expedition routes, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by shading. 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.

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  19. Title: Pogge and Wissmann's route from the Kasai to Nyangwe, 1881-2 from Lieut. Wissmann's original sketches

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    Summary: Boundaries of kingdoms and chiefs' territories are shown. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Pogge and Wissmann's route shown in red. Route of Verney Lovett Cameron in 1874 is shown. Includes inset map of Lake Munkamba [scale 1:400,000]. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 5 (1885), no. 3, pp. 163-5; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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  20. Title: Native routes to the Masai country and to the Victoria Nyanza from information obtained by the Venble. J. P. Farler

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    Summary: Figures along the routes indicate the distance (in hours) from camp to camp. Includes inset map: New native routes collected by the venble. J. P. Farler and the Rev. Thos. Wakefield and adjusted to the R. Geogr. Society's map of Eastern Equatorial Africa [scale 1:12,000,000]. Shows routes learned by Farler with broken lines and routes learned by Wakefield with solid lines. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 4 (1882), no. 12, pp. 730-53; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

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