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  1. Title: Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography.

    • Not specified
    • 1841
    Contributors:

    Summary: Washington.;1 map, hand colored;26 x 43 cm.;ca. 1:3,000,000

  2. Title: Map of the southern states to illustrate Olney's school geography

    • Image data
    • 1841
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Washington meridian. Probably issued in: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  3. Title: Map of Africa to illustrate Olney's school geography

    • Image data
    • 1841
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress Nov. 20th 1829 by D.F. Robinson & Co. of the State of Connecticut." Map shows "The Belle Poule bound to France with the remains of Napoleon, Oct. 19, 1840." Probably issued in: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  4. Title: Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography

    • Image data
    • 1841
    Contributors:

    Summary: Longitude "West from Washington." From: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  5. Title: Physiographic diagram

    • Physical maps ; Geological maps
    • 1970
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by landform drawing. Shows southern limit of glaciation in Indiana. Originally compiled approximately 1932 by J.E. Switzer, Department of Geology and Geography, Indiana University. Detached from: An atlas of Indiana / by Robert C. Kingsbury , with contributions from John M. Hollingsworth and others. Bloomington, Indiana : Department of Geography, Indiana University, [1970]. Page 15. Imprint: Bloomington, Indiana : Department of Geography, Indiana University, [1970] Dimensions: 26 x 18 cm, on sheet 28 x 21 cm; Scale: Approximately 1:1,850,000 Coordinates: W0880700 W0844500 N0414500 N0374600

  6. Title: Surface features of the natural regions of Indiana

    • Physical maps
    • 1932
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by landform drawings. Pen-and-ink. Drawn at Indiana University. "Indiana Supplement." For date of drawing, see Kingsbury, Robert C., Atlas of Indiana, 1970, p. 88. Imprint: [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1932?] Dimensions: 90 x 57 cm; Scale: 1:500,000 Coordinates: W0880700 W0844500 N0414500 N0375200

  7. Title: Physiographic diagram of Indiana

    • Physical maps
    • 1932
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by landform drawing. For imprint date, see Kingsbury, Robert C. Atlas of Indiana, p. 88. Reprint: date unknown. Imprint: [Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University, 1932?] Scale: 1:850,000; Dimensions: 55 x 35 cm, on sheet 64 x 49 cm Coordinates: W0880700 W0844500 N0414500 N0375200

  8. Title: Map of Morris County, New Jersey, from original surveys

    • Image data
    • 1853
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Includes names of property owners and views of buildings. Inset: Plan of Dover / surveyed & drawn by S. Geil. Wall map. Historic Maps copy 1 removed from original wooden roller. Historic Maps copy 2 has original wooden roller.

  9. Title: Map of the state of Michigan and the surrounding country, exhibiting the sections and the latest surveys

    • Not specified
    • 1855
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Michigan showing surveyed counties, cities and towns, townships and township names, and sections. Shows distances in miles between various points on Lake Michigan. Shows county seats, Indian villages, railroads, mills, prairies, swamps and marshes, canals, and roads. Plank roads and "most important roads" are indicated. Notes: Town of "Rio Grand" is shown north of Lansing, in Lansing Township, Ingham County. Town of "Hamilton" is shown in vicinity of present-day Okemos. A stream named Alcotte Creek is shown in the vicinity of Lansing. Present-day Williamstown Township in Ingham County is named "Phelps Town" or "Phelpstown" Township. Shows "proposed route of Clinton and Kalamazoo Canal." "Grand river road" is labeled in Ingham County. Prime meridian: Greenwich. Includes notes about shoreline conditions (rockiness, steepness, etc.) and 1 inset: Plat of the copper district on L. Superior / engraved by J. Farmer.

  10. Title: Map of the surveyed part of Michigan

    • Not specified
    • 1840
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Insets: Northern part of Michigan -- Map of the Straits of Mackinaw.

  11. Title: An improved edition of a map of the surveyed parts of the Territory of Michigan

    • Not specified
    • 1836
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes grid. Covers southern Michigan. Insets: Map of the Straits of Michillimackinac. -- Map of Pte. Ste. Ignace. -- Map of the most important parts of the lead mine district near the Mississippi River. -- Map of the private claims at Green Bay -- Map of Michillimackinac.

  12. Title: A map of Canada compiled from the latest authorities

    • Not specified
    • 1848
    Contributors:

    Summary: Inset maps: Island of Montreal -- Quebec and its environs with the operations of the siege of 1759 under Wolfe -- Vicinity of the falls of Niagara -- Kingston and its environs -- Toronto and its environs.; Detailed map of both provinces of Canada with insets showing principal citiies.; Engraved by: W. & A.K. Johnston, geographers & engravers to the queen, Edinr.; Sectioned and pasted on linen and folded into untitled, black publisher's boards. 50 x 95.3 centimeters

  13. Title: Tanner's Creek section

    • Cartographic materials
    • 1913
    Contributors:

    Summary: Sections on one sheet. Title from caption. Diagram showing stratagraphic measurements for bilateria fossils in the Tanner's Creek Formation from the Cincinnatian series of the upper Ordovician period. Exact coordinates represented indeterminable. Coordinates provided for state of Indiana. Detached from: The stratigraphy and paleontology of the Tanner's Creek section of the Cincinnati series of Indiana / by E. R. Cumings and J. J. Galloway. In Thirty-seventh annual report of Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana ... 1912. Indianapolis : Wm. B. Burford, 1913. Page 372. Imprint: [Indianapolis] : [Department of Geology and Natural Resources], [1913]; Imprint: [Indianapolis] : [Wm. B. Burford, contractor for state printing and binding], [1913] Dimensions: 38 x 41 cm

  14. Title: Battlefield of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia and vicinity, 1864 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map: Map of the battle field of Spottsylvania C.H. : showing the field of operations of the Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade U.S.A., from May 8th to 21st, 1865 [i.e. 1864], surveyed under the orders of Bvt. Col. J.C. Duane, Major of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac, by Bvt. Maj. C.W. Howell, 1st Lieut. of Engineers ; assisted by Messrs. L.C. Oswell, L. Bell, and R.B. Talfor ; J. Bien, lithographer, New York. It was published ca. 1865. Scale [1:15,840]. Covers area surrounding Spotsylvania and Spotsylvania Battlefield, Virginia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Virginia State Plane North Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 4501). 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, drainage, dwellings with names of inhabitants, vegetation, Union and Confederate troop lines and defenses, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes note. 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: Plan af Helsingfors

    • Not specified
    • 1977
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,500. Facsimile. Relief shown by hachures. Cadastral map. Includes indexes and inset of Helsinki region. 1 map : color ; 39 x 53 centimeters

  16. Title: Map of Syria in the IV-V-VI centuries

    • Not specified
    • 1920
    Contributors:

    Summary: From The Geographical Review, volume IX, no. 2, 1920, PL. I. 44 x 31 Centimeters

  17. Title: Map of British Columbia reduced from the original map

    • Image data
    • 1868
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Forest and soil resources shown by text and shading. Wagon roads, trails and explored routes shown in British Columbia. Sketch map shows a proposed land & water communication, proposed & completed railways, fertile belt and arid country. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 38, (1868), pp. 118-28; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.38 1868 At lower right corner of map of Canada: Edwd. Weller.

  18. Title: Map of the proposed northern route for a railroad to the Pacific

    • Not specified
    • 1854
    Contributors:

    Summary: Negative photostat from unknown source.; Engraved by: E.C. Kellogg & Co., Hartford, Conn.; Shows a variety of proposed routes for a railroad to the Pacific.; Copyright by Johnson in 1853. 51 x 80 centimeters, on sheet 58 x 91 centimeters

  19. Title: Map of India from the most recent authorities

    • Not specified
    • 1845
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:4,138,313. 98 x 85 centimeters

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