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  1. Title: Map of the boundary between Massachusetts & New York: showing the ancient colonial and provincial grants and settlements; by Franklin Leonard Pope, member of the Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society.

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    Summary: Extends west to Schenectady and the Hudson River, covering Columbia County and most of Rensselaer County. Extend east to cover most of Berkshire County. Shows the Commissioners boundary, 1787. Relief shown by hachures. Publisher from front cover. Probably also published to accompany: The western boundary of Massachusetts: a study of Indian and colonial history / by Franklin Leonard Pope. Pittsfield, Mass.: Privately printed, 1886. 1 map; 37 x 28 cm., folded in cover 22 x 14 cm.

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  2. Title: Map of the territory of Minnesota exhibiting the route of the expedition to the Red River of the north, in the summer of 1849

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    Summary: Map may have been published in 1850, according to an early cataloger’s note. 28 x 25 inches General Minnesota Maps

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  3. Title: Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Mare Mediterraneum, exhibens oras Hispaniæ, Galliæ, Italiæ, mare Hadriaticum, archipelagus, Natoliam, Ægyptum, Levantam, Barcam, Tripolin, Tunetanum, Algeriam, Fezzam, Maurocum : quibus accedunt insulæ Majorca, Minorca, Ebusa, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicilia, Candia, et Cyprus. It was published by Gerard and Leonard Valk, cum Privilegio ca. 1695. Scale [ca. 1:36,000,000]. Map in Latin. 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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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  4. Title: Bulgaria & Region, 1710 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Bulgaria et Romaniadivisa in singulares sangiacatus Silistriam, Nicopolin, Bodinum, Sardiam, Bysantium, Kirkeliam et Gallipolin, una cum finitimis regionibus Valachia, Servia etc., per Ger. et Leon. Valk. It was published by G. & L. Valk in 1710. Scale [ca. 1:320,000]. Covers Bulgaria and portions of Serbia, Romania, Turkey, Greece, and Macedonia. Map in Latin. 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, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.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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  5. Title: Map of the country embracing the route of the expedition of 1823 commanded by Major S.H. Long

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of the Great Lakes and Rainy River regions and the valleys of the Minnesota River and Red River of the North, showing the route of the 1823 expedition of Stephen Harriman Long. Includes descriptive notes, and indicates the dates and locations where the expedition stopped. Indicates settlements, forts, and Native American tribal regions. The route of the expedition is shown in red. Notes: Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. From: Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's River : Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., performed in the year 1823, by order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Stephen H. Long, U.S.T.E. : compiled from the notes of Major Long, Messrs. Say, Keating, & Colhoun by William H. Keating. London : G.B. Whittaker, 1825. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000

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  6. Title: A plan of the city of New York in the yeare [sic] 1664 : compiled from olde maps & documents showing land grants

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    Summary: Selected buildings shown pictorially.; Shows land ownership, with overlay of modern street locations and names.; Includes index of points of interest, with descriptions and brief histories; official seals of New Netherland, New York City, New Amsterdam, and New York state; flags flying over New York over time. 36 x 31 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,215 City Maps

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  7. Title: Hydrographic map of Lake Monona, Dane Co., Wisconsin and of the adjacent topography

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    Summary: (W 89⁰24ʹ--W 89⁰19ʹ/N 43⁰6ʹ--N 43⁰2ʹ). Relief shown by contours, hypsometric tints, bathymetric soundings and isolines. 44 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:15,600 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Tonkin, Vietnam, 1886 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte commerciale du Tonkin : partie exploree, dressee par F. Bianconi d'apres les documents officiels. It was published by Chaix in 1886. Scale 1:700,000. Covers a portion of the Tonkin region, Northern Vietnam. 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 48N, 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 cities and other human settlements, drainage, roads, railroads, mines, crop fields (rice, corn, tea, tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane, etc.), forests, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by shading. Includes also inset: Carte generale de l'Indochine.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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  9. Title: Birds eye view of the city of Louisiana, Pike County, Mo. : 1876

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    Summary: Birds-eye view.; Relief shown pictorially.; Indexed. on sheet 34 x 42 Centimeters Scale not given City Maps

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  10. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and vicinity, 1896 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Philadelphia and vicinity : Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1896. Scale 1:62,500. Covers Philadelphia and portions of surrounding counties. 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. USGS maps are typical topographic maps portraying both natural and manmade features. They show and name works of nature, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, vegetation, etc. They 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 20 feet. 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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  11. Title: Portion of west campus, State University of Iowa, 1939

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    Summary: 1 map

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  12. Title: Fort Dodge, Iowa, 1896

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    Summary: 1 black and white map 68 x 65 cm Scale [ca. 1:5280]

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  13. Title: Paris, France, 1887 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de la ville de Paris en 1789, ce plan a ete dresse sous la direction de M.M. Armand Renauld inspecteur en chef des Beaux Arts et des Travaux Historiques, Hochereau conservatoeur du plan de Paris par Lucien Faucou, sous-conservateur de la Bibliotheque et des Collections Historiques de la ville de Paris: collaborateurs M.M. Laporte dessinateur, Bibert, dessinateur, Bizard, geom`etre, Wuhrer graveur, Sulpis graveur : Ce plan a ete execute conformement de la decision pris par le Counsil Municipal. It was published by Conseil Municipal 30 Dec. 1887. Scale [ca. 1:10,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N 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 roads, bridges, drainage, quays, built-up areas and selected buildings, churches, parks, gardens, election district boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by form lines. Includes table of election districts.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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  14. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 15

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    Summary: Plate 14, Geology map of Township 60 North, Range 2 West, Cook County, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 1/2 mile.

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  15. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 3

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    Summary: Geology of the Gunflint District, Minnesota, scale 1:24,000.

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  16. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 17

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    Summary: Plate 16, Geology map of Township 58 North, Range 5 West, Cook County, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 1/2 mile.

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  17. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 2

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    Summary: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, 1 inch = about 4 miles.

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  18. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 16

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    Summary: Plate 15, Geology map of Township 59 North, Range 4 West, Cook County, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 1/2 mile.

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  19. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 5

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    Summary: Plate 4, Sequence of volcanic lava flows along shore from Good Harbor Bay to Grand Portage Bay, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 3/4 miles.

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  20. Title: Geology of Cook County, Minnesota, Bulletin 39, Plate 9

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    Summary: Plate 8, Geology map of Townships 61 and 62 North, Range 3 East, Cook County, Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 1/2 mile.

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