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  1. Title: Central America & Caribbean Region, 1858 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A new map of tropical-America, north of the Equator : comprising the West-Indies, Central-America, Mexico, New Cranada [sic] and Venezuela by H. Kiepert. It was published by Dietrich Reimer in 1858. Scale [ca. 1:3,600,000].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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, roads, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries and colonial claims, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes also text and inset map: Central part of the Mexican Republic on an enlarged scale, based upon the surveys published by A. v. Humboldt, v. Gerolt, Heller, Smith and the Sociedad Mejicana de Geografia y Estadistica. Scale 1:1,000,000.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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  2. Title: Athens, Greece, 1878 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Athen mit Umgebung, aufgenommen und gezeichnet von J.A. Kaupert 1875; herausgegeben vom Kaiserl. deutschen archaologischen Institute; (mit Nachtragen bis 1877). It was published by Dietrich Reimer in 1878. Scale 1:125,000. Covers the Athens, Greece region.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Greek Geodetic Reference System (also called the Greek Grid). 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, built-up areas, selected buildings, historic sites and points of interest, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes indexes.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: Karte der Sprachverteilung, Bevólkerungsdichte und Bodenschätze von Elsass-Lothringen : auf Grund von Heinrich Kieperts Spezialkarte

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    Summary: Shows language distribution as of the 1910 census, population density as of 1905 and mineral wealth, including iron ore, coal, potash and petroleum.; Relief shown by spot heights.; Date taken from "Fo?rderung der Bodenschätze" table. 101 x 85 centimeters Scale 1:250,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Caucasus, 1854 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Karte der Kaukasus-Lander und der angranzenden Turkischen und Persischen Provinzen Armenien, Kurdistan, und Azerbeidjan, bearbeitet und gezeichnet von H. Kiepert. It was published by Bei Dietrich Reimer in 1854. Scale 1:1,500,000. Covers the Caucasus. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a modified 'Europe Lambert Conformal Conic' projection with a central meridian of 44 degrees East 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, churches, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Islamic Heritage Project. Maps selected for the project represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes. The Islamic Heritage Project consists of over 100,000 digitized pages from Harvard's collections of Islamic manuscripts and published materials. Supported by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and developed in association with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University.

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  5. Title: Das Konigreich Wurtemberg, das Grossherzogthum Baden. Nach C.F. Weilands Entwurf vollig umgearbeitet von H. Kiepert. Weimar, verlag des Geograph. Instituts 1856 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Württemberg Germany created in 1856. The original map appears in "Allgemeiner Hand-Atlas Der Erde Und Des Himmels nach den besten astronomischen Bestimmungen, neuesten Entdeckungen und kritischen Unterfuchungen entworfen. Geographisches Institut In Weimar." The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  6. Title: Henrici Kiepert Formae orbis antiqui

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    Summary: Insets: Libyae ora occidentalis -- Imperium Syracusanum -- Tyrus -- Carthago. 43 x 55 centimeters Scale 1:9,000,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Imperia Persarum et Macedonum

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Insets: Regna Diadochorum medio III⁰ a. Chr. saeculo -- Regna Graecorum II⁰ a. Chr. saeculo. Originally issued folded in covers (19 x 12 cm.) with title: Das persische und macedonische Reich. In upper margin: Atlas antiquus. Tab. II.

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  8. Title: Asia Citerior

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Cover title: Karten zur alten Geschichte. IV. Klein-Asien. At head of map: Atlas antiquus. Tab. IV. Historic Maps copy originally issued in cover (19 x 12 cm).

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  9. Title: Asiatische Türkei

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    Summary: Map of the eastern Ottoman Empire ; relief shown by hachures and spot heights. In upper margin: Kiepert's grosser Handatlas, No. 31. "Sonderausgabe für die Türkei." Historic Maps copy designed to fold to 24 x 29 cm.; leather on lower half of verso, with label in ms.

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  10. Title: Italia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Undecim regiones Italiae ab Augusto Imp. institutae. In upper margin: Atlas antiquus. Tab. VII. Cover title: Karten zur alten Geschichte von Heinrich Kiepert. VII. Italien. Originally issued folded to 19 x 12 cm.

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  11. Title: Graecia cum insulis et oris maris Aegaei

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    Summary: Cover title: Griechenland mit den Inseln und Küsten des Aegäischen Meeres. Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Troas et Hellespontus duplici maioris tabulae modulo. At head of map: Atlas antiquus, tab. V. Originally issued in Kiepert's Atlas antiquus, first published in 1859. Originally issued folded to 19 x 12 cm.

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  12. Title: Asiae Minoris antiquae : tabula in usum scholarum descripta

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Shows major territorial divisions, areas of Greek settlement and colonization, the route of Cyrus according to Xenophon, and the route of Alexander the Great during the ancient period in Asia Minor. "Berolini edidit Ditericus Reimer 1888."

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  13. Title: Westliches Klein Asien

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    Summary: Map of the Dodecanese Islands; relief shown by shading. Plate X from: Specialkarte vom Westlichen Kleinasien ... Berlin : Dietrich Reimer, 1890.

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  14. Title: Imperia Persarum et Macedonum in usum scholarum descripta

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. Historic Maps copy imperfect: sheets IV and VI wanting.

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  15. Title: H. Kiepert's Politische Schul-Wandkarte von Séd-America. : im Masstabe von 1:8,000,000

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    Summary: South America--Maps

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  16. Title: Carte générale des provinces européennes et asiatiques de l'Empire Ottoman : (sans l'Arabie)

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    Summary: Map of Ottoman Empire from Italy to the Caspian Sea, including adjacent countries and part of northern Africa; relief shown by hachures and spot heights.

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  17. Title: General-Karte von Europa in 9 Blättern

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Inset: Ethnographische Übersicht von Europa nach den Volkssprachen. Shows steamship routes. Originally issued as one sheet.

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  18. Title: Prof. C. Haussknecht's Routen im Orient, 1865-1869

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. Includes insets. Map III has insets: Route in Nord-Persien -- Türkisch-Persicher Grenzbezirk in Kurdistan im doppelten Massstab der Hauptkarte -- Der mittlere Theil der Hauptkarte in doppeltem Massstabe. Historic Maps copy imperfect: Maps I-II and IV, and text, wanting.

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  19. Title: Carte de la Régence de Tunis : dressée d'après les cartes nautiques de la marine Anglaise, les cartes de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie publiées par le depôt de la guerre Franc̦ais et les itinéraires des voyageurs Européens, surtout de feu M. Wilmanns

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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Cover title: Nouvelle carte de la Régence de Tunis. Originally issued folded , in cover 23 x 15 cm.

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  20. Title: Special-Karte des Türkischen Armeniens : nach allen vorhandenen Quellen : besonders den Aufnahmekarten des russischen Gebietes vom Kaukasischen Generalstabe, einschliesslich der 1829 und 1854-55 auf türkischem Gebiete ausgeführten militairischen Recognoscirungen, sowie nach sämmtlichen veröffentlichten Reiseberichten und Wegeskizzen (namentlich von Hamilton, Prof. C. Koch, Gen. W. Strecker, Gen. J. Bluhm, Dr. M. Deffner, Dr. Narses Sarkisean)

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    Summary: Map of Turkey; relief shown by shading and spot heights.

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