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  1. Title: Übersichts Charte von Europa und den angrenzenden Ländern in Nord Africa und West Asien in 9 Blatt

    • Image data
    • 1827
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    Summary: Map of Europe and Turkey with parts of North Africa and the Middle East. Relief shown by hachures. Wall map. Historic Maps copy has label on verso: Ch. Picquet, géographe du Roi ... , Paris; title in ms. on label: Europe, Rühl de Lilienstern.

  2. Title: Switzerland, ca. 1715 (Image 3 of 4) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2010
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica : illustrissimis et potentissimis cantonibus et rebuspublicis reformatae religionis Tigurinae, Bernensi, Glaronensi, Basiliensi, Scaphusianae, Abbatis Cellanae, dominis suis clementissimis humillime [de]dicata a Ioh. Iacobo Scheuchzero Tigurino med. d. math. prof. It was published by ex officin a Petri Schenkii, in platea vulgo de Warmoesstraat sub signo N. Visschers Athlas ca. 1715. Covers Switzerland. Scale [ca. 1:378,000]. This layer is image 3 of 4 total images of the four sheet source map, representing the northeast portion of the map. Map in Latin and Dutch.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 and administrative boundaries, roads, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also illustrations. 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.

  3. Title: Switzerland, ca. 1715 (Image 2 of 4) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2010
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica : illustrissimis et potentissimis cantonibus et rebuspublicis reformatae religionis Tigurinae, Bernensi, Glaronensi, Basiliensi, Scaphusianae, Abbatis Cellanae, dominis suis clementissimis humillime [de]dicata a Ioh. Iacobo Scheuchzero Tigurino med. d. math. prof. It was published by ex officin a Petri Schenkii, in platea vulgo de Warmoesstraat sub signo N. Visschers Athlas ca. 1715. Covers Switzerland. Scale [ca. 1:378,000]. This layer is image 2 of 4 total images of the four sheet source map, representing the southwest portion of the map. Map in Latin and Dutch.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 and administrative boundaries, roads, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also illustrations. 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.

  4. Title: Switzerland, ca. 1715 (Image 1 of 4) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2010
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica : illustrissimis et potentissimis cantonibus et rebuspublicis reformatae religionis Tigurinae, Bernensi, Glaronensi, Basiliensi, Scaphusianae, Abbatis Cellanae, dominis suis clementissimis humillime [de]dicata a Ioh. Iacobo Scheuchzero Tigurino med. d. math. prof. It was published by ex officin a Petri Schenkii, in platea vulgo de Warmoesstraat sub signo N. Visschers Athlas ca. 1715. Covers Switzerland. Scale [ca. 1:378,000]. This layer is image 1 of 4 total images of the four sheet source map, representing the northwest portion of the map. Map in Latin and Dutch.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 and administrative boundaries, roads, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also illustrations. 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.

  5. Title: Switzerland, ca. 1715 (Image 4 of 4) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2010
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Nova Helvetiae tabula geographica : illustrissimis et potentissimis cantonibus et rebuspublicis reformatae religionis Tigurinae, Bernensi, Glaronensi, Basiliensi, Scaphusianae, Abbatis Cellanae, dominis suis clementissimis humillime [de]dicata a Ioh. Iacobo Scheuchzero Tigurino med. d. math. prof. It was published by ex officin a Petri Schenkii, in platea vulgo de Warmoesstraat sub signo N. Visschers Athlas ca. 1715. Covers Switzerland. Scale [ca. 1:378,000]. This layer is image 4 of 4 total images of the four sheet source map, representing the southeast portion of the map. Map in Latin and Dutch.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 and administrative boundaries, roads, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also illustrations. 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.

  6. Title: Hamburg, Germany, 1791 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Grundriss der Kayserl. freien Reichs und Handels stadt Hamburg nebst dem auf Konigl. : Danischen gebiet daran liegenden Altona einen hochpreislichen Senat, gehorsamst zugeeignet von F.A. von Lawrence, Lieutenant ; gestochen von T.A. Pingeling. It was published in 1791. Scale [ca. 1:5,600]. Map in German. Covers Hamburg, Germany. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS84 UTM Zone 32N 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, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, fortification, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. 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.

  7. Title: Athens, Greece, 1878 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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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.

  8. Title: Tabula mundi geographico zoologica sistens quadrupedes : hucusque notos sedibus suis adscriptos

    • Image data
    • 1783
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    Summary: World map showing distribution of mammals ; relief shown by hachures. In lower right margin: Joseph Marianus sculp. Aug. Vind. Probably issued in: Geographische Geschichte des Menschen, und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüssigen Thiere ... / von E.A.W. Zimmermann ... Leipzig : In der Weygandschen Buchhandlung, 1778-1783.

  9. Title: Cincinnati, Ohio, ca. 1840 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2011
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Cincinnati, Covington & Newport, drawn by B. Oertly. It was lithographed and published by Otto Onken, ca. 1840. Scale [ca. 1:10,500]. Covers also a portion of Northern Kentucky. 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, railroads and stations, drainage, selected buildings, city ward boundaries, cemeteries, canals, and more. Includes also indexes and inset map of Millcreek Township.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.

  10. Title: Africa with expedition routes, 1865 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Karte von Afrika nach den neuesten Forschungen : mit Angabe der wichtigsten Entdeckungswege, bearbeitet und gezeichnet von Henry Lange. It was published by Otto Purfurst in 1865. Scale 1:14,250,000. Covers also Madagascar and part of the Arabian peninsula. 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 25 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, expedition routes, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes legend of expedition routes. 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.

  11. Title: Dresden, Germany, 1878 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan von Dresden :im Maa?sstab 1:15000 der nat. Gr?sse, bearbeitet u. gezeichnet v. A. Kiesling u. J.F. Winckler; Gestochen von A. K?hler. It was published by Verlag von H. Jaenicke in [1878]. Scale 1:15,000. 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 5 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, city districts, 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.

  12. Title: Uebersichtskarte zu Buchner's Lahnführer

    • Image data
    • 1891
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    Summary: Map of the Lahn River Valley in the German state of Hesse. Relief shown by hachures. From: Führer für Giessen und das Lahnthal : von der Quelle bis zum Rhein ... / von Otto Buchner. Giessen : Roth, 1891.

  13. Title: Map to illustrate the explorations in Eastern Africa

    • Image data
    • 1866
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes mountains, rivers, streams (c̆hors), settlements, and Krockow's routes. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 36 (1866), pp. 298-200; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.36 1866

  14. Title: Estonia & Latvia, 1791 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2011
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Livland nach der Eintheilung Heinrich des Letten : und zu den Zeiten der Bischoffe u. Ordensmeister bis 1562, entworffen von W. C. Friebe ; gezeichnet von J. W. Krause ; gestochen von F. Ramberg. It was published by J. F. Hartknoch, ca. 1791. Scale [ca. 1:880,000]. Covers Estonia and a portion of Latvia. Map in German.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 by hachures.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.

  15. Title: Map of the country embracing the route of the expedition of 1823 commanded by Major S.H. Long

    • Not specified
    • 1825
    Contributors:

    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.

  16. Title: Nuremberg, Germany, ca. 1881 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2009
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, untitled paper map: [Nurnberg]. It was published by August Paul ca. 1881. Scale [ca. 1:6,500]. Covers a portion of Nuremberg, 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, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings pictorially, fortification, 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.

  17. Title: Karte von Nassau und Theilen der angränzenden Staaten bis Hanau, Giessen, Olpe, Bonn und Creuznach : unter Berücksichtigung der Grossh. Darmst. trigonometrischen Vermessung und mit Benutzung der bei den betreffenden königl. Preuss. grossh. Hess. u. herz. Nass. Hohen Regierungen vorliegenden Materialien

    • Image data
    • 1843
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Ancillary maps: Plan von Frankfurt a.M. -- Der Rheinlauf von Basel bis nach Mainz -- Plan von Wiesbaden -- Plan von Coblenz -- Der Rheinlauf von Bonn bis zu dem Meer -- Plan von Mainz. Includes views of Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Coblenz and Mainz. Historic Maps copy originally folded in covers 19 x 12 cm. "Kartenfreunde und Geographen finden über die, dieser Karte zu Grund liegenden Materialien und den bei der Bearbeitung eingeschlagenen Weg in dem Werke "Erläuterungen zu dem Relief der Rheinlande, von A. Ravenstiein, Frankfurt 1841" den gewünschten Aufschluss."

  18. Title: Zoning Map, Saugus, Massachusetts, 1978 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2014
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Zoning map, town of Saugus, Massachusetts, Essex County, original map prepared by Otto & Dwyer Inc. It was published by Saugus Engineering Department in 1978. Scale [ca. 1:12,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes also zoning districts. 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.

  19. Title: Sketch of vicinity of Fort Fisher

    • Not specified
    • 1865
    Contributors:

    Summary: E. Moliter, lith. 48 x 33 centimeters

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