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

    • Not specified
    • 1900
    Contributors:

    Summary: (W 89⁰24ʹ--W 89⁰19ʹ/N 43⁰6ʹ--N 43⁰2ʹ). Relief shown by contours, hypsometric tints, bathymetric soundings and isolines. 44 x 44 centimeters

  2. Title: Geologic map of the State of California

    • Not specified
    • 1916
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Also shows oil fields. 146 x 119 centimeters on 2 sheets 79 x 124 centimeters

  3. Title: Zoning, Beverly, Massachusetts, 1997 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Zoning map of the city of Beverly, Mass. It was published by Dept. of Planning and Development in 1997. Scale [1:10,800]. 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, watersheds overlay, selected public buildings, zoning and town boundaries, and more. 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: Mediterranean Sea, ca. 1695 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    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.

  5. Title: Bulgaria & Region, 1710 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2011
    Contributors:

    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.

  6. Title: A Literary Map of the United States : Books that Sharpen Perception of the American Scene

    • Pictorial maps ; Thematic maps
    • 1957
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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 50 x 75 cm Pictorial map.

  7. Title: Michigan

    • Not specified
    • 1842
    Contributors:

    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: In: Greenleaf, J. A new universal atlas, 1842, no. 44. Similar to facsimile 1842 Greenleaf Michigan in Clements collection except for pre-1837 boundary with Ohio that includes Toledo.

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

    • Not specified
    • 1825
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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.

  9. Title: Southborough, Massachusetts, 1973 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2014
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Town of Southborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts :zoning by-law map, 1964 /James W. Sewall Company, Old Town, Me. It was published by Planning Board in Scale [ca. 1:15,000]. 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 and handwritten revisions. 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: Index of Aerial Photography, Massachusetts, ca. 1985 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2013
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Index of aerial photography : color infrared photography of the Massachusetts land base / James W. Sewall Company [for] Department of Environmental Management. It was published by Department of Environmental Management ca. 1985. Scale 1:250,000. 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, state parks, military bases, drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. 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.

  11. Title: City of San Diego (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2015
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of San Diego. The map was published by the Marston Company in celebration of its Golden Anniversary. Joseph Jacinto “Jo” Mora came to the United States as a child, studied art in the New York, then worked for Boston newspapers as a cartoonist. He was a man of many other talents, artist-historian, sculptor, painter, photographer, illustrator, muralist and author. Later in life, he became quite a renown artist. In 1903, Mora came to California and ultimately did his fabulous work mostly there. Reproduction edition by the San Diego History Center. Jo Mora's wonderful combination of fun, historical knowledge and sense of color are highlighted in this detailed bird's eye view style map of San Diego - what there was of it, since most of the map is green (agriculture and the country) or blue for the sea. However an indication of the future is seen in a pictograph marked SUBDIVISION with a salesman expansively gesticulating to a couple with a bag marked IOWA. At sea a lookout on the ship Cabrillo exclaims "Caramba! You'd never know the old place now." The border depicts historical events. At lower left are images of six buildings and fantastical beasts who are to be seen at Balboa Park. 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.

  12. Title: [Monterey Peninsula] : California's playground

    • Image data
    • 1926
    Contributors:

    Summary: Borders contain historical chronology and vignettes. Map contains scattered cartoons of wildlife and human activities. Shows coast line from from Hotel Del Monte in Monterey to Pt. Lobos. Oriented with north to top. Dedication to "His Excellency the Count of Monterey ..." from his "Obedient and most humble Servt's The Del Monte Properties Compy."

  13. Title: Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota : and the north western part of Wisconsin

    • Not specified
    • 1867
    Contributors:

    Summary: Shows Wadena and Beltrami counties and portion of Morrison County extending west of the Mississippi; Cook County not shown.; "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1857 by J.S. Sewall in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Second District of Minnesota."; Originally folded in cover (15 x 10 cm).; Inside front cover: Sewall's map of Minnesota, sold ... by D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co., agents ... St. Paul, July 1, 1867. 81 x 59 Centimeters

  14. Title: Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota and the northwestern part of Wisconsin

    • Not specified
    • 1857
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    Summary: Hand colored."Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857, by J.S. Sewall, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of Minnesota."Includes view of Fuller House, St. Paul and advertisements for Caldwell, Whitney & Co., bankers, St. Paul and Henry Mckenty, realtor, St. Paul. 55 x 39 centimeters

  15. Title: Map of the general government roads in the territory of Minnesota, September 1854

    • Road maps
    • 1854
    Contributors:

    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:760,320. 12 miles to one in.In: U.S. 33d Cong., 2d sess., 1854-1855. Senate ex. doc. -- no. 1, map 29. -- (Serial set ; 748).Includes table showing progress of government road construction. 46 x 32 centimeters

  16. Title: Map of the City and County of San Francisco: carefully compiled from recent surveys ... Drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal. By James Butler 1864. (Raster Image)

    • Not specified
    • 2021
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of San Francisco from 1864. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. 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. Butler, J. (2021). Map of the City and County of San Francisco: carefully compiled from recent surveys ... Drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal. By James Butler 1864.. (Raster Image). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/xj983zr6622 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

  17. Title: Istanbul Region, Turkey, ca. 1900 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2010
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Karte des Bosporus und der Bithynischen Halbinsel, nach alteren Quellen (v. Moltke, Heinrich Kiepert, Brit. Admiralitatskarten, v. d. Goltz, v. Diest u.a.) und eigenen Aufnahmen im Jahre 1900 gezeichnet von Rudolf Fitzner ; Hof. Stdr. v. J. G. Tiedmann Nachf. It was published by C.J.E. Volckmann-Verlag ca. 1900. Scale 1:150,000. Covers the Istanbul region including portions of ?stanbul ?li, Yalova ?li, Kocaeli ?li, and Sakarya ?li. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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, built-up areas, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. 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.

  18. Title: Los Angeles, California, 1908 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2008
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: City of Los Angeles, [by] Homer Hamlin, city engineer. Blueprint published in 1908. Scale [ca. 1:19,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the California State Plane Zone V Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 0405). 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, parks, cemeteries, selected public buildings, 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.

  19. Title: Karte von Epirus und West-Thessalien

    • Image data
    • 1895
    Contributors:

    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Depths shown by isolines. In upper margin: Dr. A. Philippson, Nord-Griechenland. Tafel 4. From: Reisen und Forschungen in Nord-Griechenland / Alfred Philippson. [Berlin] : Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, 1895; in: Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin; Bd. XXX. 1895

  20. Title: Outline of the geology of the globe, 1853.

    • World maps
    • 1853
    Contributors:

    Summary: Detached from: Outline of the geology of the globe, and of the United States in particular : with two geological maps, and sketches of characteristic American fossils / by Edward Hitchcock. [1853 or 1854]. "W.C. Sharp's Lith. Boston." Includes inset of "Supposed Antarctic Continent" and two mountain profiles. 45 x 58 centimeters

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