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  1. Title: New England Railroads, 1874 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Railway map of the New England states : prepared expressly for the Pathfinder railway guide. It was published forThe pathfinder railway guide, Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 1874 by Geo. K. Snow. Scale not given. Covers Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of New York, Maine, and the province of Quebec, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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 railroads completed and under construction, drainage, state boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  2. Title: Battles of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1847 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Battles of Mexico : survey of the line of operations of the U.S. Army under the command of Major General Winfield Scott on the 8th, 12th, & 13th Septr. 1847 made under the direction of Maj. W. Turnbull Topl. Engineers by Capt. McClellan & Lieut. Hardcastle, Topl. Engineers ; drawn by Capt. McClellan. It was published by Lit. de Salazar in 1847. Scale [ca. 1:15,900]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 14N, 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 roads, built-up areas, selected buildings with names of landowners, drainage, canals, troop disposition, movements, and lines of defenses, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also legend of troop movements, chart of 'killed or wounded & missing 13th', and inset: 'Worth's Command on 8th Sept.'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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  3. Title: Battles of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, 1848 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Battles of Mexico : survey of the line of operations of the U.S. Army, under command of Major General Winfield Scott, on the 19th & 20th August & on the 8th, 12th & 13th September, 1847, made by Maj. Turnbull, Capt. McClellan & Lieut. Hardcastle, Topl. Engs. ; drawn by Capt. McClellan. It was published by C.B. Graham in 1848. Scale [ca. 1:31,680]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 14N, 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 roads, built-up areas, selected buildings with names of landowners, drainage, canals, troop disposition, movements, and lines of defenses, fortifications, ground cover, and more. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Includes positions and numbers of troops, and casualty statistics for the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec, and inset: Part of the Valley of Mexico. 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: Battles of Mexico : survey of the line of operations of the U.S. Army, under command of Major General Winfield Scott, on the 19th & 20th August & on the 8th, 12th & 13th September, 1847

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. In lower left corner: "Bureau Corps T. Engineers. 3rd March 1848. Examined & approved, J.J. Abert, Col. Corps T.E." "Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Curtis B. Graham, in the Clerk's Office of the District of Columbia." Inset: Part of the Valley of Mexico. Includes positions and numbers of troops, and casualty statistics for the battles of Contreras, Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and Chapultepec.

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  5. Title: New England Railroads, 1863 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of railways in the New England states : engraved expressly for Snow's pathfinder railway guide, engraved in relief for Power Press Printing by W.C. Sharp. It was published in Snow's Pathfinder railway guide, week ending Saturday, May 9, 1863. Scale not given. Covers Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and portions of New York, Maine, and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the USA Contiguous Albers Equal Area Conic projection (Meters). 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 railroads completed and under construction, drainage, state and town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes advertisements and index to selected towns in Mass. and N.H. and insets: Map of Boston and vicinity, 1860 -- New map of Boston, 1862. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  6. Title: Boston, Massachusetts and vicinity, showing Revolutionary War fortification sites, 1788 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Boston with its environs, [by] T. Conder, sculpt. The map was originally published in: William Gordon's The history of the rise, progress, and establishment, of the independence of the United States of America, 1788. Scale [ca. 1:53,360]. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows Revolutionary War features such as positions of troops, redoubts, batteries, and forts, etc. It also shows features such as roads, drainage, selected public buildings and residences, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  7. Title: Antwerp, Belgium, ca. 1675 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii : Nobili?imo, Ampli?imo, Prudenti?imoq[ue] Senatuj Urbis Antverpi?, nec non Marchionatus Sacri Imperij, Viris Consultissimis Sapientissimisq[ue], hanc Novam et a quamplurimis mendis expurgatam totjus Territorij Tabulam lubenti?imo devoti?imoq[ue] animo offert, dedicat, consecrat Nicolaus Jansenius Piscator ; CI Vissher excudebat. It was published by Nicolaus Jansenius Piscator ca. 1675. Scale [ca. 1:23,000]. Covers Antwerp, Belgium. Map in Latin and Dutch.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Belge Lambert 1972' 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. Includes text, inset map: [Antwerp and greater Belgium], and views: Templi D. Viriginis Mari? vera delineatio --- St. Michiels Kercke -- Mari? Poort -- Kerck der Augustin? -- Bursa -- Antwerpen [Northern view] -- Antwerpen [Southern view] -- Domus Hans? Teutonic? -- Kerck der Carmeliten -- S[t] Ioris Poort -- Kercke der Iesuiten -- Domus Senatoria Antwerpiensis -- Antwerpen [view from the Sheldt River].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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  8. Title: Map of the White Nile from Lardo to Urondogani by Colonel Gordon, C.B. R.E., surveyed in 1875-76

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Government stations and positions determined astronomically are shown. Includes information on navigability of rivers, groundwater, and vegetation. "The topography &c. other than that mapped by Col. Gordon & the Officers of his Staff are here drawn in hairline, The routes of Speke & Grant, & of Baker, are shewn in light dotted lines." From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 46 (1876), pp. 431-2; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 46 1876

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  9. Title: Map of Hennepin County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Shows property owners outside of Minneapolis city limits. Blueprint.; Facsimile; location of original and date of reproduction unknown.; Engraved by Worley & Bracher; printed by F. Bourquin.; Includes directory. 76 x 79 centimeters or smaller Scale [1:38,900] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  10. Title: Plat book of Houston county, Minnesota : drawn from actual surveys and the county records

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    Summary: ""Eng[raved] by Worley & Bracher ... Phila."" 45 x 39 centimeters Scales differ. Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  11. Title: Colton's township and railroad map of the United States of America : including a large portion of Canada, New Brunswick, & showing the base meridian and township lines of the U.S. surveys, rail roads and other internal improvements

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    Summary: Railroads--United States--Maps

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  12. Title: Simple Bouguer gravity map of Minnesota, Brainerd sheet, M-40

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    Summary: Bouguer gravity anomaly map (anomaly related to different densities of rocks in the upper crust, Bouguer anomaly is a corrected difference between an observed gravity measurement and value predicted from a generalized earth model), shown as contour lines (isolines) of equal value, Brainerd quadrangle, scale 1:250,000.

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  13. Title: Beijing, China, 1843 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Chinese plan of the city of Peking, T.B. Jervis; the chinese characters and explanations rendered into English were furnished by Mr. Samuel Birch, from a comparison of the above documents and the notes appended to the original by the students in the Missionary College at Naples. It was published by lithographed and printed under the direction of T.B. Jervis Scale [ca. 1:50,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM Zone 50N, 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 roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, parks, cemeteries, ground cover, city districts, fortification, missions, temples, and more. Relief shown pictorially. Includes also dedication: 'To Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. This fac-simile of a Chinese plan of the Tartar, or inner city, Nuyching, and the Imperial Palace Kingtoo of Peking or Chun Thein Foo. The northern residence of the court, or capital of the Chinese Empire is most respectfully inscribed, with Her Majesty's faithful servant T. B. Jervis.'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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  14. Title: Dune Park sheet, Indiana

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    Summary: Relief shown by contours. "Topography 1917." Includes "explanation of map" and description of "routes to Dune Park" by Rollin D. Salisbury. 32 x 23 centimeters Scale approximately 1:17,500 General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Pompei, Italy, 1909 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pompeiorum quae efossa sunt : 1:1000. It was published by Georg Reimer in 1909. Scale 1:1,000. Covers Pompei, Italy. Map in Latin.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'European Datum 1950 UTM Zone 33 North' 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, selected buildings, plans of ancient sites, 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.

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  16. Title: Map of Newfoundland to accompany the paper by Alexander Murray Esqre

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    Summary: Relief shown by spot heights. Shows harbors, offshore islands, and major rivers. "The parts coloured Green represent the tracts now known to be more or less fit for settlement." Telegraph line and line of railway survey are shown. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 47, (1877), pp. 266-78; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.47 1877

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  17. Title: Map of part of the island of Newfoundland to illustrate the paper by Staff-Commander G. Robinson R.N.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Route of the party overland from Bonne Bay to Green Bay is shown. Includes elevation profile of route [horizontal scale 1:253,440; vertical scale ca. 1:38,400]. Includes descriptions of vegetation and soil quality. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 47, (1877), pp. 278-84; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.47 1877

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  18. Title: Map of the states of Michigan and Wisconsin: embracing a great part of Iowa and Illinois, and the whole mineral region with a chart of the lakes. exhibiting the sections, the geological formations, and the general topography; compiled from the state topographical department, from the latest United States surveys, and from other authentic sources, by John Farmer of Detroit.; Alternate title: Geological map of the mineral region: from the official plate of the United States surveys and chart of Lake Superior reduced from the survey and chart of Lieut. Bayfield of the R.N.

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    Summary: Shows the Lake Superior region. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. "Engraved by J. Farmer." "Entered according to act of Congress...the 8th day of July 1847 by John Farmer." "Entered according to act of Congress...on the 6th day of March A.D. 1849 by John Farmer." Insets: Map of the surveyed part of Min[n]esota -- Map of Beaver Islands -- Plat of Isle Royale. 1 map: hand col.; 50 x 101 cm

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  19. Title: Map of the United States : exhibiting the principal rail road & steam boat routes.

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    Summary: Gives tables of distances from New Orleans and New York.;Relief shown using hachures.;1 map, hand colored;25 x 20 cm.;ca. 1:11,500,000

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  20. Title: Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Urban Tree Canopy Assessment (2015)

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    Summary: A high-resolution (1-meter) tree canopy assessment was completed for the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Mapping of existing and potential tree canopy is critical for urban tree management at the landscape level. This classification was created from combined 2015 aerial imagery, LIDAR data, and ancillary thematic layers. These data sets were integrated using an Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) approach through multi-resolution image segmentation and an iterative set of classification commands in the form of customized rulesets. eCognition Developer was used to develop the rulesets and produce raster classification products for TCMA. The results were evaluated using randomly placed and independent verified assessment points. The classification product was analyzed at regional scales to compare distributions of tree canopy spatially and at different resolutions. The combination of spectral data and LiDAR through an OBIA method helped to improve the overall accuracy results providing more aesthetically pleasing maps of tree canopy with highly accurate results.

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