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  1. Title: Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1844 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of New York with the adjacent cities of Brooklyn and Jersey City, and the village of Williamsburg, drawn & engraved by Story & Atwood. It was published by H. Phelps in 1844. Scale [ca. 1:14,000]. Covers Manhattan below 32nd St. and portions of Brooklyn and Jersey City. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 roads, drainage, city wards, fire districts, selected public buildings, ferry lines, wharves, radial distances from City Hall, and more. Includes insets: Jersey City -- Northern part of New York island. 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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  2. Title: Map of the western states

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    Summary: Cover title: Ensign & Thayer's map of the western states. Prime meridian: Washington, D.C. 44 x 58 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 General Map Collection

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  3. Title: Map of the United States, the British provinces, Mexico &c.; drawn & engraved by J.M. Atwood.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows California's gold region and western trails. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1849 by J.H. Colton ..." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. "Printed at Ackermans r[ooms 120?] Fulton St. N.Y." Includes 2 insets, ill., and distance table. 1 map: hand col.; 39 x 55 cm.

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  4. Title: Phelps's national map of the United States : a travellers' guide : embracing the principal rail roads, canals, steam boat & stage routes, throughout the Union

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    Summary: This map of the United States shows the country as it was in 1848, before the massive territorial expansion that followed the War with Mexico.; Prime meridian: Washington.; From: Phelps' travelers' guide through the United States. New York, 1848.; Insets: Northern Maine -- Southern Florida -- Philadelphia -- Baltimore -- New York -- Boston -- Pittsburgh -- St. Louis -- Cincinnati -- Chicago.; Surrounding the map are artistic portraits of the first eleven presidents as well as other important early statesmen and explorers, state seals, a sketch of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and an artistic representation of the Great Seal of the United States. 45 x 56 centimeters Scale [ca. 1:4,500,000] General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Map of the western states

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    Summary: Railroads -- United States -- Maps; Canals -- United States -- Maps; Roads -- Middle West -- Maps; Middle West -- Maps; Northwest, Old -- Maps; Maps 56 x 70 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 General Map Collection

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