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  1. Title: Pacific Coast of Mexico, Central America, and the Region Around the Galapagos Islands Showing Route of the Steamer Albatross, 1891 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Explorations of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross : Lieut. Comdr. Z. L. Tanner U.S.N. Comdg. : Februrary to April 1891. It was printed for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University in 1892. Scale [ca. 1:7,500,000]. Covers the Pacific Coast of Mexico, Central America, and the region around the Galapagos Islands. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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, human settlements, shoreline features, bays, harbors, islands, and more. Relief shown by soundings and bathymetric isolines and tints. Shows the route of the Agassiz-Albatross Cruise 1891. 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.

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  2. Title: Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, 1891 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Galapagos Islands : showing exploration of the U.S. Fish Commission steamer 'Albatross' Lieut-Comdr. Z. L. Tanner U.S.N. Comdg. February to April 1891. It was printed for the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1892. Scale [ca. 1:1,400,000]. Covers Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Mercator' 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 shoreline features, islands and islets, bays, harbors, inlets, points, rocks, bottom types, and more. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Includes note on legend and source. 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.

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  3. Title: Monroe County soil map.

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    Summary: Shows dirt roads, improved roads, railroads, school houses, and churches. Detached from: Soil survey of Monroe, Brown, Lawrence, Martin, Orange, Washington, and Jackson counties / C.W. Shannon and L.C. Snider. In 32nd Annual report of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources. Scale approximately 1:63,360

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  4. Title: Map of Indianapolis

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    Summary: Includes names of railroad lines.; Shows boudaries for nine sections of town. Scale not given.

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  5. Title: General highway map, Benzie County

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Sponsored by: Benzie County Road Commission, Benzie County Board of Supervisors, and Chambers of Commerce. Includes county key map. Illustrations and promotional text on verso: It's fun to be in Benzie County Michigan : fifty lakes in fifty minutes. Scale approximately 1:95,040

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  6. Title: Mapa de la navegacion de Alto Marañón

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading.; Includes inset: Croquis del paso de la lancha "San Miguel" por el Pongo de Manseriche. 92 x 70 centimeters Scale 1:250,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Plano del Rio Huallaga

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading.; Prime meridian: Paris.; "Para el nuevo mapa del Departamento de Loreto, trazado por orden del Coronel Pedro Portillo." 49 x 37 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Plano del Rio Amazonas Peruano

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Paris. 40 x 96 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Plano del Rio Napo dibujo de Camilo Vallejos Z., cartografo

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Paris.; Relief shown by shading.; Includes text. 100 x 135 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Plano del Rio Putumayo

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Paris.; Relief shown by shading. 97 x 186 centimeters, sheets 98 x 64 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Croquis de los Rios Alto Ucayali y Bajo Urubamba

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. 63 x 46 centimeters Scale 1:500,000 General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Map of the city of Central Falls

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    Summary: Includes streets, railroads and rivers. Pencil mark changes on map; "Please note changes. R.Z. Macomber, engineer." 21 x 25 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,400. 200 feet = 1 inch City Maps

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  13. Title: Map of the city of Central Falls

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    Summary: Includes streets, railroads and rivers. Pencil mark changes on map; "Please note changes. R.Z. Macomber, engineer." 21 x 25 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,400 200 feet = 1 inch General Map Collection

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  14. Title: New Orleans, Louisiana, 1906 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The Picayune's map of New Orleans, Alf. F. Theard, del. It was published by The [Daily] Picayune in 1906. Scale not given. Covers also adjacent portions of Jefferson and St. Bernard Parishes. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Louisiana State Plane Coordinate System, South NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1702). 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 roads, railroads, canals, levees, drainage, selected public and industrial buildings, cemeteries, Parish boundaries, ferry routes, and more. Includes legend to points of interest. 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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  15. Title: Genoese world map, 1457, facsimile and critical text incorporating in free translation the studies of Professor Theobald Fischer.

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    Summary: 5 p. 1., 66 p., 1 l.: ill., 5 maps (incl. front.)

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  16. Title: A new map of Michigan with its canals, roads & distances

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Relief shown by hachures. From Tanner, H.S. A new universal atlas. Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1842. No. 29. Prime meridian: Washington. Includes table of steamboat routes. Scale approximately 1:2,050,000

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  17. Title: Berlin : Bearbeiter der Karte: Prof. Dr. G. Fochler-Hauke ; Herausgegeben vom Presse- und Informationsamt des Landes Berlin

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    Summary: A town map of Berlin showing borderlines, checkpoints, airports, air corridors, railways, subways, highways, motorways, stations, canals, parks, nature reserves, forests, cemeteries, and the Berlin wall. Includes index of numbers on map, information and pie charts on goods supplied and purchased by West Berlin in 1960, graph of passenger arrivals and departures, graph of visitors and nights spent in West Berlin, pie chart on percentage of tourist traffic to West Berlin, and pictures of the Wall at the Brandenburg Gate and the Europa Center. Selected buildings and the Berlin Wall are pictorially depicted. Map shows: Borderline of Western occupation sectors before their abolition as individual sectors, West Berlin, Soviet Zone, and control of Western Allied Military missions and diplomats, checkpoints; East-West border crossings. "JRO-Sonderkarte"--Panel.

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  18. Title: Map of Explorations and Surveys in New Mexico and Utah; made under the direction of the Secretary of War by Capt. J.N. Macomb, Top'l. Eng'rs, assisted by C.H. Dimmock, C. Eng'r, 1860.; New Mexico and Utah

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Shows survey routes and location of Native American tribes and towns. Includes portions of Colorado and Arizona. Bottom right corner includes text on "Central Gold Region" attributed to Egloffstein. Text in lower margin: "Geographical Institute, Baron F.W. von Egloffstein, No. 164 Broadway, N.York, 1864." From "Report of the Exploring Expedition From Santa Fe, New Mexico, To The Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the Great Colorado of the West, In 1859, Under the Command of Capt. J.N. Macomb, Corps of Topographical Engineers" 1 map: 71 x 87 cm

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  19. Title: Rio Colorado of the West; explored by 1st. Lieut. Joseph C. Ives, Topl. Engrs. under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Capt. Topl. Engrs. in charge, by order of the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War; drawn by Frhr. F.W. v. Egloffstein, topographer to the expedition.; Explorations and Surveys, War Department, map no. 2.

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and hachures. Also shows routes of exploration. At head of title: Explorations and Surveys, War Department, map no. 2. 1 map; 38 x 89 cm, folds to 27 x 18cm.

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  20. Title: Geological Map No. 2; prepared by J. S. Newberry M.D. geologist to the expedition.; Rio Colorado of the West.;Explorations and Surveys, War Department, map no. 2.

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading and hachures. "Explorations and Surveys, War Department, map no. 2. Explored by 1st. Lieut. Joseph C. Ives, Topl. Engrs. under the direction of the Office of Explorations and Surveys, A.A. Humphreys, Capt. Topl. Engrs. in charge, by order of the Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of War; drawn by Frhr. F.W. v. Egloffstein, topographer to the expedition." Colored to show different geological areas, with key along bottom border. Also shows routes of exploration. 1 map: col.; 38 x 89 cm, folds to 27 x 18cm.

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