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  1. Title: Plan af Helsingfors

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:8,500. Facsimile. Relief shown by hachures. Cadastral map. Includes indexes and inset of Helsinki region. 1 map : color ; 39 x 53 centimeters Scale approximately 1:8,500 General Map Collection

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  2. Title: Pass charta öfver Finska Wiken, 1790 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pass charta öfver Finska Wiken : på. Kongl. Maijts. Allernådigste befallning. It was published by: utgifven af Joh. Nordenankar in 1790. Scale approximately 1:441,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 35N (EPSG: 32635) coordinate system. Includes six insets. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  3. Title: Stockholm, Sweden, 1771 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Grundritning ofver Stockholms stad.med Kongl. May[tts] allern ?digste privilegio utgifven ar. 1771, och underdanigst tillagnad Hans May[tt] Konung Gustaf III af Jonas Brolin, ingenieur i Kongl. Landtmaleri Cont.; graverad af Carl Bergquist och Fred. Akrel. It was published by Jonas Brolin in 1771. Scale [ca. 1:21,500]. Covers a portion of Stockholm, Sweden.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rikets Koordinatsystem 1990 (ESRI: 'RT90 25 gonV' ) 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 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.

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  4. Title: Charta öfver Stora Kopparbergs Höfdingedöme eller Dararne

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    Summary: 1 map : facsimile, color ; 56 x 58 centimeters, on sheet 65 x 65 centimeters Scale 1:460,000 General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Greenwich and Washington prime meridians. Scale approximately 1:2,100,000

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

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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. Scale approximately 1:3,000,000

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  7. Title: Karta ófver Segelleden frän Stockholm genom Gótha Kanal till Gótheborg

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.; Cover title.; Includes cross section profile and inset: Trollhä. on 3 sheets 15 x 75 centimeters or smaller, folded to 15 x 10 centimeters Scales vary. General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Karta öfver Segelleden frän Stockholm genom Götha Kanal till Götheborg

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scales vary. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Cover title. Includes cross section profile and inset: Trollhä. In Swedish. 1 map : color, dissected and encapsulated ; on 3 sheets 15 x 75 centimeters or smaller, folded to 15 x 10 centimeters Scales vary. General Map Collection

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  9. Title: The "Chevalier" commercial, pictorial and tourist map of San Francisco : from latest U.S. gov. and official surveys (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a pictorial map of San Francisco originally created in 1903. This map shows contour lines and all important buildings and public improvements are drawn in vignettes on the map. At the bottom of the map is the publisher's statement: "This Map is an Improved and Enlarged Edition of The Commercial Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco Copyrighted Dec. 1903 by August Chevalier. Similar Maps For Other Cities in the U.S. Are Being Made."The Exposition City 1915." 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.

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  10. Title: Vermont, 1857 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An improved map of Vermont : compiled from the latest authorities. It was published in 1857 by Lewis Robinson. Scale [ca. 1:450,000]. Covers also adjacent parts of New York and New Hampshire. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Vermont State Plane Coordinate System (Meters) (FIPS 4400). 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, drainage, county and town boundaries and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of distances from Montpelier and population by county and town in left margin. 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 map purposes.

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  11. Title: New Hampshire, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of New Hampshire : compiled from the latest authorities. It was published in 1849 by Lewis Robinson. Scale [ca. 1:445,000]. Covers New Hampshire and portions of Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the New Hampshire State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 2800). 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, drainage, state, county and town boundaries and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of statistics and inset: N. part of New Hampshire. 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 map purposes.

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  12. Title: Vermont, 1861 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: An improved map of Vermont : compiled from the latest authorities. It was published in 1861 by Lewis Robinson. Scale [ca. 1:450,000]. Covers also adjacent parts of New York and New Hampshire. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Vermont State Plane Coordinate System (Meters) (FIPS 4400). 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, drainage, county and town boundaries and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of distances from Montpelier and population by county and town in left margin. 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 map purposes.

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  13. Title: Poland

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Includes map key and note. 56 x 62 centimeters Scale 1:2,000,000 General Map Collection

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  14. Title: Pompeii, 1850 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pianta degli scavi di Pompei. It was published in 1850. Scale ca. 1:3,000. Map in Italian. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the WGS 1984 UTM Zone 33N (EPSG: 32633) coordinate system. All map features and collar and inset information are shown 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 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 geographies, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  15. Title: Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, 1784 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A chart of Nantucket shoals, surveyed by Paul Pinkham. Survey data was taken from 'the light house on Nantucket Point in 1784.' It was published and sold by John Norman, Feb. 10th, 1791. Scale [ca. 1:145,000]. Covers Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts and surrounding land. 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 nautical chart shows coastal features such as lighthouses, rocks, shoals, currents, channels, points, coves, harbors, islands, and more. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Land features include settlements, wind mills, and more. 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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  16. Title: Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775, Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts, (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill on the 17th of June 1775 between His Majesty's troops, under the command of Major General Howe, and the American forces. The version of the map imaged here is a 1793 facsimile of the 1775 original manuscript map by Lieut. Thomas Hyde Page, of the Engineers, who acted as aide de camp to General Howe in that action ; ground plan is from an actual survey of Captn. Montresor. The facsimile was produced for Charles Stedman's The history of the origin, progress, and termination of the American war, 1794. Scale [ca. 1:4,800]. 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows troop disposition, lines of fire, and military fortifications (redoubts, entrenchments, etc.). It also shows features such as roads, buildings, drainage, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. It includes 'References to the plans' and note. The source paper map was produced with an overlay map showing earlier stages of troop disposition; the image here is shown without the overlay. 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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  17. Title: A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River : shewing the several streets, publick buildings, docks, fort & battery, with the true form & course of the commanding grounds, with and without the town

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    Summary: Shows fortifications, buildings and fields. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to upper right corner. "Engraved from the original map by John Montresor, for D.T. Valentine's Manual for 1855 by G. Hayward, 120 Water St., N.Y." Dedication: To the Honble. Thos. Gage, Esqr., Major General and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America, and Colonel of the 22d regiment of foot, this plan is most humbly inscribd by his obedient servant, John Montresor, engineer. Includes references and note. Inset: A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the properest channel for sailing with ye banks and depths of water (scale [ca. 1:126,720]).

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  18. Title: Afrique

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; "Gravé, sur Acier, par Moisy. Ecrit par Arnoul."--lower right.; "Pl. 5"--upper left.; From an unknown larger work. 37 x 46 centimeters, on sheet 45 x 57 centimeters, folded to 45 x 29 centimeters Scale 1:25,000,000 General Map Collection

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  19. Title: George Washington's own map of the whole group of farms at Mount Vernon, drawn in 1793

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:16,500; 1 map; 37 x 53 cm. Washington, George, 1732-1799--Homes and haunts--Virginia--Mount Vernon--Maps--Facsimiles.

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  20. Title: Plan de New-York et des environs

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    Summary: Topographical map of New York City; relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. Table of references identifies primary buildings and points of interest in the city. Includes inset: Port de New-York (scale [ca. 1:140,000]).

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