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  1. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1870

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad system of the United States in 1870. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1870. University of Nebraska Lincoln. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/tb303xn7959. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  2. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1840

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1840. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1840. University of Nebraska Lincoln. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/st852jv1039. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  3. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1850

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1850. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1850. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/yb081jb9131. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  4. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1855

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1855. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1855. University of Nebraska Lincoln. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/sg805fy3196. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  5. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1845

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1845. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1845. University of Nebraska Lincoln. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rb309fs8300. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  6. Title: Railroad System, United States, 1861

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    Summary: This line shapefile represents the railroad network of the United States in 1861. This layer is part of the Railroads and the Making of Modern America project. This project seeks to document and represent the rapid and far-reaching social effects of railroads and to explore the transformation of the United States to modern ideas, institutions, and practices in the nineteenth century. University of Nebraska. Lincoln. (2006). Railroad System, United States, 1861. University of Nebraska Lincoln. Available at: https://purl.stanford.edu/nh989wx0112. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  7. Title: Railroads and the making of modern America

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    Summary: "[This site] explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads, telegraphs, steam ships and other technologies. It concentrates on the railroad network, and explores how the railroad's expansion and development brought profound economic, social, and political changes." Title from home page (viewed June 3, 2009). This collection includes shapefile data representing railroad networks in the United States from 1840 to 1870. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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  8. Title: Tiverton, Rhode Island, 1854 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the town of Tiverton, Newport County, R.I., by Wm. G. Borden, civil engineer. It was published in 1854 by Friend & Aub. Scale [ca. 1:21,200]. Covers Tiverton, Rhode Island and a portion of Fall River, Massachusetts. 'Note: this map is partly from note furnished by H.F. Walling, civil engineer, and partly from original surveys.' The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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, drainage, selected private buildings labeled with owners' names, public buildings, churches, schools, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), cemeteries, town and school district boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes table and view of Oliver Chace's Thread Mill. 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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  9. Title: Appletons' railway map of the United States and the Canadas : representing railways in actual operation, and those in course of construction, also map of the territories, showing the Pacific Railroad, gold regions, &c.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Prime meridian: Washington, D.C.; Inset: [Western United States].; Advertisements and ancillary map: Map of Illinois Central Railway and connections, on verso. 54 x 69 centimeters

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  10. Title: Soil survey of Pennington County, Minnesota

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    Summary: At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils.; "Issued July 15, 1916." 24 centimeters

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  11. Title: Soil map : Minnesota, Goodhue County sheet

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:63,360]. 1 in. = 1 mile (W 93°03'--W 92°15'/N 44°45'--N 44°10'). In lower right margin: Field operations, Bureau of Soils, 1913. 90 x 97 centimeters

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  12. Title: Itasca State Park : showing roads trails firebreaks and cabins : prepared under direction of W.T. Cox, State Forester

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (W 95°15'--W 95°9'/N 47°15'--N 47°8'). Overprinted in red: "Building camp fires forbidden except on prepared places as indicated." 59 x 89 centimeters

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  13. Title: Canoe map of northeastern Minnesota.

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:253,440 ; 1 mile -- 1/4 in. (W 93°'--W 89°29'/N 47°3'--N 48°39'). Shows canoe routes in Superior National Forest and Burntside State Forest. "W.T. Cox, State Forester." "August, 1913." "Quadrangle No 3." 44 x 111 centimeters

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  14. Title: South & Southeast Asia, 1846 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: India and countries adjacent : to accompany Symond's Introduction to the geography of India, G.W. Mahon 1846 ; J. Sinclair, del. It was published by R. Twigg in 1847. Scale [ca. 1:8,750,000]. Covers portions of South and Southeast Asia and China. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial and administrative boundaries, shoreline features, the Great Wall of China, and more. Relief shown by hachures.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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  15. Title: Map showing routes of native explorers in Tibet and Nepal to illustrate the papers by Mr. Markham, & Lieut. Colonel T. G. Montgomerie

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes inset: Continuation of map north-west of Gartokh from the Pundit's journey of 1867. Tarjams (post houses) and camps are shown. "The Longitude is in accordance with the old value of the Madras observatory (80.°17.'21.")" From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 45 (1875), p. 299-363; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 Romanized name of Indian explorer: Nain Singh Rawat.

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  16. Title: Map showing the route survey from Nepal to Lhasa, and thence through the upper valley of the Brahmaputra, made by Pundit.______ [Paṇḍita Naina Siṃha Rāvata] from the map compiled by Capt. T.G. Montgomerie, R.E.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Routes of expedition are shown in red. "The Longitude is in accordance with the old value of the Madras observatory (80.°17.'21.")" Tarjams (post houses) and camps are shown. Boundary of the British Territory is shown. Tibetan provinces are shown. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 38, (1868), pp. 129-219; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.38 1868 Romanized name of Indian explorer: Nain Singh Rawat.

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  17. Title: Summer route from Leh (Ladak) to the city of Yarkund from Leh to the Karakoram Pass, compiled from the records of G.T. Survey of India __ from the Karakoram to Yarkund from the Journal of the Moonshee Mahamad-i-Hamid

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    Summary: Rivers, passes, and settlements along route are shown. Includes note on the winter route between the cities. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 36 (1866), pp. 157-72; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.36 1866.

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  18. Title: Michigan

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Prime meridian: Washington. Shows county names in effect from 1840 to 1843. Inset: Northwest part of Michigan. At upper right: "25.".

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  19. Title: Indiana Oolitic quadrangle : 15-minute series [1968 reprint with vegetation]

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    Summary: Topography by W.K. McKinley [and seven others]. Polyconic projection. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Contour interval 20 feet. Shows portion of Lawrence County, Indiana, as well as small portions of Martin, Green, and Monroe counties. Some copies show forest areas colored green. Surveyed in 1934-1935. Reprinted in 1960, 1964, and 1968. "Topography by W.K. McKinley, W.F. Chenault, J.O. Kilmartin, G.F. Westinghouse, Shirley Waggener, W.H. Austin, A.G. Kirk, and K.R. Garmong. Culture and drainage in part compiled from aerial photographs." "This area also covered by 1:24,000 scale maps of Oolitic, Owesnburg, Williams, and Bedford West 7.5-minute quadrangles, surveyed in 1957." "N3845--W8630/15." Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Interior--Geological Survey, 1968 Dimensions: 45 x 42 cm or smaller; Scale: 1:62,500

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  20. Title: Indiana Oolitic quadrangle : 15-minute series [1964 reprint without vegetation]

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    Summary: Topography by W.K. McKinley [and seven others]. Polyconic projection. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Contour interval 20 feet. Shows portion of Lawrence County, Indiana, as well as small portions of Martin, Green, and Monroe counties. Some copies show forest areas colored green. Surveyed in 1934-1935. Reprinted in 1960, 1964, and 1968. "Topography by W.K. McKinley, W.F. Chenault, J.O. Kilmartin, G.F. Westinghouse, Shirley Waggener, W.H. Austin, A.G. Kirk, and K.R. Garmong. Culture and drainage in part compiled from aerial photographs." "This area also covered by 1:24,000 scale maps of Oolitic, Owesnburg, Williams, and Bedford West 7.5-minute quadrangles, surveyed in 1957." "N3845--W8630/15." Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Interior--Geological Survey, 1964 Dimensions: 45 x 42 cm or smaller

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