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  1. Title: Lower Manhattan, New York, N.Y., 1792 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of the city of New York, Tiebout, sculpt. It was published by T. & J. Swords for the New-York directory, and register, for the year 1792. Scale [ca. 1:12,500]. Covers lower Manhattan and portions of Brooklyn. 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, selected public buildings, selected private buildings with names of property owners, ferry lines, wharves, and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Includes index 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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  2. Title: Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1910 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-plan Frankfurt A/M, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag in 1910. Scale 1:10,200. Covers Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) Gauss Kruger Zone 3, Rauenberg Datum' 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, street car lines, railroads and stations, drainage, canals, built-up areas and selected buildings, ground cover, parks, and more. Relief shown pictorially. 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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  3. Title: Nuremberg, Germany, 1902 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-Plan Nurnberg, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag ca. [1902]. Scale 1:8,400. Covers Nuremberg, Germany. Map in German. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 4 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, railroads and stations, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings pictorially, parks, 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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  4. Title: Dresden, Germany, ca. 1910 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Pharus-Plan Dresden, Urheber der Pharus-Plane, Corn. Loewe. It was published by Pharus-Verlag, ca. 1910. Scale 1:11,700. Map in Germany. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Deutsches Hauptdreiecksnetz (DHDN) 3-degree Gauss-Kruger Zone 5 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, railroads and stations, drainage, selected buildings, ground cover, parks, and more. Includes inset: Fortsetzung siehe Hauptkarte. 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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  5. Title: Pharus-Plan Wiesbaden

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    Summary: Pictorial map of Wiesbaden in the German state of Hesse. Includes col. ill.

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  6. Title: Land caerte van 't Verenigde Nederland, met 't gene daer onderhoort, verdeelt in syn provincien, en minder verdelingen

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    Summary: Map of Netherlands with relief shown pictorially. Title above neat line: Belgii pars septentrionalis communi nomine vulgo Hollandia : nuncupata continens statum potentissimæ Batavorum Reipublicæ seu provincias VII. foederatas : cum omnium provinciarum insignibus, additis omnibus nominibus urbium et pagorum / edidit Cornelius Kribber. Insets: Batavorum coloniæ Occident. Indiis Septentrionalis Americæ implantatæ -- India Orientalis Batavorum commerciis potentià & coloniis celeberrima. Includes views of New Amsterdam and Batavia.

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  7. Title: [New Jersey.] Topographic series. Sheet 22.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  8. Title: [New Jersey.] Topographic series. Sheet 36.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  9. Title: [New Jersey.] Topographic series. Sheet 27.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  10. Title: [New Jersey.] Topographic series. Sheet 25.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  11. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 31.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  12. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 25.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  13. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 22.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  14. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 24.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  15. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 26.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  16. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 27.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  17. Title: [New Jersey.] Atlas sheet no. 28.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  18. Title: A topographical map of Kittatinny Valley and Mountain in Sussex County and the northern part of Warren. (1894)

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    Summary: Geological Survey of New Jersey. Atlas Sheet 1 (Kittatinny) (1894) New Jersey Geological Survey. "From original surveys and levelings based on the triangulation of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey." Relief shown by 20 ft. contour interval and spot heights. At top margin: Geological Survey of New Jersey - atlas sheet no. 1 (Kittatinny). Surveys made in 1884, railroads revised to date. 1894

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  19. Title: A topographical map of the vicinity of Trenton, New Brunswick and Bordentown.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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  20. Title: A topographical map of the counties of Bergen, Hudson and Essex, with parts of Passaic and Union.

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    Summary: A scanned historical New Jersey Geological Survey Atlas Sheet shown at a scale of 1:63,360.

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