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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Title: Preliminary map, compiled from various surveys to illustrate the drainage basins of the commonwealth; by L. Trouvelot, artist of survey.; Alternative title: Kentucky Geological Survey 1877 preliminary map;Panel title: Drainage map: to accompany vol. III, second series, Geological Survey of Kentucky.

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    Summary: Prime Meridian: Philadelphia. Shows roads, railroads, drainage, counties and towns. "J. Mayer & Co., lith., Boston." 1 map: col.; 46 x 90 cm.

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Title: Sketch map showing surface geology about the northern shores of Lakes Huron and Michigan

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    Summary: Detached from: A geological reconnaissance along the north shore of lakes Huron and Michigan / Israel C. Russell. In Report of the State Board of Geological Survey of Michigan for the year 1904. Lansing: Wynkoop, Hallenbeck, Crawford Co., 1905.; "Annual report for 1904, plate XVI." 18 x 53 centimeters Scale approximately 1:633,600 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: Exhibit "B"

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Map detached from "Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the final report of Secretary Metcalf on the situation affecting the Japanese in the City of San Francisco, Cal.," issued as a U.S. Senate document (Serial Set 5070 S.doc.147), December 18, 1906. Shows location of "The Oriental School"; locations of "schools the Japanese pupils attended" prior to a Board of Education order of October 11, 1906, transferring them to the "Oriental School" in the burned area of the city; and residences of pupils, with the number of pupils given for each school and residence. Portion of title supplied by cataloger, derived from text on page 5 of the Senate document from which the map was extracted. Scale not given

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  12. Title: Soil map, Washington County, Indiana

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    Summary: Shows soil types classification by colors and symbols. 'Field Operations, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.' 'Litho Eastern Offset Inc., Balto.' Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile.W 86���������19���������--W 85���������51���������/N 38���������47���������--38���������25���������). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils; Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station; soils surveyed by J.T. Miller, in charge and Howard Wm. Higbee, U.S. Department of Agriculture and M.E. Waggoner, Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station.

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  13. Title: Map of the District of Columbia

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing typhoid fever statistics classified by race in each of 53 numbered districts. Also shows locations of hospitals. Notes: Oriented with north to the upper left (north arrow not shown). Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/3): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Includes index to hospitals. Scale approximately 1:24,600

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  14. Title: Map of the District of Columbia showing location of schools

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing public schools classified by race ("white schools" and "colored schools"). Notes: Relief shown by contours. Oriented with north to the upper left. Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/4): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. IV, Report on Board of Education. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. IV, Report on Board of Education. Includes notes. Scale approximately 1:22,500

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  15. Title: Map of the District of Columbia

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Washington, D.C., showing death rates classified by race in each of 53 numbered districts. Also shows locations of hospitals. Notes: Oriented with north to the upper left (north arrow not shown). Map detached from a United States House of Representatives document in the United States congressional serial set (5127 H.doc.8/3): Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1907. Series transcription from: Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the year ended June 30, 1906. Vol. III, Report of the Health Officer. Includes index to hospitals. Scale approximately 1:24,600

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