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  1. Title: Denver, Colorado, 1882 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Guide map to the city of Denver, Colorado, engraved by the Mills Engraving Co. It was published by W.H. Lawrence & Co. in 1882. Scale [ca. 1:24,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the HARN State Plane Colorado Central Zone NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Feet) (Fipszone 0502). 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, selected names of landowners, parks, cemeteries, and more. Includes index. 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: Photos of Artwork of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Soho, New York City, 2020

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    Summary: This point shapefile represents locations of street art, graffiti, murals, and other scenes of the Black Lives Matter movement that took place in Soho, New York City in early-June, 2020. The images were captured in the days following the murder of George Floyd, who was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis, MN on May 25, 2020. Many images depict shuttered storefronts with graffiti, murals, and artwork that expresses a celebration of Black life and outrage for the violence and brutality Black people have experienced at the hands of the police. This shapefile contains URL references to the images, and the images can be downloaded by accessing the preservation record. See the documentation for a codebook and links to the NYU Data Services Black Lives Matter page, with associated teaching resources, including an ESRI StoryMap and related socio-demographic data.

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  3. Title: Random Sample of Registered Voters for New York State, 2019

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    Summary: This point shapefile represents locations of registered voters in New York State as of February 27, 2019 and includes a range of variables, including voter registration, preference, participation, demographic attributes, and more. This file is a random sample of the 11 million-plus registered voters in New York state and is meant to provide context for the layout and contents of the L2 Political Academic Voter File, which NYU Libraries licenses. Note that identifying information from the original file has been suppressed, and the location of the voters has been jittered to protect the identity of each person. NYU students, faculty, and staff who are interested in accessing L2 Political’s voter file in its original form should visit https://guides.nyu.edu/l2political or reference the documentation. Also note that many variables on consumer preferences, ethinic identity, religious affiliation, and language have been modeled and inserted into the Data by L2 Political; users are advised to consult the documentation for methodology. This file is intended to facilitate discovery and provide context for users. It was sampled, cleaned, and formatted by staff at NYU Data Services.

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  4. Title: Brookfield, North Brookfield, West Brookfield, & East Brookfield, Massachusetts, 1855 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the towns of Brookfield, North Brookfield, West Brookfield, Worcester County, Mass, surveyed & drawn by L. Fagan. It was published by Richard Clark in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:21,120]. Covers the towns of Brookfield, East Brookfield, North Brookfield, and West Brookfield, Massachusetts. 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) 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, drainage, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), selected private buildings with names of property owners, town boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also town center insets and selected building illustrations.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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  5. Title: Hubbardston, Massachusetts, 1855 (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 Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusetts. It was published by Richard Clark in 1855. Scale [ca. 1:18,100]. 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) 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, public buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, industry locations (e.g. mills, factories, mines, etc.), private buildings with names of property owners, town and district boundaries, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes 11 vignettes of local buildings and inset of town center with building footprints.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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  6. Title: Eastern Virginia, ca. 1862 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of a part of Eastern Virginia : including portions of Spotsylvania Co. and adjoining counties, compiled under the direction of Col. J.N. Macomb, A.D.C. Maj. Top'l. Engr. ; by Capt. W.H. Paine, A.D.C. It was published by Coast Survey Office ca. 1862. Scale [ca. 1:63,360]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Virginia North State Plane NAD 1983 (Fipszone 4501) 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, roads, railroads, selected buildings with names of landowners, ground cover, 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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  7. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1874 (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 Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in 1874. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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, drainage, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, wharves, ferry routes, 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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  8. Title: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey, 1886 (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 Philadelphia and Camden, drawn and engraved by W.H. Gamble. It was published by Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. in 1886. Scale [ca.1:25,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Pennsylvania South State Plane Coordinate System NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 3702). 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, drainage, selected public buildings, city wards, parks, cemeteries, ferry routes, wharves, 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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  9. Title: Base map of Monroe County, Indiana

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    Summary: Blue line map. 'May 1, 1951, revised January 1, 1968.' Shows township and range numbers, section boundaries without numbers, State and National Forest boundaries, and city and town boundaries. Scale approximately 1:63,360. 1 inch to 1 mile.; Polyconic projection Compiled by W.H. Moran and A.J. Heisterkamp; Indiana Department of Conservation, Geological Survey.

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  10. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Shows Minnesota counties as of 1879, cities and towns, railroads, and natural features.; At base of map: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."; In upper right corner: 81.; Probably detached from an atlas in which the map occupies plate no. 81.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. 32 x 28 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  11. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Shows county boundaries as of 1873.; Probably detached from an atlas by Samuel Augustus Mitchell, no. 81.; Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington.; Hand colored. 36 x 30 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  12. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Shows Minnesota counties as of 1873, cities and towns, railroads, and natural features.; At base of map: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."; In upper right corner: 81.; Probably detached from an atlas in which the map occupies plate no. 81.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. 32 x 28 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  13. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.; Shows Minnesota counties as of 1873, cities and towns, railroads, and natural features.; At base of map: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1875 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."; In upper right corner: 77.; Probably detached from an atlas in which the map occupies plate no. 77.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. 32 x 28 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  14. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: 32 x 28 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000. General Minnesota Maps

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  15. Title: County map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1871

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    Summary: 1 color map 33 x 26 cm Scale [ca. 1:2,661,120] W 97°--W 89°/N 44°--N 36°

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  16. Title: County map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1872

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    Summary: 1 color map 32 x 25 cm Scale [ca. 1:2,661,120] W 97°--W 89°/N 44°--N 36°

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  17. Title: County map of Utah and Nevada

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 187- by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Atlas page number in lower right corner: 55. Prime meridians: Washington, D.C. and Greenwich.

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  18. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Shows county boundaries as of 1860?; From: Mitchell's new general atlas / Samuel Augustus Mitchell. 1863. pl. 42.; Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington.; Hand colored. 36 x 30 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  19. Title: County map of the states of Iowa and Missouri, 1860

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    Summary: 1 color map 33 x 26 cm Scale [ca. 1:2,661,120] W 97°--W 89°/N 44°--N 36°

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  20. Title: Carlton County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Date from text.; Includes text and ancillary map: Popular drives near Carlton and Cloquet.; On verso: advertisements and ancillary map: Condition map of Minnesota trunk highways / Minnesota Dept. of Highways. 24 x 38 centimeters, on sheet 62 x 46 centimeters Scale not given Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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