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  1. Title: Map of British Columbia reduced from the original map

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    • 1868
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Forest and soil resources shown by text and shading. Wagon roads, trails and explored routes shown in British Columbia. Sketch map shows a proposed land & water communication, proposed & completed railways, fertile belt and arid country. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 38, (1868), pp. 118-28; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.38 1868 At lower right corner of map of Canada: Edwd. Weller.

  2. Title: A map of Canada compiled from the latest authorities

    • Not specified
    • 1848
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    Summary: Inset maps: Island of Montreal -- Quebec and its environs with the operations of the siege of 1759 under Wolfe -- Vicinity of the falls of Niagara -- Kingston and its environs -- Toronto and its environs.; Detailed map of both provinces of Canada with insets showing principal citiies.; Engraved by: W. & A.K. Johnston, geographers & engravers to the queen, Edinr.; Sectioned and pasted on linen and folded into untitled, black publisher's boards. 50 x 95.3 centimeters

  3. Title: Carte speciale des chemins de fer des routes et des voies navigables de la France d'apres les meilleurs documents; publie par E. Andriveau-Goujon.

    • Not specified
    • 1878
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes inset maps of Paris and Corsica. "Les chemins de fer par Alfred Potiquet". 1 map: mounted in folder; 30 x 35 in.

  4. Title: Plan von Dresden; bearbeitet vom Stadtvermessungsamte.

    • Not specified
    • 1878
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    Summary: Relief shown pictorially. 1 map: 30 x 28 cm.

  5. Title: Johnston's plan of Edinburgh & Leith in 1851

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    • 1851
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:4,873 ; approximately 13 in. to a mile. Manuscript additions showing boundaries, and property belonging to Heriot's Hospital. 1 map : color ; 124 x 160 cm.

  6. Title: Battlefield of Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia and vicinity, 1864 (Raster Image)

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    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map: Map of the battle field of Spottsylvania C.H. : showing the field of operations of the Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade U.S.A., from May 8th to 21st, 1865 [i.e. 1864], surveyed under the orders of Bvt. Col. J.C. Duane, Major of Engineers, Chief Engineer, Army of the Potomac, by Bvt. Maj. C.W. Howell, 1st Lieut. of Engineers ; assisted by Messrs. L.C. Oswell, L. Bell, and R.B. Talfor ; J. Bien, lithographer, New York. It was published ca. 1865. Scale [1:15,840]. Covers area surrounding Spotsylvania and Spotsylvania Battlefield, Virginia. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Virginia State Plane North Coordinate System (in Meters) (Fipszone 4501). 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, dwellings with names of inhabitants, vegetation, Union and Confederate troop lines and defenses, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes note. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

  7. Title: Plan af Helsingfors

    • Not specified
    • 1977
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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

  8. Title: Map of Syria in the IV-V-VI centuries

    • Not specified
    • 1920
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    Summary: From The Geographical Review, volume IX, no. 2, 1920, PL. I. 44 x 31 Centimeters

  9. Title: Map of the proposed northern route for a railroad to the Pacific

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    • 1854
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    Summary: Negative photostat from unknown source.; Engraved by: E.C. Kellogg & Co., Hartford, Conn.; Shows a variety of proposed routes for a railroad to the Pacific.; Copyright by Johnson in 1853. 51 x 80 centimeters, on sheet 58 x 91 centimeters

  10. Title: Map of India from the most recent authorities

    • Not specified
    • 1845
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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:4,138,313. 98 x 85 centimeters

  11. Title: Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography.

    • Not specified
    • 1841
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    Summary: Washington.;1 map, hand colored;26 x 43 cm.;ca. 1:3,000,000

  12. Title: Map of the southern states to illustrate Olney's school geography

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    • 1841
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Washington meridian. Probably issued in: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  13. Title: Map of Africa to illustrate Olney's school geography

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    • 1841
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress Nov. 20th 1829 by D.F. Robinson & Co. of the State of Connecticut." Map shows "The Belle Poule bound to France with the remains of Napoleon, Oct. 19, 1840." Probably issued in: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  14. Title: Map of the western states to illustrate Olney's school geography

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    • 1841
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    Summary: Longitude "West from Washington." From: Olney's school atlas. New York : Robinson, Pratt & Co., 1841.

  15. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 2

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    • 1961
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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of east-central Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 10 miles.

  16. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 5

    • Not specified
    • 1961
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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of the Granite Falls area, Minnesota, showing locations of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 1/4 mile.

  17. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 1

    • Not specified
    • 1961
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    Summary: Interpretations of bedrock geology (distribution of rock at the land surface and beneath surface sediments) of northeastern Minnesota, scale 1 inch = about 15 miles.

  18. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 3

    • Not specified
    • 1961
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    Summary: Map of the Minnesota-Ontario border region, showing location of dated samples, scale 1 inch = about 20 miles.

  19. Title: Precambrian geology and geochronology of Minnesota, Bulletin 41, Plate 4

    • Not specified
    • 1961
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    Summary: Map of western part of the Lake Superior region, Minnesota, showing location of samples that were age-dated by radioactive isotope methods, scale 1 inch = about 40 miles.

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