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  1. Title: Map of the Mississippi River from the falls of St. Anthony to the junction of the Illinois River

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: 1 in. to 1 mile. Title from title sheet. "N. Peters, photo-lithographer, Washington, D.C." Includes index sheet. Relief shown pictorially. 38 x 60 centimeters 1:63,360 General Minnesota Maps

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  2. Title: Territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : originally prepared to accompany the reports of the explorations for a Pacific railroad route : made in accordance with the 10th. and 11th. sections of the Army Appropriation, Act of March 3rd. 1853

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. At head of title: Head Quarters Corps of Engineers. War Department. Shows routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes list of "Authorities" and inset "The territory of north western America ceded by Russia to the United States, 1868" (scale 1:9,000,000).

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  3. Title: Map of Nebraska and Dakota and portions of the states and territories bordering thereon; compiled by G. K. Warren.

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    Summary: March, 1867. 1 map: dissected and mounted on cloth; 108 x 80 cm

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  4. Title: Military map of Nebraska and Dakota

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    Summary: Issued with Warren's "Preliminary report of explorations in Nebraska and Dakota in the years 1855-'56-'57," originally printed in the appendixes to the Report of the Secretary of War, in the President's message and documents, Dec., 1858. "35th Congress, 1st Session. Printed by order of the U.S. Senate." "Explorations & surveys, War Dept., Hon. John B. Floyd, Secy. of War." Relief shown by hachures and spot elevations. Map shows routes of 20 exploration or survey parties. 118 x 84 centimeters Scale 1:1,200,000 General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route; Compiled from authorized explorations and other reliable data by G. K. Warren ... under the direction of W. H. Emory in 1854 and of A. A. Humphreys 1854-5-6-7-8. Drawn by E. Freyhold. Engr. on stone by J. Bien.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Includes "Authorities." Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. 1 map: mounted on chartex; 105 x 115 cm, folded to 23 x 15 cm

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  6. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean : ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route : made in accordance with the 10th & 11th sections of the Army Appropriation Act of March 3rd 1853

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys.; Includes "Authorities."; "Note" states it is updated to May 1, 1857. 103 x 114 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys.Includes Authorities.Note states it is updated to May 1, 1857. 103 x 114 cm Scale approximately 1:3,200,000 General Map Collection

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  8. Title: Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff'n Davis, Secretary of War to accompany the reports of the explorations for a railroad route

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Includes "Note" and "Authorities." Historic Maps copy 1 on 2 sheets designed to be joined together; uncolored. Historic Maps copy 2 dissected in 16 pieces, mounted on cloth.

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  9. Title: Section of map compiled in P.R.R. Office with additions designed to illustrate Lt. Warrens report of military reconnaissances in the Dacota Country 1855

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Shows route of government explorations from 1820 to 1855. 39 x 49 centimeters Scale 1:3,000,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Map of routes for a Pacific railroad

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Appears in the U.S. War Dept.'s Report of the Secretary of War on the several Pacific railroad explorations, 1855. "This is a hurried compilation of all the authentic surveys and is designed to exhibit the relations of the different routes to each other. An elaborate map on scale of 1:3,000,000 is being compiled and is in an advanced state."

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  11. Title: London, England, 1877 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Illustrated map of London, or, Stranger's guide to the public buildings, theatres, music halls, & all places of interest. It was published by George H. Young in 1877. Scale [ca. 1:13,700]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the British National Grid coordinate system (British National Grid, Airy Spheroid OSGB (1936) Datum). 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, selected buildings, and more. Selected points of interest and 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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  12. Title: Sketch map of central and southern Africa : showing the main lines of migration followed by the various races now inhabiting the southern portion of the continent

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    Summary: Relief shown by shading. From: The native races of South Africa ... / By George W. Stow ... London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited ... , 1905.

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  13. Title: Framingham, Massachusetts, 1832 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Framingham : from actual surveys taken by Jonas Clayes & Warren Nixon in the years 1830 and 1831, drawn by Warren Nixon. It was published by Pendleton's Lithography in 1832. Scale [19,800]. Covers also a portion of Ashland, 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). 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 boundaries and more. Relief shown by shading.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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  14. Title: Connecticut, 1811 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Connecticut : from actual survey, made in 1811 by and under the direction of Moses Warren and George Gillet, and by them compiled. It was published in 1813 by Hudson & Goodwin. Scale [1:160,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Connecticut State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 0600). 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, county and town boundaries, public buildings, mills, factories, mines, and more. Relief shown by hachures. 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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  15. Title: Bacon's new large scale atlas of London and suburbs : with additional road maps of the home counties and a series of seventeen special maps showing the different areas controlled by government departments, local authorities, and supply companies having statutary powers in and around the City and County of London.

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    Summary: Cover title: Bacon's atlas of London and suburbs. Includes index. New enl. and improved ed.. 1 atlas (xxv, 34p., 46 double leaves) : color maps ; 36 cm. Historical Atlases

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  16. Title: Map of the country twenty miles round Wells : taken from Bacon's county map of Somersetshire, for F. George's, Swan Hotel, visitors' guide

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Advertisements on verso. Includes illustration of Wells Cathedral. Probably issued in: The Swan Hotel visitors' guide to Wells. Rev. ed. Bath : W. Lewis, 1880.

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  17. Title: Map of the route from Badakshan across the Pamir-Steppe to Kashgar, with the southern branch of the Upper Oxus from the survey made by the Mirza in 1868-69, to accompany the paper by Major T. G. Montgomerie, R.E.; F.R.G.S.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Major mountain ranges are shown. The Mirza's route shown in red. From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 41 (1871), pp. 132-93; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687

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  18. Title: Map of the French, English, and Spanish possessions in North America in 1745.

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    Summary: Scale not given; 1 map: color; 20 x 22 cm North America--Maps

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  19. Title: Simple Bouguer gravity map of Minnesota, Brainerd sheet, M-40

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    Summary: Bouguer gravity anomaly map (anomaly related to different densities of rocks in the upper crust, Bouguer anomaly is a corrected difference between an observed gravity measurement and value predicted from a generalized earth model), shown as contour lines (isolines) of equal value, Brainerd quadrangle, scale 1:250,000.

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  20. Title: Subcrop and thickness of Sauk sequence Knox uniformity to Precambrian

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    Summary: Scale 1:500 000. by Warren L. Calvert. Includes legend.

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