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  1. Title: Washington Post Locations of Unsolved Homicides in the US, 2008-2018

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    Summary: This point shapefile represents locations of more than 52,000 criminal homicides between the years 2008-2018 (approximately) in 50 of the largest American cities. The data includes the location of the killing, whether an arrest was made and, in most cases, basic demographic information about each victim. Reporters from the Washington Post received data in many formats, including paper, and worked for months to clean and standardize it, comparing homicide counts and aggregate closure rates with FBI data to ensure the records were as accurate as possible. In some cases, departments provided only partial information about the homicides, so reporters consulted public records, including death certificates, court records and medical examiner reports, to fill in the gaps. The data is more specific than the federal homicide data gathered annually by the FBI from police agencies nationwide. The Post mapped each homicide, identifying arrest rates by geography in each city, sharing the analysis with the local police department prior to publication. This data was downloaded at the date of the data release and converted into a shapefile by NYU Data Services. The original data is available at: https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-homicides/.

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  2. Title: [United States Relief Map, 1899]

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    Summary: 1 map ; 53 x 81 cm Relief shown by hypsometric tints and contours.

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  3. Title: Linguistic stocks of American Indians north of Mexico

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    Summary: 1 map : col. ; 51 x 43 cm Includes inset of the Aleutian Islands. Bureau of ethnology. Seventh annual report, plate I.

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  4. Title: Geological map of the Black Hills of Dakota

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    Summary: 1 in. = 4 miles. (W 104°45ʹ--W 102°15ʹ/N 44°45ʹ--N 43°30ʹ). Relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. "Field work 1875. Publication 1879." "Geology of the Black Hills by Henry Newton, E.M."--Upper right margin. 75 x 89 centimeters Scale [1:253,440] 1 inch = 4 miles General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Map of the United States

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    Summary: 1 map : col., mounted on cloth ; 49 x 71 cm "Julius Bien, Lithographer." "The base chart was engraved for the Statistical Atlas of the United States." "To accompany report on the lands of the arid region of the U.S." "For explanation see chapter on "Land Grants in aid of Internal Improvements."

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  6. Title: Map showing the distribution of the Indian tribes of Washington Territory

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region J.W. Powell in charge." From: Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. 1. 1 map: col., mounted on cloth; 50 x 39 cm

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  7. Title: Green River from the Union Pacific Rail Road to the Mouth of White River. 1873.; Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Second Division, J.W. Powell in charge.

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    Summary: From Atlas accompanying the report on the geology of a portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto by J.W. Powell, Geologist in charge 1876. Julius Bien Lith. Department of the Interior, U.S. Relief shown by form lines. 1 map; 73 x 47 cm.

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