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  1. Title: Sections to illustrate Sir J. G. Wilkinson's paper on the levels of Egypt

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    • 1839
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    Summary: Scale of diagram 4 ca. 1:5,490. Scale of section 5 ca. 1:550. Scale of section 6 ca. 1:1,210. Scale of sections 7-13 ca. 1:2,740,000. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 9 (1839), pp. 431-41; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.9 1839.

  2. Title: United States: map no. 8, 1847

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    • 1847
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    Summary: 1 map

  3. Title: Geological map of the United States, Canada, &c

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    • 1845
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    Summary: Map dated May 14, 1845.; Relief shown pictorially.; The principal authorities are Captn. R.N. Bayfield [and others]. 39 x 50 centimeters

  4. Title: A chart exhibiting the actual and comparative size of each country, nation, or kingdom : its population as a whole and to a square mile : also the different states of society, forms of government, religion &c.

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    • 1835
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    Summary: World map showing religion, government, races of men and state of society. At foot of title: O. Pelton Engraver. Possibly from: An atlas to accompany the productive geography / Roswell Chamberlain Smith. Philadelphia : W. Marshall, [1837], c1835. Includes a table of distances between the chief towns or capitals of the several states also between these towns and Washington the capital of the United States. Insets: Oceanica pop. 20m. -- New Holland.

  5. Title: Carta della Guiana

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    • 1818
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper margin: Stedman Vol. 1. In lower margin: Inc. in Milano al Pontevetre N. 2225. From: Viaggio al Surinam e nell' interno della Guiana ossia relazione di cinque anni di corse e di osservazioni fatte in questo interessante e poco conosciuto paese / dal Capitano Stedman ... Milano : Dalla tipografia di Giambattista Sonzogno, 1818.

  6. Title: Rhode Island, 1795 (Raster Image)

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    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the state of Rhode Island, taken mainly from surveys by Caleb Harris ; Harding Harris, delineavt. ; Saml. Hill, sculpt. It was published in 1795 by Carter & Wilkinson. Scale [ca. 1:160,000]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Rhode Island State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 3800). 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 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.

  7. Title: Russia in Europe with its dismemberments from Poland in 1773, 1793 and 1795

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    • 1799
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    Summary: January, 1907.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. 24 x 30 centimeters on sheet 34 x 28 centimeters

  8. Title: Poland divided into its dismembered provinces

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    • 1814
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Includes table of Prussian, Austrian and Russian dominions and year separated from Poland. On verso: 17. 49 x 60 centimeters

  9. Title: The United States of America, confirmed by treaty, 1783 : contain New England ... ; New York ... ; Virginia ... ; Carolina ... : united 4th July 1776

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    • 1806
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Probably issued in: A general atlas : being a collection of maps of the world and quarters, the principal empires, kingdoms &c. London : R. Wilkinson, 1808.

  10. Title: A new map of Europe divided into its empires, kingdoms, states &c.

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    • 1795
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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Includes table of statistics. 102 x 116 centimeters

  11. Title: Map of the northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with Michigan and that part of the Ouisconsin territory lying east of the Mississippi River

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    • 1836
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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Manuscript note: "To accompany Mr. Thomas' report no. 380, on boundary of Ohio & Michigan.".

  12. Title: Michigan

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    • 1831
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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Notes: Prime meridians: Greenwich, Washington. Relief shown by hachures.

  13. Title: A description of the Bay of Fundy : shewing y[e] coast, islands, harbours, creeks, coves, rocks & sholes, soundings & anchorings &c.

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    • 1729
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    Summary: Covers part of North America and New Scotland (i.e., Nova Scotia).; Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings.; Inset: The Harbour of Annapolis Royal by Nathaniel Blackmore Esq[r].; Appears in: Atlas minor;or, A set of sixty-two new and correct maps of all the parts of the world / all composed and done by Herman Moll. London : 1729. 21 x 44 centimeters

  14. Title: North America.

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    • 1804
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    Summary: Henry Stevens and Roland Tree, Comparative cartography, exemplified in an analytical & bibliographical description of nearly one hundred maps and charts of the American continent published in Great Britain during the years 1600 to 1850, no. 62a.; Greenwich, Ferro.;Relief shown by hachures.;1 map, hand colored;51 x 61 cm.;ca. 1:9,000,000

  15. Title: New York, 1831 (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A reference & distance map of the state of New York. It was published by J. Pierce in 1831. Scale [ca. 1:1,300,000]. Covers also a portion of Ontario, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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 roads, drainage, cities and towns, counties, and more. Includes inset elevation profiles: Profile of the Erie Canal -- [Profile of the Champlain Canal]. Includes index of places, table of distances, and 1830 census populations of towns and counties in New York, in lower margin. 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.

  16. Title: New York Bay and Harbor, and vicinity, 1844 (Image 1 of 6) (Raster Image)

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    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : sheet no. 1, founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard and T.A. Jenkins assists. It was published by Survey of the Coast of the United States in 1844-1845. Scale 1:30,000. This layer is image 1 of 6 total images of the six sheet source map, representing the southwest portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, drainage, land cover, forts, selected buildings, towns, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text, table of currents and stations, notes, sailing directions, 4 coastal panoramas and 2 views of Sandy Hook Light. 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.

  17. Title: New York Bay and Harbor, and vicinity, 1844 (Image 4 of 6) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : sheet no. 4, founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard and T.A. Jenkins assists. It was published by Survey of the Coast of the United States in 1844-1845. Scale 1:30,000. This layer is image 4 of 6 total images of the six sheet source map, representing the southwest portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, drainage, land cover, forts, selected buildings, towns, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text, table of currents and stations, notes, sailing directions, 4 coastal panoramas and 2 views of Sandy Hook Light. 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.

  18. Title: New York Bay and Harbor, and vicinity, 1844 (Image 5 of 6) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : sheet no. 5, founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard and T.A. Jenkins assists. It was published by Survey of the Coast of the United States in 1844-1845. Scale 1:30,000. This layer is image 5 of 6 total images of the six sheet source map, representing the southwest portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, drainage, land cover, forts, selected buildings, towns, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text, table of currents and stations, notes, sailing directions, 4 coastal panoramas and 2 views of Sandy Hook Light. 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.

  19. Title: New York Bay and Harbor, and vicinity, 1844 (Image 2 of 6) (Raster Image)

    • Raster data
    • 2007
    Contributors:

    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs : sheet no. 2, founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard and T.A. Jenkins assists. It was published by Survey of the Coast of the United States in 1844-1845. Scale 1:30,000. This layer is image 2 of 6 total images of the six sheet source map, representing the southeast portion of the map. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 18N NAD83 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, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows coastal features such as lighthouses, buoys, beacons, rocks, channels, points, coves, islands, bottom soil types, wharves, and more. Includes also selected land features such as roads, drainage, land cover, forts, selected buildings, towns, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Depths are shown by soundings and shading. Includes text, table of currents and stations, notes, sailing directions, 4 coastal panoramas and 2 views of Sandy Hook Light. 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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