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  1. Title: New Orleans, Louisiana, 1849 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of New Orleans, drawn and eng.d by W. Williams. It was published by W. Williams in 1849. Scale [ca. 1:31,680]. Covers also an adjacent portion of Jefferson Parish. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Louisiana State Plane Coordinate System, South NAD83 (in Feet) (Fipszone 1702). 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, railroads, canals, levees, drainage, selected public and industrial buildings, cemeteries, city municipality and Parish boundaries, and more. Includes a list of references. 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: Map of North America showing its political divisions and recent discoveries in the polar regions; constructed and engraved by W. Williams, Philadelphia.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Shows major cities, political divisions including Russian America, Danish America, British America, and Central America. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania". Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From: Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps Of The Various Countries Of The World, Plans Of Cities, Etc. In right upper margin: 3. 1 map: col.; 31 x 26 cm.

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  3. Title: A new map of the United States : upon which are delineated its vast works of internal communication, routes across the continent &c., showing also Canada and the island of Cuba

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    Summary: Compiled, drawn & engraved by W. Williams, practical geographer and engraver, Philadelphia.; Insets: Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah &c. -- Map of the island of Cuba -- City & harbor of Havana -- Map of the Niagara River and Falls.; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C.; Removed from: Baldwin, Thomas. A new and complete gazetteer of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1854. 60 x 72 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,300,000; Scale approximately 1:9,500,000 General Map Collection

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  4. Title: Map of the Western States : engraved to accompany Appleton's traveller's guide.

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    Summary: Longitude given on top of map is from Greenwich; given on bottom of map is from Washington. Removed from: Williams, Wellington. Appleton's southern and western travellers' guide. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850. 31 x 43 centimeters Scale [1:3,168,000] General Map Collection

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  5. Title: Map of the southern and south-western states : engraved to accompany Appleton's traveller's guide

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    Summary: Entered according to Act of Congress, 1849, by W. Williams in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania.; Removed from: Appleton's southern and western travellers' guide / W. Williams (New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1850, c1849).; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.; Insets: Map of the state of Texas -- Map of eastern Virginia &c. 30 x 44 centimeters Scale approximately 1:4,130,000 General Map Collection

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  6. Title: Map of the Mississippi R : from the Falls of St. Anthony to St. Louis [and] from St. Louis to Memphis

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    Summary: Shows river, neighboring states, and selected cities, roads, and rail lines. 20 x 16 centimeters Scale not given. General Map Collection

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  7. Title: Plan of Charleston S.C.

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    Summary: At head of title: No. 44. References : [Directory of points of interest lower left corner]. Removed from: Williams, Wellington. Appleton's southern and western travellers' guide. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850. 22 x 20 centimeters Scale not indicated. City Maps

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  8. Title: Plan of Cincinnati and vicinity

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    Summary: "Entered according to Act of Congress ... 1849 by W. Williams ... Pennsylvania." Indexed. At head of title: No. 34. Removed from: Williams, Wellington. Appleton's southern and western travellers' guide. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850. 21 x 21 centimeters Scale approximately 1:27,000 City Maps

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  9. Title: Plan of New Orleans

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    Summary: Covers also a portion of Layfayette. Shows names of streets, number of municipalities, drainage, and other points of interest. North oriented to the right. Includes list of references. Removed from: Williams, Wellington. Appleton's southern and western travellers' guide. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850. 18 x 20 centimeters Scale approximately 1:31,680 City Maps

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  10. Title: New Haven, Connecticut, 1898 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: The Price & Lee Co's. new map of the city of New Haven, surveyed by S.W. Searle, surveyor and civil engineer, and drawn by him expressly for their new city directory. It was published by Price & Lee Co., 1898. Scale [1:14,400]. Covers also portions of Woodbridge, Hamden, North Haven, East Haven, and West Haven. 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, railroads, drainage, selected public buildings, cemeteries, parks, city ward boundaries, radial distances from City Hall, and more. Relief is 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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  11. Title: Trade routes and distances by existing lines and by the Panama Canal

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    Summary: Shows routes for full powered steam vessels, routes for sailing vessels, and distances in nautical miles. "62d Cong., 2d Sess." "Authority, U.S. hydrographic chart no. 1262."

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  12. Title: Survey of the Mississippi River : Lake Itasca basin, Minnesota, within Itasca State Park

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:15,000 ; Trigonometrical projection ; (W 95°15'20"--W 95°09'00"/N 47°15'00"--N 47°08'10"). Relief shown by contours. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to right. " ... Topography by W.G. Comber, G.H. French and F.G. Ray. Hydrography by W.G. Comber. Office reduction, under the direction of C.W. Clark ... by A.T. Morrow, W.G. Comber, G.H. French, E.L. Harman, W.S. Williams, F.G. Ray, and Geo. H. Wolbrecht. Drawing, under the direction of C.W. Clark ... by K.A. Widen and H.A.H. d'Ailly." Includes text. 57 x 92 centimeters 1:15,000 General Minnesota Maps

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  13. Title: Geological Map of the Trap Range of Keweenaw Point Lake Superior

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    Summary: 1 map : color ; 50.2 x 130 cm Shows geological features by color. Section displays geological strata. Sectioned and affixed to linen.

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  14. Title: Total intensity aeromagnetic map of St. Joseph County, Indiana: relative to arbitrary datum

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    Summary: Includes text and location map. Scale approximately 1:64,000.

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  15. Title: Reidel's pocket map of Fort Wayne, Indiana

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    Summary: Includes distance circles and street index. Scale 1:15,400.

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  16. Title: Shelbyville, Indiana.

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    Summary: Blue line.; Cadastral map.; Includes 4 insets. Scale approximately 1:24,000. 1 inch = 200 feet.

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  17. Title: Connecticut.

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    Summary: Scale approximately 1:500,000; 1 map: color; 26 x 34 cm Connecticut--Maps

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  18. Title: Indiana

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    Summary: Shows bank towns, county boundaries, and railroads. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Includes index to counties. On verso: explanation of bank towns including index to railroads and express companies and advertisement for the Capital National Bank. Scale approximately 1:1,500,000 By J.W. White.

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  19. Title: Chart showing increase and decrease of the population of the United States, area, debt, and other statistics of the eleventh census

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    Summary: 1 map : col., encapsulated in Mylar ; 49 x 77 cm Shows percent increase by state for periods 1850-1860, 1860-1870, 1870-1880, and 1880-1890. Includes text, table showing increase for selected cities, and tables showing population, United States, 1800-1890, settled areas in sq. miles, and public debt in dollars. Issued folded in pocket in back cover.

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  20. Title: Map of the United States' lead mines on the upper Mississippi River

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    Summary: 5084 and 5160;Covers southwestern Wisconsin and northwestern Illinois.;Duplicate copy (facsimile), detached from Wisconsin Historical Collections 11 (1888) between p. 400-401 [F902.981 v. 11], and shelved as map2FoG4122.S68H2 1829 C45 1888.; 4102.N61H2 1829 C45;MMC 6-2092 and 6-2095.;1 map, hand colored;38 x 45 cm.

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