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  1. Title: Northeastern United States, 1799 : showing township grants and land purchases in New York (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the middle states of North America : shewing the position of the Geneseo country comprehending the counties of Ontario & Steuben as laid off in townships of six miles squar[e] each, Maverick, sculpt. It was printed by T. & J. Swords for Charles Williamson's Description of the settlement of the Genesee country, in the state of New-York, 1799. Scale [ca. 1:2,250,000]. Partial cadastral map showing large land purchases and township grants in New York State. Covers New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and portions of Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. 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, major cities and towns, land purchases, township grants, state boundaries, and more. Includes key to 'principal villages in Ontario & Steuben counties.' 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: Liverpool, England, 1766 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A plan of Liverpool : with the docks, Williamson, Liverpool, print. It was sold at R. Williamson's shop ... in 1766. Scale [ca. 1:6,650]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'British National Grid' coordinate system. 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, built-up areas and selected buildings and industry, cemeteries, parks, docks, wharves, ground cover, and more. Includes also text below map describing the town, including markets, members of parliament &c.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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  3. Title: State of Michigan compiled from the official records of the General Land Office and other sources by C. Roser, principal draughtsman G.L.O.

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    Summary: At head of title: Department of the Interior. General Land Office. J.A. Williamson, Commissioner. Greenwich and Washington prime meridians. 1 map: col.; 75 x 63 cm.

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  4. Title: Zoshu kaisei Sesshu Osaka chizu : zen / Okada Gyokuzan shazu; Ooka Shoken teisei; Soshii hosei; Akamatsu Zeno kosei. Bunka 3 [1806] (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced image of a map of Osaka from 1806. The original map is a woodblock print oriented with north to the left. Includes legend, distance chart and text. In Japanese. Because Google Earth enables correlation of historic with contemporary sites, the version of this map that appears in Google Earth has the names of a few areas removed to protect the privacy of cultural groups. The unaltered historic map can be seen from the link above. This historical cartographic image is part of the Japanese Map Collection of the UC Berkeley East Asian Library. The historic map layers in the Google Earth Rumsey Map Collection have been selected by David Rumsey from his large collection of historical maps, as well as some from other collections with which he collaborates. All the maps contain rich information about the past and represent a sampling of time periods, scales, and cartographic art, resulting in visual history stories that only old maps can tell. Each map has been georeferenced by Rumsey, thus creating unique digital map images that allow the old maps to appear in their correct places on the modern globe. Some of the maps fit perfectly in their modern spaces, while othersgenerally earlier period mapsreveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time. Cultural features on the maps can be compared to the modern satellite views using the slider bars to adjust transparency. The result is an exploration of time as well as space, a marriage of historic cartographic masterpieces with innovative contemporary software tools.

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  5. Title: Map of Stearns County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:57,000. Facsimile: location of original and date of reproduction unknown. Scale of original [1:45,258], engraved by William Bracher and printed by F. Bourquin, Philadelphia, hand colored by C. Kaufmann and mounted by Smith & Stroup. Summary: Shows land ownership. 1 map on 2 sheets; east sheet and west sheet. 101 x 160 centimeters Scale approximately 1:57,000 Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  6. Title: Maine, 1795 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: A map of the district of Maine : drawn from the latest surveys and other best authorities, by Osgood Carleton. It was published in 1795 by Thomas & Andrews in Judge Sullivan's History of the district of Maine. Scale [ca. 1:1,170,000]. Covers also portions of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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 cities and towns, drainage, land grant, town, county, state, and national boundaries and more. Relief is shown by hachures. Inset: [Southeastern Maine]. Scale [ca. 1:337,920]. Includes references to land grants. 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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  7. Title: A corrected chart of part of the Persian Gulph

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale not given (E 53°05'00"--E 57°09'00"/N 27°19'00"--N 25°04'00"). Nautical chart of the Strait of Hormuz showing depth soundings. Includes inset map of Muscat coastline. 28 x 46 centimeters Scale not given. Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  8. Title: PLAN of MUSCAT COVE and MUTRAH HARBOUR : Surveyed in 1785

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:21 000 (E 58°33'13"--E 58°38'42"/N 23°39'03"--N 23°36'06"). Oriented with west at the top. Nautical chart of Muscat Cove and Mutrah Harbour, showing depth soundings; bearings from fixed points listed below title. Includes inset 'View of MUTRAH from 20 fathoms on the Plan B'. 30 x 39 centimeters Scale approximately 1:21 000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  9. Title: A chart of the Northern part of the bay of Bengal

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    Summary: Nautical map of northern part of Bengal Bay showing locations and depth by soundings.; Includes notes on tides, high water levels and soundings.; East longitude from Greenwich.; "Published according to Act of Parliament the 15th September by Alexander Dalrymple, 1772." 47 x 61 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  10. Title: A mar [sic] of part of Borneo and the Sooloo Archipelago : laid down chiefly from observations made in 1761, 2, 3, and 4

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. "In testimony of respect, gratitude and affection, to the right Honourable George Lord Pigot ... this map engraved at his expence, is inscribed by ... Alexander Dalrymple." In upper right margin: 54.

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  11. Title: Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika.

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    Summary: Ferro.;Relief shown by hachures.;1 map, colored;18 x 21 cm.;ca. 1:13,500,000

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  12. Title: Tabula peculiaris regionum, quas Apostoli perlustrarunt, et celebriorum locorum, in quibus Euangeliu[m] praedicarunt

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    Summary: Map of the Mediterranean Region showing the travels of the Apostles. Relief shown pictorially. Copperplate. From: Calmet, Augustin Antoine. Dictionarium historicum ... Sacrae Scripturae, Venezia, Sebastian Coleti, 1726, Vol. I, p.69.

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  13. Title: Carta geografica de Africa. del Capo de bon Esperanze sino al Regno et Imperio Monamotapo e Rio de la Goa, Scoperto dell' Citadino e Commandante (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of an historic regional map of Southern Africa originally created by Almorò Alvise Pisani in 1793. This map contains an inset of Port Natal. 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 was scanned and georeferenced by the Stanford University Geospatial Center using a Transverse Mercator projection. This map is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Africa held at Stanford University Libraries. This historic paper map provides an historical perspective of the cultural and physical landscape during this time period. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography. As this map has been georeferenced, it also can be used as a background layer in conjunction with other GIS data. The horizontal positional accuracy of a raster image is approximately the same as the accuracy of the published source map. The lack of a greater accuracy is largely the result of the inaccuracies with the original measurements and possible distortions in the original paper map document. There may also be errors introduced during the digitizing and georeferencing process. In most cases, however, errors in the raster image are small compared with sources of error in the original map graphic. Pisani, Almorò Alvise and Stanford Geospatial Center. (2013). Carta geografica de Africa. del Capo de bon Esperanze sino al Regno et Imperio Monamotapo e Rio de la Goa, Scoperto dell' Citadino e Commandante (Raster Image). Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/ts913kd3517. For more information about Stanford's Maps of Africa Collection, see here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/maps-of-africa. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

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  14. Title: Algeria, 1846 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte de l'Algerie : divisee par tribus, par mm. E. Carette et Augte. Warnier, membres de la Commission Scientifique de l'Algerie. It was published by Institut geographique national in 1846. Scale 1:1,000,000. Covers northern part of Algeria and portions of Tunisia and Morocco. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic coordinate system. 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 drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads adn routes, administrative and territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Includes notes on native populations and inset of Mediterranean Sea region. 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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  15. Title: Maine, 1836 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Maine : constructed from the most correct surveys, with sectional distances and elevations, or level, of the St. Croix River from Calais Bridge, deduced from the states survey, made by W. Anson, civil engineer, in 1836. Engraved & published in 1837 by S.H. Colesworthy. Scale [ca. 1:925,000]. Covers Maine and portions of New Hampshire, the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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 drainage; land grant, town, county, state, and national boundaries, and more. 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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  16. Title: Boundary lines between northern New England states and Canada, 1843 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the boundary lines between the United States and the adjacent British provinces : from the mouth of the river St. Croix to the intersections of the parallel of 45 degrees of north latitude with the river St. Lawrence near St. Regis, shewing the lines as respectively claimed by the United States and Great Britain under the Treaty of 1783, as awarded by the King of the Netherlands, and as settled in 1842 by the Treaty of Washington, compiled by Lieut.T.J. Lee, topl. engineers and W.M.C. Fairfax, civil engr. It was published in Mar. 1843 by the United States House of Representatives. Scale [ca. 1:1,020,000]. Shows in different colors: claimed boundaries of 1783, boundary awarded by the King of the Netherlands, and boundary under the Treaty of 1842. Covers northern Maine and portions of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to Universal Transverse Mercator projection (UTM Zone 19N, meters, NAD 83). 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, boundaries between the United States and Canada, and more. Inset: Rouse's Point and its vicinity on Lake Champlain. Scale 1:33,780. 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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  17. Title: Map of part of the Wisconsin Territory: compiled from Tanner's map of U. States, from surveys of public lands and Indian boundaries, from personal reconnoissance and from original information derived from explorers and traders, 1935

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    Summary: 1 map

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  18. Title: Map no. 2 from Great Salt Lake to the Humboldt Mountains: from explorations and surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War; by Capt. E.G. Beckwith, 3d. Artillery; F.W. Egloffstein, topographer for the route.; Explorations and surveys for a rail road route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows drainage, railroads, trails, Native American territories, and locations of historic events. From: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1 map; 54 x 46 cm

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  19. Title: Map no. 4 from the valley of the mud lakes to the Pacific Ocean: from explorations and surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War; by Capt. E.G. Beckwith, 3d. Artillery; F.W. Egloffstein, topographer for the route.; Explorations and surveys for a rail road route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows drainage, railroads, trails, etc. From: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 1 map; 54 x 46 cm

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  20. Title: Map no. 4 from the Coo-che-to-pa Pass to the Wahsatch Mountains: from explorations and surveys made under the direction of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary of War; by Capt. J.W. Gunnison, top. eng, assisted by Capt. E.G. Beckwith, 3rd artillery; R.H. Kern, topographer in the field.; Explorations and surveys for a rail road route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows drainage, railroads, trails, Indian territories, etc. From: Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad From the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Includes proposed railroad lines. 1 map; 78 x 57 cm

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