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  1. Title: Ecuador, 1892 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta geografica del Ecuador, por Teodoro Wolf ; publicada por orden del supremo gobierno de la republica y trabajada bajo las presidencias de los EE. se?ores D.J.M. Placido Caama?o y D. Antonio Flores. It was published by Instituto geografica de H. Wagner & E. Debes in 1892. Scale 1:445,000. Covers coastal Ecuador and portions of Colombia and Peru. Map in Spanish. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South America Lambert Conformal Conic projected 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, railroads, roads, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Includes also insets: La region oriental del Ecuador -- Archipielago de Galapagos, and table of altitudes of cities, villages and other inhabited spots, and, a table administrative divisions and subdivisions of Ecuador. 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.

  2. Title: Global GIS : international river basins of the world

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    Summary: This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database dataset: international river basins of the world. This version of the datalayer was published as part of the USGS Global GIS : global coverage database (2003). Does not cover Antarctica. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

  3. Title: Carta do reconcavo da Bahia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. "Gravada mediante auxilio do Governo do Estado na administrac̦ão do exmo. Sñr. Conso. Luiz Vianna." Includes tables showing population and geological features.

  4. Title: Map of the rail roads in the United States in operation and progress : to accompany a report from the Treasury Department

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures.; Insets: Map of Florida.--Map of Texas. 100 x 108 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,180,000 General Map Collection

  5. Title: Asia : concinnata secundum observationes Academiae Regalis Scientiarum et nonnullas alias, et juxta annotationes recentissimas

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 Date from previously assigned call number on verso. Relief shown pictorially. 44 x 57 centimeters Scale approximately 1:22,000,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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