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  1. Title: Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1856 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper nautical chart entitled: Preliminary chart of Charleston harbor and its approaches. A trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by C.O. Boutelle ; topography by S.A. Gilbert ; hydrography by the party under the command of J.N. Maffitt ; engd. by F. Danworth, J. Knight, E. Yeager & G. Mc Coy. It was published by U.S. Coast Survey Office in 1856. Scale 1:30,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the South Carolina State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (Fipszone 3900). 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, built-up areas and selected buildings, docks, wharves, shoreline features (rocks, shoals, anchorage points, ports, inlets, etc.), and more. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by contours and soundings. Includes 2 views, notes, sailing directions, tides' table, table of currents, list of buoys and of beacons. Images includes manuscript additions and newspaper clippings.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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  2. Title: A new map of Michigan with its canals, roads & distances; by H.S. Tanner.; Inset title: Western part of Michigan

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    Summary: Prime meridian: Washington. Engraved by: E.B. Dawson. From: Tanner's universal atlas, no. 25. Below border at left: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1841, by H.S. Tanner, in the clerks office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Inset map: Western Part of Michigan. Includes table of steam boat routes. Shows county divisions. 1 map: col.; 33 x 27 cm.

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  3. Title: Worcester Center, Massachusetts, 1829 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the village of Worcester, by Ed. E. Phelps, M.D., civ. eng'r. It was published by Clarendon Harris in the Worcester village directory, July 1829. Scale [1:3,960]. Covers the central area of the City of Worcester, Massachusetts, Main Street to Summer Street, Belmont Street to Franklin Street. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). 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, residences, businesses, cemeteries, and more. Buildings are shown with keyed numbers that correspond to entries in the Worcester village directory. The map includes illustrations of: New Unitarian Church -- Court House -- Town Hall -- South Meeting House -- Antiquarian Hall. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts 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 (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.

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  4. Title: Gulf of Mexico sheet I: coast of Yucatan and the Campeche Bank

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths by soundings and depth curves. Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations. Historic Maps copy has label on verso: West Indies. Cape Catoche to Sisal, including the Campeche Shoals. Sheet 1. 1205.

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  5. Title: Obispo shoals ; Eastern and southern triangles

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings. At head of title: West Indies, Yucatan Bank. "Soundings in fathoms." "1830." Historic Maps copy has label on verso: Gulf of Mexico. Eastern and Southern Triangles, (Yucatan.) 1830.

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  6. Title: Gulf of Mexico : Cay Arenas and adjacent reefs

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    Summary: Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Historic Maps copy has label on verso: West Indies. Cay Arenas, and adjacent reefs. 1209.

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  7. Title: Soil map, Washington County, Indiana

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    Summary: Shows soil types classification by colors and symbols. 'Field Operations, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.' 'Litho Eastern Offset Inc., Balto.' Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile.W 86���������19���������--W 85���������51���������/N 38���������47���������--38���������25���������). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils; Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station; soils surveyed by J.T. Miller, in charge and Howard Wm. Higbee, U.S. Department of Agriculture and M.E. Waggoner, Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station.

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  8. Title: Soil map Dubois County Indiana

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    Summary: Shows soil types classification by colors and symbols. 'Field operations Bureau of Chemistry and Soils 1930. 'Williams & Heintz Co. Wash. D.C.' Scale 1:63,360. 1 inch = 1 mile. Soils surveyed by C.S. Simmons and R.T. Avon Burke, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and T.M. Bushnell, J.E. Adams and H.P. Ulrich, Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station.

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  9. Title: New map of the city of Norwich

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    Summary: Scale [ca. 1:9,000]; 1 map; 41 x 69 cm Norwich (Conn.)--Maps

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  10. Title: Macedonia, Mœsia, Thracia et Dacia

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    Summary: Relief shown by hachures. In upper right-hand corner: IX. Shows Macedonia, an ancient kingdom which later became a Roman province, now a region in the central Balkan Peninsula including the Macedonia region of Greece, the middle Vardar Valley in the Macedonian Republic of the former Yugoslavia, and southwest Bulgaria; Moesia, an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River; Thrace, now Eastern Thrace in Turkey and Western Thrace in Greece; and Dacia, an ancient country of central Europe, now modern Romania. Probably issued in: An atlas of antient geography / by Samuel Butler. Philadelphia : Carey & Lea, 1831. Reissued with same imprint in 1832, and by Lea & Blanchard in 1843.

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  11. Title: Illinois

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    Summary: Sticker on back: "Published by Carey & Lea, Philadelphia, Penna. 1827." 21 x 30 centimeters Scale approximately 1:2,100,000 General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Geographical, statistical and historical map of Illinois.

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    Summary: Notes on geographical features, "Historical sketch" on 3 sides of map.; Greenwich, Washington.;Illinois.;1 map, colored;29 x 21 cm.;ca. 1:2,200,000;H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1827. -- No. 33.

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  13. Title: Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Illinois.

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    Summary: London, Washington.;A list of geographical atlases, No. 1373a.;1 map, colored;29 x 21 cm., on sheets 47 x 57 cm.;ca. 1:2,200,000;Carey, H.C. and Lea I. A complete historical, chronological and geographical american atlas. . . -- Philadelphia, Carey & Lea, 1822. -- No. 33.

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  14. Title: Geographical and statistical map of Denmark and Sweden

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:1,710,000] Cartographic Details: Scale [1:6,850,000] Relief shown pictorially. Map bounded on three sides by columns of text. In upper right corner: "No. 59." Contents: Map of Denmark -- Map of Norway and Sweden. Insets: Bornholm -- Iceland -- Faro Isles. 2 maps on 1 sheet : color ; 18 x 27 centimeters or smaller, on sheet 45 x 55 centimeters Scale [1:1,710,000]; Scale [1:6,850,000] General Map Collection

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  15. Title: Newport, Rhode Island, ca. 1892 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of Newport, R.I., surveyed by N.W. Eayrs, c.e. ; under the direction of J.P. Cotton, c.e. ; J. Bergner, del. It was published ca. 1892 by Simon Hart. Scale [ca. 1:13,000]. 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, railroads, drainage, city ward boundaries, selected property boundaries, buildings, and names of property owners, and more. Includes inset: Road map of island of Rhode Island and Conanicut Island, surveyed by C.E. Hammett, Jr. Scale [ca. 1:85,000]. Also includes index to points of interest (churches, schools, hotels, libraries, mills, etc.), tables of elevation and distances, and shows radial distances. 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: Map of Alaska

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    Summary: Shows Alaska with areas of coal bearing rocks in red and coal seams in green.; Includes legend.; Relief shown by contours and spot heights.; Inset: [Western Aleutian Islands].; Ancillary map of Alaska shows areas mapped by U.S. Geological Survey.; S Doc 194 59.2.; Andrew B. Graham Co., Photo-Lithographers, Washington, D.C. 41 x 59 Centimeters Scale approximately 1:5,000,000] General Map Collection

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  17. Title: Geological map of the lower Carboniferous area of Southern Indiana (Corydon sheet): to accompany the report on the geology of the region

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    Summary: From the 27th Annual report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 1902. Includes three East-West cross-sections: through New Amsterdam, through Corydon, and along line of Southern railway. Scale 1:126,720. 2 miles = 1 in. By George H. Ashley; geology By George H. Ashley and Edward M. Kindle; W.S. Blatchley, state geologist.

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  18. Title: Minneapolis, Saint Paul and vicinity

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    Summary: 68 x 87 centimeters Scale approximately 1:36,000. Minneapolis and St. Paul Maps and Atlases

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  19. Title: Arnold's chart of Paul's journeyings

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    Summary: Has map for each journey with outline of chronology and relevant Scripture passages. Relief shown by shading and spot heights. 48x30 centimeters Scale not given General Map Collection

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  20. Title: Map of Dearborn, Ohio, and Switzerland Counties, Indiana

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    Summary: Shows cities and towns, railroads, geological features, mines and mineral resources. Originally included with three other maps in folder: Maps for Geological Survey of Indiana, 1872, E.T. Cox. Scale approximately 1:130,000. Drawn for the 3d and 4th annual reports of Prof. E.T. Cox, State Geologist, by Robert B. Warder, 1872.

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