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    Panoramic Maps The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings,...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Dempsey, Patrick E. (Patrick Eugene) - Hébert, John R.
    • Date: 1997

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    Holbrook's map of the city of Newark, New Jersey. Street map hand col. to show wards and ward numbers. Shows radial distances from city center. Also covers boroughs of East Newark and Harrison. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes notes, directory of "Streets, lands, courts & alleys not named on the map", ill., and advertisements. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect:...
    • Contributor: A.S. Holbrook's Printing Office
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of battle-grounds of August 28th, 29th & 30th, 1862, in the vicinity of Groveton, Prince William Co., Va. Scale 1:21,120; 3 in. to 1 mile. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Alternate title: Illustrative map accompanying argument of petitioner's counsel, positions of troops delineated by his counsel : no. 5, 6 P.M., Aug 29th '62. At head of title: Engineer Department, U.S. Army, Bvt. Maj. Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Brig. Gen. & Chief of Engineers. LC copy annotated in ink: Porter's map...
    • Contributor: Warren, G. K. (Gouverneur Kemble) - Hawley, Joseph R. (Joseph Roswell) - United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson) - McCrary, George W. (George Washington)
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
    • Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
    • Date: 1495

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    Atlas of fifteen miles around Washington, including the County of Prince George, Maryland Phillips 1499. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP ga08 08-19-87.
    • Contributor: Hopkins, Griffith Morgan
    • Date: 1878-01-01

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    Hotchkiss Map Collection The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of which were used by the Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson for their combat planning and strategy. Several of the maps have annotations of various military officers, demonstrating their...
    • Date: 1828

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    View of Holliston Mass., 1878 Includes index to points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: D. Bremner Co
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Newport, R.I. 1878. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 879 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 651
    • Contributor: Galt & Hoy
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of the city of Worcester, Worcester Co., Mass. Shows administrative units. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Drew, Allis & Co
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of Kaufman & Rockwall Counties,Texas Shows landownership. LC Land ownership maps, 1033 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. In lower left corner: Jones & Murphy, land agents, Dallas, Texas. LC copy annotated in ink, laminated and mounted on cloth.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Martenet's Map of Harford County, Maryland : shore lines and tide water from U.S. Coast Survey, the county from actual surveys Shows householders' names and election districts. LC Land ownership maps, 295 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes 1878 copyright statement. Insets: Belair -- Havre de Grace -- Aberdeen -- Jarrettsville -- Fallston -- Dublin -- Lapidum -- Darlington -- Abingdon.
    • Contributor: McNabb, J. W. - Harford County (Md.). County Surveyor - Martenet, Simon J.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    View of Ashland, Mass. 1878. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 268 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2
    • Contributor: Bailey, O. H. (Oakley Hoopes) - Hazen, J. C.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Preliminary geological map of the Yellowstone National Park. National Park Exhibit, 1972. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer) - Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Bird's eye view of the city of Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington Territory, 1878. Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 973 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2
    • Contributor: Glover, E. S. (Eli Sheldon) - A.L. Bancroft & Company
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of District No. 4., last purchase : from north line of Pennsylvania to south line of Ridgway and Benninger townships, Elk County, Penn. : [parts of Elk and McKean counties, Pennsylvania] Cadastral map of parts of Elk and McKean counties (Pa.) showing warranty-deed land tracts, warranty numbers, real-property tracts/lots, lot numbers, and landowners' names. LC Land ownership maps, 772 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1878 by J L Brown C.E. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington." Originally printed on 4 sheets (later conjoined). LC copy imperfect: Torn...
    • Contributor: Brown, J. L.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Heezen-Tharp collection Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp worked for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Observatory of Columbia University and mapped the ocean floor from 1957 to 1977. Heezen was geologist and Tharp was a cartographer. The collection consists of the textual materials, photographs, and scientific data. Related maps and globes are held by the Geography and Map Division and cataloged separately.
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1876
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    Sanborn Maps The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions.
    • Date: 1867

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    Plainville, Connecticut 1878. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 93 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2
    • Contributor: Bailey, O. H. (Oakley Hoopes) - C.H. Vogt (Firm) - Hazen, J. C.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road with its branches and connections. Map of the Eastern U.S. showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, canals, named railroad network, and the B. & O. in heavy black lines, indicates cooperative connections, unfinished and proposed lines.
    • Contributor: Elmer, Walter F. - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Brockton, Mass. : 1878.
    Brockton, Massachusetts
    Bird's-eye view. Relief shown pictorially. Includes index to points of interest and col. ill. of buildings. Signed on verso: H. E. Lincoln. Copy imperfect: Brittle, tears along edges, small pieces missing along edges. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. PM3 Acquisitions control no.: 2009-031
    • Contributor: Beck & Pauli
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    [Maps of Hawaii--islands La--Maui to 1905]
    Alternate supplied title: Hawaii title collection drawer 13 | Alternate supplied title: Hawaii title collection--islands La--Maui to 1905 | Alternate supplied title: Hawaiian islands title collection La--Maui to 1905
    This record covers single maps covering islands of Hawaii, separately or in groups, which are not represented in the LC database by separate catalog records. This collection includes single printed maps and photocopies of printed or manuscript single maps and may also include some multi-sheet single maps, plates from atlases, books or periodicals, and printed facsimiles. These maps also show various subjects including coasts,...
    • Date: 1878
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    Map showing the timber leases on the Girard Estate in Schuylkill & Columbia Co's, Pa. Scale ca. 1:43,560. Hand colored. Shows collieries and land holdings. "To accompany the report of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, January 1st, 1879." "Photo.-litho. & printed by J. H. Camp, 610 Jayne St., Philad'a." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 650/1; 650/2; 650/3; 650/4; 650/5; 700/1
    • Contributor: Camp, John Henry - Thompson, Heber S. (Heber Samuel)
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Map of Rutherford County, Tenn. : from actual surveys
    Map of Rutherford County, Tennessee
    Relief shown by hachures. Shows roads, railroads, property tract lines, tract numbers, and landowners' names. Includes business directories, insets of Milton, Eagleville, Fosterville, Smyrna, City of Murfreesboro, and Christiana, list of names, and table of population. LC Land ownership maps, 878 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
    • Contributor: Worley & Bracher - D.G. Beers & Co - Beers, D. G. (Daniel G.) - Lanagan, J.
    • Date: 1878-01-01
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    Jamaica, particulars of valuable Estates : known as "Hopewell," in the Parish of Saint Andrew, in the Island of Jamaica containing 170 acres or thereabouts : "Mount Horeb and West Vale" Estate ...
    In the Court of the Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies (Jamaica) | Incumbered Estates in the West Indies (Jamaica) | Encumbered Estates in the West Indies (Jamaica)
    Title from accompanying text. "In the matter of the Estate of David Judah Alberga and Benjamin Alberga." "Sale on Wednesday, the 22nd day of May, 1878." Accompanied by text: In the Court of the Commissioners for Sale of Incumbered Estates in the West Indies, Jamaica. ([4] unnumbered pages : cadastral data, annotations ; 44` cm, folded to 28 x 12 cm). "At the Auction...
    • Contributor: Hards, Vaughan & Jenkinson (Firm)
    • Date: 1878-01-01

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    Gary W. North map collection The collection consists of 13 remote-sensing maps of locations in the United States, 1 remote-sensing map of the Amazon Basin, and 7 illustrations concerning the NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), which became known as Landsat 1. The materials are covered in Mylar and appear to have been part of an exhibition created by Gary W. North that includes one small banner. In addition,...
    • Contributor: North, Gary W.
    • Date: 1821