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Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury was a 19th-century American cartographer specializing in physical geography and oceanography. He...

American 19TH Century Physical Geography Ocean Chart

9.2 Excellent

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Henry Gannett

Henry Gannett was an American cartographer instrumental in shaping modern surveying techniques. His long tenure as chief...

American Survey 19TH Century Usgs

9.0 Excellent

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John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell was an American geologist and cartographer instrumental in understanding the American West. His 1869...

American Survey 19TH Century Canyon

8.9 Great

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was an American geologist whose late 19th-century mapping surveys of the American West, parti...

American 19TH Century West Yellowstone

8.8 Great

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Francis Amasa Walker

American economist and statistician (1840–1897) who directed the 9th U.S. Census and authored the groundbreaking Statist...

American 19TH Century Thematic Statistical Atlas

8.5 Great

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Henry Schenck Tanner

American cartographer and publisher (1786–1858) whose 'New American Atlas' (1818–1823) set a high standard for accuracy...

American 19TH Century Philadelphia Atlas

8.4 Great

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Samuel Augustus Mitchell

American publisher and cartographer (1792–1868) who produced widely distributed school atlases and wall maps that shaped...

American 19TH Century Philadelphia Atlas

8.3 Great

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George F. Cram

George F. Cram was an American map publisher who established the George F. Cram Company in 1867, becoming a major suppli...

American 19TH Century Chicago Atlas

8.2 Great

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Joseph Hutchins Colton

Joseph Hutchins Colton was a 19th-century American publisher who founded J.H. Colton & Co. in New York around 1831, beco...

American 19TH Century New York Atlas

8.2 Great

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John Paul Goode

American cartographer (1862–1932) who developed the homolosine interrupted projection in 1923, widely adopted in educati...

American 19TH Century Projection Homolosine

8.0 Great

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George Philip

George Philip was a British cartographer who founded the map publishing house George Philip and Son in 1834, producing p...

Educational 19TH Century English Atlas

8.0 Great

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Joseph Meyer

German publisher (1796–1856) who founded the Bibliographisches Institut and produced geographic atlases alongside his la...

German 19TH Century Encyclopedia Publisher

8.0 Great

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George W. Colton

George W. Colton was a 19th-century American map publisher who co-founded the family firm J.H. Colton & Co., producing t...

American 19TH Century New York Atlas

7.8 Good

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Philip's Geographical Institute

British cartographic publisher founded by George Philip in 1834, producing educational maps, atlases, and globes primari...

Educational 19TH Century English Atlas

7.8 Good

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Fielding Lucas Jr.

Fielding Lucas Jr. was an American publisher who produced a prominent general atlas in 1816, one of the earliest detaile...

American 19TH Century Atlas Baltimore

7.5 Good

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Alvin Jewett Johnson

American publisher (1827–1884) best known for Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas, a widely distributed U.S. atlas se...

American 19TH Century New York Atlas

7.5 Good

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Carl Flemming

German cartographic publisher based in Glogau, active mid-19th century, producing school atlases and wall maps widely di...

German 19TH Century Atlas Publisher

7.5 Good

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Thomas G. Bradford

Thomas G. Bradford was an American geographer who published An Illustrated Atlas in 1835, featuring distinctive engraved...

American 19TH Century Boston Atlas

6.8 Fair

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Sidney Morse

Sidney Morse was an American inventor and cartographer who co-published the Morse's North American Atlas in 1845, utiliz...

American 19TH Century Atlas Publisher

6.5 Fair

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Frank A. Gray

American 19th-century map publisher based in New York, noted for producing Gray's Atlas of the United States and popular...

American 19TH Century New York Atlas

6.5 Fair