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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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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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Joseph Nicollet

French-American explorer and scientist (1786–1843) who produced the first detailed scientific maps of the upper Mississi...

Exploration Survey 19TH Century Mississippi

8.0 Great

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George Bellas Greenough

British geologist and cartographer (1778–1855) who produced a geological map of England and Wales in 1820 and was a foun...

Survey 19TH Century English Geological Map

8.0 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 Mercer Dawson

George Mercer Dawson was a prominent 19th-century Canadian geologist who conducted extensive topographical and geologica...

Survey Canadian 19TH Century Canada

8.0 Great

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Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans (1700–1756) was a Welsh-born American surveyor who produced a crucial 1749 map of the middle British colonie...

18TH Century American Survey Colonial

7.8 Good

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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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John Charles Frémont

American explorer and military officer (1813–1890) who led multiple expeditions mapping the American West in the 1840s,...

Exploration American Survey 19TH Century

7.5 Good

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Gouverneur Kemble Warren

U.S. Army topographic engineer (1830–1882) who compiled a comprehensive map of the American West in 1857, synthesizing e...

American 19TH Century West Civil War

7.5 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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John Disturnell

American publisher (1801–1877) whose 1847 map of Mexico served as the official reference document during the Treaty of G...

American 19TH Century New York Publisher

7.0 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