Osher Map Library Sheet Map Collection

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The New England Coast from New York to Portland
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Dimensions: 33 x 50.5 cm on sheet 37 x 54 cm folded to 13.5 x 7.5 cm
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LC Call Number: G3720.A5 1910 W3
OCLC: 1484681634
Accession Number: OML-1910-219
The New England Coast from New York to Portland

The Temple of Time invented by Emma Willard.
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Dimensions: 68 x 96.5 cm on sheet, folded to 36 cm
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Historical Context: Emma Willard was an educator and founded the first school for women's higher education called the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. She traveled the country and abroad promoting education for women. Emma Willard co-wrote geographies and atlases including the widely used Historical Atlas of the United States.  The Temple of Time was published in her 1836 Atlas to Accompany A System of Universal Geography.
LC Call Number: GN 469.5 1846 W5
OCLC: 1485480093
Accession Number: OML-1846-76
The Temple of Time invented by Emma Willard.

War Maps and Diagrams.
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Dimensions: 40 x 33 or smaller, 52 x 36 cm on sheet
Historical Context: The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861 and ended on May 26, 1865. the main conflict leading to the war was the dispute over slavery and its expansion to the west. When Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he opposed the expansion which let to seven southern states to secede from the Union. More southern states joined the secession and became a confederacy electing Jefferson Davis as their president.  The compilation of maps and diagrams depicts the vastness of the conflict with forces on both sides spread out over much of the mid-Atlantic and Southern United States and parts of the Midwest.
LC Call Number: G3701.S5 1861 N4
OCLC: 75544738
Accession Number: OML-1861-130
War Maps and Diagrams.

Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae , alias Archipelagus S. Lazari vel Carolinae.
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Dimensions: 1 map : color ; neatline 21.5 x 34.5 cm, on sheet 24 x 38 cm
Historical Context: Exploration of Palau and surrounding islands in the southwestern Pacific is shown on the map depicting European and native Palauan cartography of an early presentation of the islands through the Jesuit explorers and then through Joseph Stocklein to Europe.
LC Call Number: G9427.F33 1726 P3
OCLC: 224543746
Accession Number: OML-1726-1
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Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae , alias Archipelagus S. Lazari vel Carolinae.

The true issue or "thats whats the matter"
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Dimensions: 34.5 x 45 cm
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Historical Context: The American Civil War was about the conflict between the Union and the Confederacy over the issue of slavery and its expansion. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused southern states to secede.
LC Call Number: E461 1864.C8
OCLC: 1487919331
Accession Number: OML-1864-89
The true issue or

Map of Jerusalem in 1735 based on the writings of Josephus and observations of modern writers.
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Date/Date Range Produced: 1735 - 1965
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Dimensions: 69 x 102 cm
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Historical Context: The panorama depicts Jerusalem in biblical times detailing the buildings, amphitheaters and a densely populated city.
LC Call Number: G7504.A35 1965 H4
OCLC: 1492199126
Accession Number: OML-1965-239
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Map of Jerusalem in 1735 based on the writings of Josephus and observations of modern writers.

This map illustrates the world wide distribution of Eno's "fruit salt".
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Date/Date Range Produced: 1926
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Dimensions: 46 x 89 cm
LC Call Number: G3201.M8 1926 T3
OCLC: 1108782935
Accession Number: OML-1926-209
This map illustrates the world wide distribution of Eno's

Flags of the Americas
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Dimensions: 54 x 36 cm, on sheet 69 x 52 cm
Historical Context: The Pan American Union was founded in 1890 to promote cooperation between Latin American countries and the United States. 
LC Call Number: G5200 1940.H3
OCLC: 12626616
Accession Number: OML-1940-253
Flags of the Americas

United States--east coast, Maine, Frenchman Bay and Mount Desert Island
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Dimensions: 112.5 x 72 cm
LC Call Number: G3732.F7 1970 U23
OCLC: 1492382363
Accession Number: OML-1970-246
United States--east coast, Maine, Frenchman Bay and Mount Desert Island