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Aqaba and the Northern End of the Gulf. 1914
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Sinai Peninsula. West Side, Coast of the Red Sea near the Foothills of Abū...
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Sinai Peninsula. West Side, Emptying of the Wādi Fīrān in the Coastal...
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Sinai Peninsula. West Side, Landscape North of al-Ṭūr. 1910
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Sinai Peninsula. West Side, Jabal Sirbāl from East. 2300 Meters High. 1910
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Sinai Peninsula, Sahl al-Rāḥah, North of Saint Catherine's Monastery....
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Saint Catherine's Monastery, from the Northeast Corner Out. Right: Pilgrims...
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Jabal Mūsá (Mount Sinai). Christian (Greek Orthodox) Chapel on its Peak (2250...
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Jabal Mūsá (Mount Sinai). Considered Since the 6th Century to be the Mountain...
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Sinai Peninsula. West Side, ʻUyūn Mūsá (Moses's Springs) Southeast of Suez. 1910
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Skeleton Map of the Afghanistan and Punjab Frontier
The Survey of India was founded in 1767 in order to map the vast holdings of the British East India Company. It remained in operation following Indian independence and is currently the national...
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Afghanistan and Its Neighboring Countries
This map of Afghanistan and its neighbors was printed in multiple editions by the publishing house of Carl Flemming in Glogau, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland). The areas covered by the map were...
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Preliminary Map of the Routes Followed by the Members of the Afghan Boundary...
In the early 1880s, Great Britain (which at that time effectively controlled the foreign policy of Afghanistan) and the Russian Empire opened negotiations to define the northern border of Afghanistan....
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Western Motor Car Route Guide
This automobile guide shows the main highway route between Vancouver, Canada, and San Diego, California, circa 1915. The map lists the distance in miles from Vancouver to cities along the way, and...
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Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon, Commencing at the...
This map, produced in 1846 in seven sections, was compiled by order of the U.S. Senate from the field notes and journal of Captain John C. Frémont (1813−90) and associated sketches and notes of his...
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Map Showing Routes of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company
This foldable tourist brochure, published by Rand McNally and Company in 1891, shows the main routes and schedules of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. One side of the large sheet is a map showing...
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Map of the Territory of the United States from the Mississippi to the Pacific...
The United States gained vast territories in the West through the Mexican War of 1846−48 and the 1846 Oregon Treaty with Great Britain. By the early 1850s, government and commercial interests were...
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Map of Part of the United States Exhibiting the Principal Mail Routes West of...
As the United States expanded toward the Pacific Ocean, few services proved more critical than a functioning postal system. Mail delivery became crucial to new settlers writing home, businesses...
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Map of Southern Turkestan
The name Turkestan means “Land of the Turks” in Persian. Turkestan has never corresponded to a national entity but has been used in the Persianate world and elsewhere to signify the domain of Turkic...
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Skeleton Map of the Baluchistan and Sind Frontier
The Survey of India was founded in 1767 in order to map the vast holdings of the British East India Company. It remained in operation following Indian independence and is currently the national...
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