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  • Panoramic Mapping - Panoramic Maps

    The tradition of perspective mapping flowered in Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Mathias Merian, George Braun, Franz Hogenberg, and others produced perspective maps of European cities. These early ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • Overview - World War Ii Maps Military Situation Maps From 1944 To 1945

    The World War II Military Situation Maps contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page

  • Overview - Discovery And Exploration

    This category documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps. Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th ...

    Contributor: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page

  • Overview - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    This presentation focuses on the various documents—from maps to newspapers to cultural artifact—that help to describe the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • History Of Mapping The Civil War - Civil War Maps

    War, like necessity, has been called the mother of invention. The same might be said of cartography, for with every war there is a great rush to produce maps to aid in ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2008-08-04

  • Yellowstone The First National Park - National Parks Maps

    Among those who played key roles in establishing Yellowstone as the Nation's first national park was Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden. His accomplishments in 1871-72 were the high point of a long and distinguished ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1999-06-02

  • History Of Railroads And Maps - Railroad Maps 1828 To 1900

    Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-10-19

  • Overview - 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, ...

    Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
    Site: LOC.gov web pages - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17
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  • Maps Of Great Smoky Mountains National Park - National Parks Maps

    Early European Maps | American Maps and Map Makers | Exploration and Geological Mapping | Environmental Maps | Early USGS Maps | USGS and the TVA -- Topographic Quadrangle Maps | National ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 1999-06-02

  • Sanborn Time Series - Sanborn Maps

    Fire insurance maps are valuable to much historic research because they often provide evidence of change over time. Specific changes in an individual site such as when a building was expanded or ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Louisiana As A Spanish Colony - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    Diplomacy of the French Cession The impetus to cede the French colony of Louisiana to the Spanish was the long, expensive conflict of the French and Indian War, also known as the ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • Overview - 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.

    Contributor: Sanborn (Firm)
    Site: LOC.gov web pages - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 1867-01-01
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  • Overview - Hotchkiss Maps

    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 ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1828-01-01
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  • Overview - Rochambeau Maps

    The Rochambeau Map Collection contains cartographic items used by Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1725-1807), when he was commander in chief of the French expeditionary army (1780-82) during the ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1725-01-01
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  • The Exploration And Legacy Of The Louisiana Territory - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    American Exploration of Louisiana Acquisition and exploration of American lands throughout the first decade of the 19th century began and ended with President Thomas Jefferson. Whether involved in purchasing the Louisiana Territory; ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • The Hotchkiss Collection Of Confederate Maps - Hotchkiss Maps

    by Clara LeGear Jedediah Hotchkiss was born at Windsor, Broome County, N. Y., November 30, 1828. He was graduated from the Windsor Academy and early showed great interest in botany and in ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1948-11-01

  • Explorations and Encounters, Exploring the Early Americas

    This section presents materials from the voyages of exploration of Christopher Columbus, Hernán Cortés, and Francisco Pizarro, and material about the natives of the Americas they encountered.

    Contributor: Christopher Columbus - Hernán Cortés - Francisco Pizarro - Taíno - Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page

  • Creating the Bill of Rights, Creating the United States Exhibit

    The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, passed by Congress in 1789, became the bedrock of individual rights and liberties.

    Contributor: James Madison - Thomas Jefferson - George Washington - John Adams - Abigail Adams
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Manuscript - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page

  • Overview - Civil War Maps

    Civil War Maps brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages - Main Catalog
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 2008-08-04
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  • Introduction To The Collection - Sanborn Maps

    (This article was published within the Library's publication, Fire Insurance Maps: in the Library of Congress) Key for interpreting Sanborn fire insurance maps The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

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