Concordance of Images
Copies of the images from Geography and Maps: An Illustrated Guide may be ordered from the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service (see Price List for Photographic Products). The images are listed below in the order in which they appear in the guide.
Introduction
Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia
Olaus Magnus's map of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic,
Atlases
Johann Ruysch's map
Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy
Henricus Hondius's ornately decorated world map
Title page from Pieter van den Keere's La Germanie Inférievre
Frontispiece from Joan Blaeu's Le Grand Atlas
Chart of northwest Africa and Western Europe
Nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea (left and right)
Chart of Bora Bora, French Polynesia, 1823
1887 atlas of Washington, D.C.
Deer Creek Township in Tazewell County, Illinois,
Panoramic view of the Grand Canyon by William H. Holmes
The economic map of the former Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Special Collections
Manuscript map of the Kingdom of Ethiopia
George Washington prepared this manuscript plat in 1766
Pierre Charles L'Enfant's original plan for the capital of the United States,
Explorer's chart of the northeast coast of North America
Diego Gutiérrez's celebrated map of the Western Hemisphere
One of three original maps depicting the maritime explorations of the coasts of the United States
Jean-Baptiste Louis Franquelin's Carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale
Powder horns with maps and other images.
Sketch map of the battlefield of Gettysburg by Jedediah Hotchkiss,
A manuscript map of the region from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River
The first map to show the region that is now part of Yellowstone National Park.
Panoramic view of Phoenix, Arizona by C. J. Dyer in 1885.
Sheet showing the Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation Studio
Map of Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean
Land litigation map of Oztoticpac
Hand-colored photographic plan for the rebuilding of Berlin
A rubbing taken from a 4,000-year-old stone tablet in Sian
Detail of manuscript Chinese map
Detail of Japanese manuscript scroll map
Manuscript map of Japan as viewed from Burma during World War II
Palestine as portrayed by cartographer-artist Hal Shelton,
U.S. Army Air Force's "survival" maps
Translucent maps donated to the Library by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority of Washington, D.C.
General Collections
1853 map of Wyoming County
Map documenting the developing railroad network in the Middle Atlantic and New England states
Shell Road Map of Pennsylvania
Map showing the distribution of the four dominant religions
Carte géométrique de la France
Topographic map (1/75,000) of Austria-Hungary
Planimetric map (1/25,000) of China
Topographic map (1/25,000) of Egypt
Topographic map (1/25,000) of Switzerland
Hand-colored geological sheet issued by the Geological Survey of England and Wales
An early experimental air navigation strip map
chart of Charleston, South Carolina
Daily situation maps prepared by the 12th Army
Globes and Terrain Models
Small manuscript terrestrial globe
Gobe gores from the 1615 celestial globe
Map of the Crown Prince Islands
Aerial Photographs and Remote Sensing Maps
Photomosaic of Manhattan Island, New York
1980 coverage of Carver County, Minnesota by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
The confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon River in a Landsat image
Digital Data and Geographic Information Systems
Computer-generated map of Dade County, Florida
computer-screen map, which shows mortality statistics
Political map of Europe showing national capitals and major cities
List of Special Collections
One of the earliest maps published in the New World was engraved on copper by Antonio Ysarti in Mexico City and printed by Juan de Ribero
"Map of the United States with the contiguous British and Spanish Possessions" (Philadelphia, 1816)
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