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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

  • Mapping The American Revolution And Its Era - American Revolutionary War Maps

    Increased North American exploration in the 18th century created a great demand for improvement in the poor quality of existing maps, charts, and plans. An engraved view of a sea drama published ...

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

  • Aftermath of the Encounter, Exploring the Early Americas

    The encounter between the Americas and Europe altered both civilizations. This section covers three dramatic changes: Language and Religion, Competition for Empire, and Documenting New Knowledge.

    Contributor: Sir Frances Drake - Amerigo Vespucci - Claudius Ptolemy - Alexander von Humboldt - John Gould - Juan Ponce de León
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Manuscript - Web Page

  • Pre-Contact America, Exploring the Early Americas

    Deals principally with the pre-contact cultures of Mesoamerica, a territory that includes most of the modern countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador.

    Contributor: Aztecs - Incas - Mayas
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Battle Of The Bulge - World War Ii Maps Military Situation Maps From 1944 To 1945

    A timeline of the Battle of the Bulge told through the daily situation maps made for the US Military VIII Corps. December 16, 1944 - In a quick glance at the situation ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1944-01-01

  • The Battle Of The Bulge - World War Ii Maps Military Situation Maps From 1944 To 1945

    A timeline of the Battle of the Bulge told through the daily situation maps made for the US Military VIII Corps. December 16, 1944 - In a quick glance at the situation ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1944-01-01

  • History Of Liberia - Maps Of Liberia 1830 To 1870

    History Of Liberia: A Time Line After the struggle for liberty in the American Revolution, free and enslaved African Americans faced continued hardship and inequality. A number of white Americans, for a ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-03-12

  • 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 - Maps Of Liberia 1830 To 1870

    This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, ...

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

  • 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

  • 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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  • Panoramic Artists And Publishers - Panoramic Maps

    The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division holds panoramic maps done by Albert Ruger, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, Lucien R. Burleigh, Henry Wellge, and Oakley H. Bailey who were among the most ...

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

  • Sanborn Samplers - Sanborn Maps

    To illustrate the value of fire insurance maps for historical research, maps of a number of locations around the country are reproduced here and presented with a brief history of the site ...

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

  • 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

  • Overview - Railroad Maps 1828 To 1900

    The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development ...

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

  • 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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  • The 1562 Map Of America - Discovery And Exploration

    Created by Diego Gutiérrez The late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and ...

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

  • 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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  • 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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