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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 - 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
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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 - 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

  • The Cartographic Setting - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    Evolving European and American Conceptions of Louisiana to 1803 Until 1803 the exploration and mapping of the territory acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase was undertaken by the major ...

    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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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

  • Overview - American Revolutionary War Maps

    The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. Most ...

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

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

    Difficult Early Years of the Colony From its inception Louisiana faced an inauspicious existence. Its fate was bound to the French economy during the last years of the reign of Louis XIV. ...

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

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