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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, and aero views,
panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed
as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn
to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape
features in perspective.
The majority of items presented here are documented in PANORAMIC MAPS of Cities in the United States and Canada, second edition (1984), by John R. Hébert and Patrick E. Dempsey. Hébert and Dempsey compiled a checklist of 1,726 panoramic maps of U.S. and Canadian cities, the bulk of which were done by Albert Ruger, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler,
Lucien R. Burleigh, Henry Wellge, and
Oakley H. Bailey who prepared more than fifty-five percent of the panoramic maps in the Library of Congress. Additional panoramic maps will be added to this presentation as they are acquired by the Geography & Map Division.
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