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Composed of selected Americana and cartographic treasures of the
Library of Congress, Map Collections: 1500-2004 has seven
major categories: cities and towns, conservation and environment,
discovery and exploration, Cultrual Landscape, military battles
and campaigns, transportation and communication, and general maps.
Within these categories, there are smaller collections: Panoramic
Maps, Mapping the National Parks, Maps of Liberia, and Railroad
Maps.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
1562
Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez
Atlases
George
Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
Colonial Settlement, 1492-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1783
The New Nation, 1780-1815
Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
Development of the Industrial United States, 1876-1915
Emergence of Modern America, 1890-1930
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These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
site.
American
Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936
Built in
America, 1933-Present
Continental
Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789
Evolution
of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
The
Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920
Taking
the Long View, 1851-1991
Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920
Recommended additional sources of information.
Places
in the News - Up-to-date maps related to current events
Read
More About It! - A bibliography
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
Maps are assigned to one of seven major categories. Searching
Map Collections describes the categories and how to find maps
within each category.
Note that entire collections may be subsets of a category. For
example, the Transportation
and Communication category contains individual maps and the
entire Railroad
Maps collection.
Search
for maps using the keyword search, or by selecting from lists in
the Subject
Index, Creator
Index, and Geographic
Location.
For more help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
There are a number of different viewing options, but no special
viewers are needed to see the maps. A special technology called
MrSID (Multi-Resolution Seamless Image Database) by LizardTech allows
you to zoom in or out on an area of the map that you wish to inspect.
If you wish to save maps with these special viewing options on your
computer, you will need to download
the free MrSID software.
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