History and Background
Geography
and Maps: An Illustrated Guide
Reference Policies
Guides to the Collections
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Places in History
Places in the News!
MrSID and JPEG 2000 Viewers
Acquisitions, Cataloging,
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Philip Lee Phillips Society
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The Geography and Map Division (G&M) has custody
of the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in
the world with collections numbering over 5.5 million maps, 80,000
atlases, 6,000 reference works, over 500 globes and globe gores,
3,000 raised relief models, and a large number of cartographic
materials in other formats, including over 38,000 CDs/DVDs. The online Map
Collections represents only a small fraction that have been converted
to digital form. These images were created from maps and atlases
and, in general, are restricted to items that are in public domain,
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