LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS: 'MAP COLLECTIONS: 1500-1999'
The LC 'American Memory'
project - [at the end of 2001] a collection of 4713 high res.,
zoomable MrSID images. "The focus of Map Collections is Americana and
Cartographic
Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps
and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered
by copyright protection". You can search by keyword, or browse the various
indexes (which seem to include all the formal American Memory pages, but
not necessarily those listed at the end, under 'Special Presentations'): Geographic
Location, Creator,
Subject
or Title
(for Help with Searching, see Searching Map
Collections). NB. It is worth trying more than one search
approach. 'Puerto' produced the following hits: Geographic Location
(21), the American
Memory Collections: Original Format: Maps search (23), and Subject
Index (24). [There are 17 images on Puerto Rico at
the Dawn of the Modern Age: Selected Cartographic Items].
The main and subsidiary subject sections are listed below, and repeated
in their appropriate geographical section. 'Special Presentations' (at
the end) includes some groupings that are not formally part of 'American
Memory'.
The LC Photoduplication service provides printed copies and TIFF files of
the images, see: How to Order
Reproductions. This has a link to enlargeable images available for
sale from MuseumArchives.
Cities
and towns - includes:-
Panoramic Maps
1847-1929
Additional Cities and Towns Cartographic Items
Conservation and
environment - includes:-
Mapping the
National Parks Collection
Additional Conservation and Environment Cartographic Items
Cultural
Landscapes - includes:-
American
Colonization Society Collection. Maps of Liberia 1830-1870
George Washington:
Surveyor and Mapmaker
National Atlases:
Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (1870, 1880, 1890, 1970)
Additional Cultural Landscapes Cartographic Items
Discovery
and Exploration - includes:-
The
1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez
Discovery and Exploration Cartographic Items
General
Maps - includes:-
Contemporary Maps/Places in the News
General
Atlases [Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Battista
Agnese (1544), Geographical Fun]
Additional General Cartographic Items
Military
Battles and Campaigns - includes:-
The
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the
West Indies, 1750-1789 (maps to be added monthly)
Civil War
Maps (290 of a total of 1,800 maps now online)
Additional Military Battles and Campaigns Cartographic Items
Transportation
and Communication - includes:-
Railroad
Maps 1828-1900
Additional Transportation and Communication Cartographic Items
'Special Presentations' and other map pages
[all images are high res. MrSID, unless otherwise noted - some of
these elements may not be included in the general searches listed at the
head of this entry]:-
African
American Odyssey (about 10 maps relating to West Africa and the US -
select 'Object List', then search [ctrl+F] for: map)
American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 (select 'maps' for 219 enlargeable high res. images)
Civil
War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society (searching by
keyword and entering 'map' leads to 10 enlargeable, high res.
images)
'The
Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900
in the Collections of the Library of Congress' by John R. Hébert and
Anthony P. Mullen (descriptions of 1011 maps, see also Concordance of
Images - a growing selection of MrSID images)
Meeting of
Frontiers (in English and Russian, "illustrating the development of
geographic knowledge of Siberia and the Russian Far East and the American
West" - select the Maps page to browse by title 77 maps and an atlas)
Places in the
News
Puerto
Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Selected Cartographic Items
Samuel F. B.
Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919 (including four
MrSID maps)
'Spain, the
United States & the American Frontier - Historias Paralelas', see also
the Sitemap / Mapa del Sitio
[a collaboration between LC and collections in Spain - not formally part
of the 'American Memory' project but overlapping with it] - includes:-
Americas.
Selections from 'The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps' (12 MrSID maps,
with
descriptions)
Selections
from the Geography and Map Division (118 MrSID images)
Selections
from Library of Congress Map Collections (five low res. images)
Library of Congress - see also under Medium and small general
sites. {January 2002 - this entire section revised, with
several additions}