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CollectionCities and Towns This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 3,765 Items
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Be... A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
- Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 351 Items
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MapSketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 6. To...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 6: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 19' bis 49° 22' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 3 pages
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MapMuriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
- Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
- Date: 1538
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MapHauslab-Liechtenstein map collection The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab. These were later acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types of map...
- Contributor: Hauslab, Franz - Johann II, Fürst Von Und Zu Liechtenstein
- Date: 1500
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MapSketches for the Great Map of Bavaria from 1563, Part 2. Topo...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 2: Topographische Karte von Bayern 47° 54' bis 48° 2' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 9 pages
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MapSketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 4. To...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 4: Topographische Karte von Bayern 48° 15' bis 48° 18' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 6 pages
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CollectionGeneral Maps This category includes maps that typically portray the physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area at a particular point in time. The maps in this category show a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.
- Date: 1290
Collection Items: View 6,739 Items
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MapSketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 7. Bi...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 7: Vogelschauplan grösseren Masstabes von Bayern an der böhmischen Grenze, diese ist rot markiert Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 6 pages
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MapSketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 3. To...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 3: Topographische Karte von Bayern 48° 10' bis 48° 14' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 5 pages
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MapMaps: Bach to Baseball Cards - Conservation Highlights (Prese... Maps - Bach to Baseball Cards: Preserving the Nation's Heritage at the Library of Congress
- Date: 1514
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MapSketches for the "Great Map of Bavaria" from 1563, Part 5. To...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 5: Topographische Karte von Bayern 49° 14' bis 49° 18' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 5 pages
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MapSketches for the Great Map of Bavaria from 1563, Part 1. Topo...
Vorzeichnungen für die Grosse Karte Bayerns von 1563, Teil 1: Topographische Karte von Bayern 47° 46' bis 47° 54' nördl. Breite Between 1554 and 1561, by order of Duke Albrecht V, Philipp Apian (1531-89) carried out a topographical survey of Bavaria (without using triangulation), on which was based the first mathematically measured map of a large region. In 1563, he completed a large-scale version on vellum, to a scale of 1:40,000, which was unfortunately destroyed after 1720. A copy of the original that was produced...- Contributor: Apianus, Philippus - Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria
- Date: 1554-01-01
- Resource: - 9 pages