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  • Panoramic Artists And Publishers - Panoramic Maps

    The Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division holds panoramic maps done by Albert Ruger, Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler, Lucien R. Burleigh, Henry Wellge, and Oakley H. Bailey who were among the most ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • Maps Of Arcadia National Park - National Parks Maps

    Early European Maps | British Maps | Nineteenth Century Nautical Charts | Mount Desert Island | USGS Maps | National Park Service Maps of Acadia Map of the Discovery of the East ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1999-06-02

  • A Question Of Boundaries - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    French and American representatives faced a vexing issue when they met in Paris in April 1803 to negotiate a treaty by which the United States would purchase the province of Louisiana from ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • Sanborn Samplers - Sanborn Maps

    To illustrate the value of fire insurance maps for historical research, maps of a number of locations around the country are reproduced here and presented with a brief history of the site ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Overview - General 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 ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Louisiana As A Spanish Colony - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    Diplomacy of the French Cession The impetus to cede the French colony of Louisiana to the Spanish was the long, expensive conflict of the French and Indian War, also known as the ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • The 1562 Map Of America - Discovery And Exploration

    Created by Diego Gutiérrez The late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and ...

    Contributor: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page

  • Overview - Panoramic Maps

    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, ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • Exploring the Early Americas Overview

    Features selections from the more than 3,000 rare maps, documents, paintings, prints, and artifacts that make up the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Three Dimensional Object - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Manuscript/Mixed Material - Web Page

  • Panoramic Mapping - Panoramic Maps

    The tradition of perspective mapping flowered in Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Mathias Merian, George Braun, Franz Hogenberg, and others produced perspective maps of European cities. These early ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-05-17

  • History Of Liberia - Maps Of Liberia 1830 To 1870

    History Of Liberia: A Time Line After the struggle for liberty in the American Revolution, free and enslaved African Americans faced continued hardship and inequality. A number of white Americans, for a ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-03-12

  • Overview - Sanborn Maps

    The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist provides a searchable database of the fire insurance maps published by the Sanborn Map Company housed in the collections of the Geography and Map Division. ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 1867-01-01

  • Introduction To The Collection - Sanborn Maps

    (This article was published within the Library's publication, Fire Insurance Maps: in the Library of Congress) Key for interpreting Sanborn fire insurance maps The Sanborn map collection consists of a uniform series ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Overview - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    This presentation focuses on the various documents—from maps to newspapers to cultural artifact—that help to describe the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • The Louisiana Purchase - Louisiana European Explorations And The Louisiana Purchase

    Napoleonic France Acquires Louisiana On October 1, 1800, within 24 hours of signing a peace settlement with the United States, First Consul of the Republic of France Napoleon Bonaparte, acquired Louisiana from ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2007-08-13

  • Sanborn Time Series - Sanborn Maps

    Fire insurance maps are valuable to much historic research because they often provide evidence of change over time. Specific changes in an individual site such as when a building was expanded or ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Overview - American Revolutionary War Maps

    The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. Most ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2008-08-04

  • Mapping The American Revolution And Its Era - American Revolutionary War Maps

    Increased North American exploration in the 18th century created a great demand for improvement in the poor quality of existing maps, charts, and plans. An engraved view of a sea drama published ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 2008-08-04

  • Maps Of Great Smoky Mountains National Park - National Parks Maps

    Early European Maps | American Maps and Map Makers | Exploration and Geological Mapping | Environmental Maps | Early USGS Maps | USGS and the TVA -- Topographic Quadrangle Maps | National ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map
    Date: 1999-06-02

  • History Of Railroads And Maps - Railroad Maps 1828 To 1900

    Railways were introduced in England in the seventeenth century as a way to reduce friction in moving heavily loaded wheeled vehicles. The first North American "gravity road," as it was called, was ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-10-19

  • Overview - Military Battles And Campaigns

    This category contains maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation. ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page

  • General Atlases - General 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 ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Web Page - Map

  • Overview - Maps Of Liberia 1830 To 1870

    This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, ...

    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Map - Web Page
    Date: 1998-10-19

  • Creating the Bill of Rights, Creating the United States Exhibit

    The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, passed by Congress in 1789, became the bedrock of individual rights and liberties.

    Contributor: James Madison - Thomas Jefferson - George Washington - John Adams - Abigail Adams
    Site: LOC.gov web pages
    Original Format: Book - Manuscript/Mixed Material - Map - Photo, Print, Drawing - Web Page

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