Digital Collections
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CollectionAmerican Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 The collection represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean.
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 1,436 Items
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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…
- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 3,798 Items
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CollectionCivil War Maps Brings together materials from three premier collections: the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Library of Virginia. Among the reconnaissance, sketch, and theater-of-war maps are…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Virginia Historical Society - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Virginia
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 2,338 Items
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CollectionDiscovery and Exploration This category documents the discovery and exploration with both manuscripts and published maps. Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th…
Collection Items: View 219 Items
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CollectionFrance in America This online collection presents digitized items from the Library of Congress collection originally made available as the France in America digital library project, a part of the Global Gateways initiative. Conceived in…
Collection Items: View 651 Items
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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…
- Date: 1290
Collection Items: View 6,772 Items
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CollectionHotchkiss Map Collection The Hotchkiss Map Collection contains cartographic items made by Major Jedediah Hotchkiss (1828-1899), a topographic engineer in the Confederate Army. Hotchkiss made detailed battle maps primarily of the Shenandoah Valley, some of…
- Date: 1828
Collection Items: View 350 Items
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CollectionLouisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase is a landmark event in American history, one that had a lasting impact not only on the size of the United States, but also on its economic, cultural, and…
Collection Items: View 82 Items
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CollectionMapping the National Parks This collection documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became National Parks. The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 173 Items
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CollectionMaps of Liberia, 1830-1870 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,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - American Colonization Society
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 30 Items
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CollectionMeeting of Frontiers Meeting of Frontiers is a project, originally funded by the United States Congress, devoted to the theme of the exploration and settlement of the American West, the parallel exploration and settlement of…
Collection Items: View 19,661 Items
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CollectionMilitary 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.…
- Date: 1570
Collection Items: View 4,502 Items
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CollectionPanoramic 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,…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Dempsey, Patrick E. (Patrick Eugene) - HĂ©bert, John R.
- Date: 1997
Collection Items: View 1,521 Items
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CollectionRailroad Maps, 1828-1900 Contains 623 maps chosen from more than 3,000 railroad maps and about 2,000 regional, state, and county maps, and other maps which show "internal improvements" of the past century. The maps presented…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 635 Items
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CollectionRochambeau Map Collection The collection consists of 40 manuscript and 26 printed maps, and a manuscript atlas, the originals of which are in the Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division.
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 200?
Collection Items: View 71 Items
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CollectionSanborn Maps The Sanborn Maps Collection Advanced Search 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. The…
- Date: 1867
Collection Items: View 35,145 Items
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CollectionSingle Sheet Maps, Title Collection The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress holds over 1.5 million single-sheet maps. Many of the single-sheet maps that were received by the Geography and Map Division before the advent of…
Collection Items: View 1,028 Items
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CollectionTransportation and Communication These maps document the development and status of transportation and communication systems on the national, state, and local level. Transportation maps can depict canal and river systems, cycling routes, railway lines and…
Collection Items: View 1,212 Items
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CollectionWorld War II Military Situation Maps This collection contains maps showing troop positions beginning on June 6, 1944 to July 26, 1945. Starting with the D-Day Invasion, the maps give daily details on the military campaigns in Western…
- Contributor: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - United States. Army. Army Group, 1st. Headquarters - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Allied Forces. Army Group, 12th. Engineer Section
- Date: 200?
Collection Items: View 424 Items