Digital Collections
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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?
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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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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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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 Virginia - Virginia Historical Society - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1999
Collection Items: View 2,338 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 1,023 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 6,770 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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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: Allied Forces. Army Group, 12th. Engineer Section - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - United States. Army. Army Group, 1st. Headquarters
- Date: 200?
Collection Items: View 424 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: Hébert, John R. - Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division - Dempsey, Patrick E. (Patrick Eugene)
- Date: 1997
Collection Items: View 1,521 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 - American Colonization Society - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 1998
Collection Items: View 30 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 1,203 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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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 3,779 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 4,500 Items
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CollectionGeospatial Applications Story Maps and web maps produced at the Library of Congress utilize geospatial technology to create curated entry points into our digital collections. We invite you to explore the incredible stories of…Collection Items: View 121 Items
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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 1,435 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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CollectionSamuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919 Approximately 6,500 items from the Samuel F. B. Morse Papers in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress have been digitized, including correspondence, diaries, printed matter, maps, drawings and miscellany. These…- Contributor: Clausing, Ludwig - Morse, Samuel Finley Breese - Magnetic Telegraph Company
- Date: 1793
Collection Items: View 142 Items
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CollectionChinese Rare Book Digital Collection The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection draws from the 5,300 titles of Chinese rare books housed at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The online presentation includes nearly 2,000 digitized…Collection Items: View 1,990 Items
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CollectionParallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier This online collection contains books, maps, prints and photographs, manuscripts, and other documents from the Library of Congress collection that was originally made available as Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and…Collection Items: View 389 Items
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CollectionThomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, consist of approximately 25,000 items, making it the…- Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1606
Collection Items: View 26,691 Items
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CollectionMontgomery C. Meigs Papers The papers of army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892) consist of 11,000 items (42,508 images), most of which were digitized from 51 reels of previously produced microfilm. Spanning…- Contributor: Meigs, Montgomery - Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham)
Collection Items: View 323 Items
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CollectionGeographers on Film Geographers on Film are a collection of recorded interviews conducted with hundreds of geographers from August 1970 until the mid-1980s, which includes scholars, and cartographers who have shaped the discipline. Interviews with…Collection Items: View 30 Items
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CollectionJay I. Kislak Collection The Jay I. Kislak Collection of the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas is composed of important archaeological artifacts, rare books, manuscripts, maps and graphic works of art, which survey the…Collection Items: View 363 Items
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CollectionThe Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana The collection contains more than 11,100 items. This online release presents more than 1,300 items with more than 4,000 images and a date range of 1824-1931. It includes the complete collection of…- Contributor: Library of Congress - Stern, Alfred Whital - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1824
Collection Items: View 1,535 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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CollectionCharles Wellington Reed Papers, 1776 to 1926 The papers of Civil War soldier and artist Charles Wellington Reed (1841-1926) span the years 1776-1926, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1862-1865, when he served with the…- Contributor: Reed, Charles Wellington
- Date: 1776
Collection Items: View 36 Items
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CollectionWorld Digital Library This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections.…Collection Items: View 19,407 Items
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CollectionJohn J. Pershing Papers The diaries, notebooks, and address books of John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948), U.S. army officer and commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, are part of a larger collection of…- Contributor: Pershing, Helen F. (Helen Frances) - Pershing, John J. (John Joseph)
- Date: 1860
Collection Items: View 91 Items
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CollectionAinu and Ezochi Rare Collection This collection of rare materials brings together books, manuscripts, and maps produced during the 18th and 19th centuries that document Japanese exploration and observation of the island and prefecture now known as…Collection Items: View 92 Items
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CollectionWorld War History: Newspaper Clippings, 1914-1926 This vast online collection of World War I era newspaper clippings is from a single unique source: the 400-volume, 80,000-page set, World War History: Daily Records and Comments as Appeared in American…Collection Items: View 407 Items
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CollectionPuerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives The digital collection Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives is one component of a collaborative project undertaken by the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and…- Contributor: Library of Congress. Hispanic Division - Library of Congress - Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program
- Date: 2000
Collection Items: View 72 Items
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CollectionZachary Taylor Papers The Zachary Taylor Papers, one of twenty-three presidential collections in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, contains approximately 650 items dating from 1814 to 1931, with the bulk from 1840 to 1861.…- Contributor: Taylor, Zachary
- Date: 1814
Collection Items: View 21 Items
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CollectionEdwin McMasters Stanton Papers, 1818-1921 The papers of lawyer and Secretary of War Edwin McMasters Stanton (1814-1869) span the years 1818-1921, with the bulk of the material originating between 1862 and 1870. They consist of approximately 7,650…- Contributor: Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters)
Collection Items: View 56 Items
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CollectionJubal Anderson Early Papers The papers of United States and Confederate army officer, lawyer, and Virginia state legislator Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894) consist of 5,000 items (5,368 images) in 18 containers. Spanning the years 1829-1930, the…- Contributor: Early, Jubal Anderson
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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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CollectionYongle Da Dian The Yongle da dian 永樂大典, or Yongle Encyclopedia, stands out as one of the most extensive attempts in world history to capture the entirety of human knowledge in book form. The 41…Collection Items: View 43 Items
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CollectionFine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915 The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku. The Library…- Contributor: Utagawa, Yoshikazu - Ochiai, Yoshiiku - Utagawa, Sadahide - Utagawa, Yoshitoyo - Utagawa, Kuniteru - Utagawa, Yoshitora - Andō, Hiroshige - Ikkei - Utagawa, Hiroshige
- Date: 1615
Collection Items: View 2,770 Items
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CollectionDrawings (Master) Background and Scope: Joseph Pennell Drawings Some 4,700 drawings created by American artist, illustrator, printmaker, and writer Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) are preserved in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Such…- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 203 Items
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CollectionSelections of Prayer Materials from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia The African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) holds a sizable collection of prayer materials from Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. Prayers commonly serve as a supplication, confession, or praise, among…Collection Items: View 118 Items