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Film, Video Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography (afternoon session)

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Title

  • Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography (afternoon session)

Summary

  • Cartographers during the U.S. Civil War invented new techniques and mapped the country--both Union and Confederate territories--more accurately than ever before in the nation's history. The afternoon session of this day-long conference included presentations on "Mapping the New Coasts of War,"Shedding a Little Light: Early Photographic Techniques Used to Reproduce Maps" and a reenactment and demonstration of the surveying and cartographic methods of the period, using original equipment.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2011-05-20.

Headings

  • -  Architecture, Landscape
  • -  Cities, Towns
  • -  Maps
  • -  Technology, Industry
  • -  War, Military
  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Government, World Affairs
  • -  Science, Technology

Notes

  • -  Group name: Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War.
  • -  Classification: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Classification: Military Science.
  • -  John Cloud, Robert Mergel, Adrienne Lundgren.
  • -  Recorded on 2011-05-20.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688683

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division. Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography afternoon session. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-20, 2011. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688683/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division, S. B. (2011) Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography afternoon session. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688683/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Geography And Map Division. Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying and Cartography afternoon session. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-20, 2011. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688683/>.