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    Newsmap Collection, 1942-1946 The Newsmap collection contains 212 maps prepared and distributed by U.S. Army Information Branch from 1942 until 1946. They were designed to inform and motivate American military personnel. The two-sided newsmaps include maps depicting the previous week's events in the war, as well as brief news items, photographs, and graphics.
    • Contributor: United States. Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch
    • Date: 1942
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    Maps showing entrenchments in France during World War I at a ... The collection consists of 477 maps from World War I created by American and French forces that show trenches and related military information in France and Belgium. Maps are scaled at 1:20,000. Data taken from aerial photography ("tranchées d'après photos ... ") and observation ("Schématique d'apres renseignements"). Some maps are in color and are sized at 100 x 100 cm or smaller. Relief shown...
    • Contributor: France. Armée. Service Géographique - Summerall, Charles Pelot
    • Date: 1915
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    David Cook Washington Post map collection Collection of 41 photocopied maps drawn by David Cook for the Washington Post from 1990 through 1995. Maps cover national and international events. Some maps are proofs and contain suggested edits.
    • Contributor: Cook, David W.
    • Date: 1990
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Arctic Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 370 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Arctic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Otto A. Ewaldsen World War II map collection Otto A. Ewaldsen served in the U.S. Army 650th Engineer Topographic Battalion during World War II. He authored the book Mapping was our mission: the military history of the 650th Engineer Topographic Battalion during Word War II, August 1942 to April 1946: from Camp White Oregon to Japan. The collection consists of maps of Japan, photocopies of American military bases in Oregon that appeared...
    • Contributor: Ewaldsen, Otto A.
    • Date: 1943
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    George Dewey map collection The collection includes maps from disbound atlases of China published in 1893 and 1895, maps from a disbound atlas of Ohio geology published in 1879, and various other maps, such as a USGS map of Washington, DC and a newspaper map of the Panama Canal.
    • Contributor: Dewey, George
    • Date: 1879
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    Ethel M. Fair map collection This special map collection was culminated by map librarian Ethel M. Fair (1884-1979). It consists of pictorial maps produced in several formats, and ranges in period from the 1840s to the 1960s. Some are cartoon maps, while others are cartographs. Unusual formats include maps on place mats, napkins, table cloths, and handkerchiefs. The collection contains mostly tourist maps, road maps, educational maps, and commercial...
    • Contributor: Fair, Ethel M. (Ethel Marion)
    • Date: 1843
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    Ian Mumford World War II cartographic intelligence reports co... The collection contains nine British intelligence cartographic reports created during World War II. The areas covered by the reports include Germany, Italy, and France, among other places in Europe. The reports are supplemented with aerial photographs and are arranged by sortie number. The collection also contains three British government manuals, which include maps, that relate to the history of the British Ordnance Survey.
    • Contributor: Mumford, Ian
    • Date: 1939
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    War map : pictorial and propaganda map collection 1900-1950 A collection of 180 pictorial and propaganda maps that illustrate events related to World War I, the interwar years, World War II, the formation of the United Nations, and the Cold War. While many of the pieces were created as governmental propaganda, others appeared in commercial publications, including the Star Weekly, Fortune Magazine, the Daily Mail, and the Los Angeles Examiner. Some of the...
    • Contributor: Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Stiles, Ezra C. - Manning, F. E. - Harrison, Richard Edes - Rose, Fred. W. (Frederick W.) - Kampf, Arthur
    • Date: 1900
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    Robert Clift World War II map and papers collection Robert Clift served as a navigator in the 492nd Bomb Group during World War II. The second lieutentant flew on missions from February 22 to April 26 in Europe. He took part in hazardous, low-level insertion missions of Allied agents behind enemy lines. His unit received a citation from the War Department in 1947. The collection consists of a map that illustrates sixteen missions...
    • Contributor: Clift, Robert
    • Date: 1945
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    Diroca World War II map collection The collection consists of 21 maps from Newsmap, The Times Atlas, Time Magazine, and others that depict World War II. Some maps contain supporting textual information. Also included is an atlas of Italian territorial claims following World War I.
    • Date: 1918
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    Charles Lee Burwell collection of materials related to World ... The Charles Lee Burwell Collection consists of one model, consisting of rubber on foam backing, prepared for "Operation Overlord," the Allied invasion of Utah Beach, Normandy, France; and an operational plan, maps, aerial photography, and photographs assembled by Burwell in preparation for "Operation Anvil," an amphibious landing of Allied troops on the southern coast of France in August 1944.
    • Contributor: Burwell, Charles Lee
    • Date: 1944
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    Anthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers... Anthony A. Faranda served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He was attached to the 8th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in the South Pacific Theater. The collection consists of captured Japanese maps, textual documents concerning military map creation and printing, and wartime photographs.
    • Contributor: Faranda, Anthony A. (Anthony Albert)
    • Date: 1943
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : World/Miscellaneous This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 5890 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the ocean floor represented in worldwide depictions and also contains miscellaneous materials. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Herman R. Friis cartographic manuals collection The Hermann R. Friis collection contains cartographic manuals published by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Army, War Department, and Geological Survey. A number of the manuals are from World War II, which discuss aerial photographs and military map symbols. Maps in the manuals include: the world, North America, the United States, Montana, Scandinavia, and France, among others. These maps exemplify different cartographic techniques.
    • Contributor: Friis, Herman R. (Herman Ralph)
    • Date: 1905
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    Hal Shelton manuscript map collection The Hal Shelton collection contains 33 manuscript maps, an exhibit flyer, and an interview with Shelton on two audio tapes. NASA employed this collection of maps by Shelton to index photos of Earth taken on early space missions. The maps represent Shelton's use of natural colors that added realism in the depiction of landforms while retaining orthographically accurate position and scale for each feature....
    • Contributor: Shelton, Hal
    • Date: 1949
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    Luther E. Grim and Dorothy H. Grim map collection The collection consists of 32 pictorial, tourtist, and road maps published between 1942 and 1964. The materials depict the moon and various locations in the United States. Several of these maps were designed for classroom instruction. Publishers include Armour and Company, General Drafting Company, Esso Standard Oil Company, among others. Included is an envelope from the Armour and Company addressed to Mrs. Dorothy H....
    • Contributor: Grim, Luther E. - Grim, Dorothy H.
    • Date: 1942
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    Charles E. Goad fire insurance map collection, 1894-1909 Charles E. Goad fire insurance map collection contains 41 maps that depict 17 cities in the Caribbean area, Mexico, and South America. Charles E. Goad (1848-1910), a noted cartographer and civil engineer, published the maps between 1894-1909. The maps include information relevant to fire insurance appraisal, such as size of building, number of floors, and usage (commercial, educational, residential); construction materials (concrete, brick, wood,...
    • Contributor: Goad, Charles E.
    • Date: 1894
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Pacific Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 4162 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Pacific Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Elmo N. Pickerill map collection The collection consists of four air route atlases and one airport map of locations in the United States.
    • Contributor: Pickerill, Elmo N. (Elmo Neale)
    • Date: 1931
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    Morton L. Deyo World War II map collection The collection consists of maps related to Morton L. Deyo's role as a naval task force commander during World War II. Six of the maps depict amphibious landing intelligence in southern France. Two maps show operations in the Pacific.
    • Contributor: Deyo, Morton L. (Morton Lyndholm)
    • Date: 1944
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    Adam Hérold Collection of Materials Relating to the Sino-Fren... The Adam Hérold collection consists of manuscript maps, plans, and charts of Northern Vietnam, as well as reports, a post journal, and various personal papers related to the Sino-French War in Tonkin.
    • Contributor: Hérold, Adam
    • Date: 1883
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    Engineering Societies Library map collection The Engineering Societies Library was formed in 1915 and became a world-renowned research center. It closed in 1998. The library's map collection consists of geologic and mineral resources maps, topographic surveys, city plans, railroad maps, nautical and aeronautical charts, lake surveys, and boundary studies.
    • Contributor: Engineering Societies Library
    • Date: 1800
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    Ronald Greeley lunar map collection, 1963-1970 The Ronald Greeley lunar map collection contains nine preliminary geologic maps of sections of the Moon created by the United States Department of the Interior from 1963 to 1970.
    • Contributor: Greeley, Ronald
    • Date: 1963
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    Neil Sheehan map collection The collection consists of 72 maps, and the most unique among them is an annotated map of the Battle of Tan Canh that occurred during the U.S. drawdown from the war in 1972. The other items include a disbound atlas of South Vietnam; various maps of North and South Vietnam; and U.S. military maps of South Vietnam and Cambodia. The materials appear to have...
    • Contributor: Sheehan, Neil - Vann, John Paul
    • Date: 1964
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Antarctica This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 716 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Antarctic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Bertha Schooler Sohn map collection The collection consists of seventy-five maps depicting locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Japan.
    • Contributor: Sohn, Bertha Schooler
    • Date: 1932
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    Reid family map collection The collection consists of eleven cartographic items that illustrate roads and home development in San Mateo County and Burlingame, California.
    • Date: 1925
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    Washington Post Persian Gulf War map collection Collection of 40 newspaper clippings that contain maps drawn by David Cook and others for the Washington Post in 1991 that illustrate the Persian Gulf War.
    • Contributor: Cook, David W.
    • Date: 1991
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    Harry W. Frantz map collection, 1922-1950 Harry W. Frantz map collection contains eight maps related to commerical aviation routes, airmail routes, and an aeronautical chart. The materials were published between 1922 and 1950. Frantz was a correspondent for the United Press International and reported on aviation.
    • Contributor: Frantz, Harry W. (Harry Warner)
    • Date: 1922
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    Robert S. Bond World War II map collection Robert Shirly Bond was a forward artillery observer for the 6th Armored Division during World War II. Bond’s unit helped to liberate France and participated in the Battle of the Bulge and the invasion of Germany. The collection consists of road maps used during the war, a commemorative map illustrating the 6th Armored Division’s role in the war, and a map from the Korean...
    • Contributor: Bond, Robert S.
    • Date: 1941
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    Peyton Conway March map collection Peyton Conway March was the Chief of Staff of American forces in World War I. This collection of maps and textual materials were created for teaching the principles of coordinating and directing artillery fire.
    • Contributor: March, Peyton Conway
    • Date: 1916
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    John Fox World War II map collection A collection of 17 photomaps (Mosaic No. 41) created by the 942nd Engineer Topographic Battalion of the Eighth Air Force. The photomaps depict the German cities of Coblenz (Koblenz), Bendorf, and Neuwied, and the surrounding area. The photomaps were created during World War II.
    • Date: 1944
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    Samuel C. Phillips map and chart collection The collection consists of 32 maps and charts that depict Apollo missions and the Northern Hemisphere.
    • Contributor: Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran)
    • Date: 1947
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    Joel L. Morrison collection : gray literature on the origins ... Joel L. Morrison was active in the development of geospatial data standards, bringing together diverse efforts within the United States to create the Spatial Data Transfer Standard. He compiled a large body of papers on the topic from professionals around the world. His collection of gray literature and white papers from 1963 to 2001 by cartographic and geographic experts from around the world. The...
    • Contributor: Morrison, Joel L.
    • Date: 1963
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    David L. Quaid World War II map collection The collection consists of 21 photocopied maps that are annotated and depict operations of Merrill's Marauders during World War II. Maps labeled 1 to 7 concern the Marauder's 1944 campaign in Burma, in which the unit captured the Japanese airfield at Myitkyina.
    • Contributor: Quaid, L. David
    • Date: 1940
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    Hauslab-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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    Clarence F. Smith map collection The collection consists of a map of Germany and a see-through grid.
    • Contributor: Smith, Clarence F.
    • Date: 1943
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    Richard M. Look map collection The collection consists of 218 maps that primarily depict Japan. Most items are Army Map Service (AMS) and tourist maps; other maps depict subways, parks, and cities. Additional maps depict locations in North America and Europe.
    • Contributor: Look, Richard M. (Richard Millard)
    • Date: 1691
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    Inter-Service Topographical Department World War II map colle... The Inter-Service Topographic Department collection contains 1045 maps, aerial photographs, and drawings from World War II. The ISTD (1940-1946) was a joint British army and navy program that supplied topographic intelligence for all combined British military operations. The department was created following the failed British invasion of Norway (April 9 - May 9, 1940), during which British army and navy intelligence units operated independently...
    • Contributor: Great Britain. Inter-Service Topographical Department
    • Date: 1940
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    Glenn R. Fackler World War II map collection The Glenn R. Fackler World War II map collection contains 11 reproductions of maps from the publication titled Eleven war maps with the dates of important events in World War II. The book was published in 1945 by the Geographia Map Co. of New York. The donor's reproductions were not large enough to completely cover the contents of the maps. Three textual documents are...
    • Contributor: Fackler, Glenn R. - Gross, Alexander
    • Date: 1945
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    Copeland railroad survey collection H.H. Copeland and Son commissioned the materials that contain information about railroads in the United States from 1917 to 1958. The collection includes maps and data concerning railroad traffic density, tables on ton miles, freight density and traffic distribution, and other railway related tables and calculations. H. H. Copeland and Son were an investment house in existence from the late nineteenth century to around...
    • Date: 1917
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    Charles Oscar Maas map collection, 1920-1997 The collection consists of four maps that depict New York, steamboat lines in North America, Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal. Maas, the compiler, was Lieutenant Commander, USNFR, Assistant Naval Attache to the American Embassy in Paris, France.
    • Contributor: Maas, Charles Oscar
    • Date: 1920
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    Thomas F. Peel World War II map collection The collection consists of 14 maps that date to World War II. Some maps depict waritme situations in France and Germany and others show military bases in the United States. The collection also contains a celebratory campaign map the U.S. 13th Armored Division, known as the Black Cats. Peel annotated some of the maps.
    • Contributor: Peel, Thomas F. (Frederic)
    • Date: 1936
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    Andres Soriano map collection The collection consists of five maps and two atlases depicting the Philippines.
    • Contributor: Soriano, Andres
    • Date: 1935
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    David Recht nautical chart collection The collection consists of 5 nautical charts depict coastal waters and harbors in Palestine and Lebanon.
    • Contributor: Recht, David
    • Date: 1940
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    The Office of Strategic Services maps on microfilm collection A microfilm collection of maps that were used by The Office of Strategic Services in World War II. The maps provide coverage for all continents with strong emphasis on Europe and Southeast Asia. The maps depict political or physical features. The OSS needed to quickly build a map library quickly and acquired maps represented in this collection from the American Geographical Society in New...
    • Contributor: United States. Office of Strategic Services
    • Date: 1919
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    William Rea Furlong map collection William Rea Furlong was a United States Navy Rear Admiral during World War II, who also served in the Navy during World War I. The collection consists of World War I-era maps and charts. One chart from 1918 depicts German and British minefields along the coast of England and a portion of continental Europe. Other items are nautical charts of Aegean Sea with annotations.
    • Contributor: Furlong, William Rea
    • Date: 1870
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    J. Thomas Schneider map collection The collection consists of three maps. Two maps depict the Western Front during World War I and the other map depicts military bases in the United States in 1917.
    • Contributor: Schneider, J. Thomas (John Thomas)
    • Date: 1917
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    Wallace R. Brode map collection Collection of 6 maps from the Wallace R. Brode Papers. The materials include maps of the 1936 Russian solar eclipse, a World War II bombing map of the Leuna works in Germany, tourist maps of Yugoslavia and Russia, and a U.S. State Department map showing areas restricted to travel by Soviet citizens.
    • Contributor: Brode, Wallace R. (Wallace Reed)
    • Date: 1936
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Atlantic Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 9600 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Atlantic Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    Jack Eshe World War II aeronautical charts collection Jack Eshe was an American B-17 bomber pilot in World War II. He donated a collection of 13 G.S.G.S aeronautical charts of Great Britain, France, and Germany. The charts were published during the war. Also included in the collection is a "Time Distance Computer, Type 4... Property of the U.S. Army." It was used to compute true altitude and true air speed.
    • Date: 1942
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    Maps showing entrenchments in France during World War I at a ... The collection consists of 156 maps from World War I created by American and French forces that show trenches and related military information in France. Maps are scaled at 1:10,000. Data taken from aerial photography ("tranchées d'après photos ... ") and observation ("Schématique d'apres renseignements"). Some maps are in color and are sized at 100 x 100 cm or smaller. Relief shown by contours...
    • Contributor: France. Armée. Service Géographique
    • Date: 1916
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    Aaron Schoen World War I map collection Aaron Schoen was a Second Lieutenant in the American 3rd Division, 18th Field Artillery during World War I. He was attached to a French unit to study their methods of ballon and airplane observation. He marched into Germany with the French, and the maps document their advance across Europe. The maps contain his annotations and included among them is a captured German map.
    • Contributor: Schoen, Aaron
    • Date: 1917
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    C. R. Hughes Embargo Act of 1807 map tracings collection A collection of eight manuscript map tracings by C.R. Hughes, a printer based in Berryville, Virginia. Six maps illustrate how members of Congress voted on the Embargo Act of 1807. The other maps show the 1816 Massachusetts gubernatorial election and how electors in Georgia voted in the 1816 presidential election.
    • Contributor: Hughes, C. R.
    • Date: 1807
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    Arthur J. Goldberg celestial chart and map collection The collection consists of two celestial charts published by National Geographic and seven tourist maps that depict locations in the Mid-Atlantic states, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, and Japan. Golderberg, the compiler, had a career as a lawyer, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, secretary of labor, and United States representative to the United Nations.
    • Contributor: Goldberg, Arthur J.
    • Date: 1959
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    Waldo R. Tobler collection : the beginnings of computerized g... Materials from Waldo R. Tobler's time as an Assistant Professor to Professor at the University of Michigan from 1961 to 1977 and portions of his thesis when a student at the University of Washington from 1957 to 1961. Items in the collection include manuscripts, lectures, published papers, manuscript maps, early cartographic computer programs, and instructional materials.
    • Contributor: Tobler, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph)
    • Date: 1954
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    Hammond World Atlas Corporation archive of print records and ... The Hammond World Atlas Corporation archival collection consists of map sculptures, printing separations, and business records (index cards) that document the 100-year publishing history of the company. Hammond was known for its extensive line of world, historical, school, and thematic atlases, but the company also issued a wide variety of other cartographic items, including maps, globes, and transparencies during the last 100 years. It...
    • Contributor: Hammond Incorporated
    • Date: 1900
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    Willard B. Prince collection of World War I maps and related ... The Willard B. Prince collection of World War I maps and related materiels contains Prince's wartime diary, manuscript maps, printed maps, postcards, photographs, letters, personal papers, military reports, and other materials. Sgt. Major Willard B. Prince served as a mapmaker in the 5th Division of the United States Army during World War I. After the war, Prince worked for the Downtown Athletic Club and...
    • Contributor: Prince, Willard B. - Stevenson, Kenyon
    • Date: 1917
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    John W. Moyer map collection The collection consists of 17 maps owned by John W. Moyer that show India and also various world maps. Moyer contributed to the Library of Congress the photograph collection titled India and Her People.
    • Contributor: Moyer, John W. (John William)
    • Date: 1948
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    Peter L. Stark World War II map collection The collection consists of three items, which includes a guide to reading aerial photography, a book of photomaps of Central Luzon, and an AAF Cloth Chart of the East China Sea.
    • Contributor: Stark, Peter L. (Peter Leroy)
    • Date: 1942
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    Paul Swazuk World War II map and papers collection Paul Swazuk served as a corporal in the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He participated in the D-Day parachute operations in Normandy, France, glider landings in Holland during Operation Market Garden, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. His unit liberated a concentration camp, and after the war, he served in the Amercian sector of occupied Berlin. The collection consists of...
    • Contributor: Swazuk, Paul
    • Date: 1942
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    Progressive military maps of the United States A collection of 1344 topographic map sheets created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1894 to 1945 that covers the continental United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Panama Canal Area. The maps illustrate tactical and geographic features, such as military bases, landing strips, transportation networks, communication centers, and topography. The maps are labeled in one of three ways: Tactical,...
    • Contributor: United States Army Corps of Engineers
    • Date: 1894
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    Wallace E. Dreyer World War II map collection The Wallace Earl Dryer World War II map collection consists of Army Map Service maps of Italy and Northwest Europe, a Dutch map of the Western Front, and a German map of Holland. Dryer served in the American army and was a painter and photographer after the war.
    • Date: 1941
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    Everett Strait Hughes map collection Everett Strait Hughes was a colonel in the artillery of American Expeditionary Force in World War I. During World War II, he served closely with Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Allied Supreme Commander in Europe. The collection contains two maps with annotations showing the American zone of occupation in Germany in 1919 and of its headquarters in Coblenz, Germany.
    • Contributor: Hughes, Everett Strait
    • Date: 1919
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    Solomon Mullin World War II map collection The Solomon Mullin World War II map collection contains 23 annotated flak maps of Western Europe that depict German anti-craft fire upon American bombers from July 1944 to April 1945. Additional war records include five of Solomon Mullin's flight plans, five documents related to his military service, and a receipt of donation.
    • Contributor: Mullin, Solomon
    • Date: 1945
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    Paul E. Mortimer map collection The collection consists of an aeronautical map of Germany from 1938 published by the Reichsluftfahrtministerium and a letter to the donor, Paul E. Mortimer.
    • Contributor: Mortimer, Paul E. (Paul Eugene)
    • Date: 1938
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    Laura Wood Roper map collection The collection consists of four maps that depict locations in Chicago, San Francisco, Staten Island, and Hartford, Connecticut. Frederick Law Olmsted helped create each of the maps.
    • Contributor: Roper, Laura Wood - Olmsted, Frederick Law
    • Date: 1871
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    Charles B. Peterson III road map collection, 1911-2007 The Charles B. Peterson III road map collection contains maps collected by Charles B. Peterson III dating from 1911 to 2007. The maps cover locations in the United States, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Peterson, as a child, began collecting maps from gas service stations and later wrote letters to publishers, in which he requested maps. Peterson described each map...
    • Contributor: Peterson, Charles B. III (Charles Buckley)
    • Date: 1911
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    William McKinley map collection, 1890-1906 The collection consists of 14 maps associated with the larger collection of papers belonging to former U.S. President William McKinley that are held in the Manuscript Division. This collection includes an annotated Russo-Japanese War map, a religious-themed map, a map of Vermont, weather maps, maps of religious missions in China, annotated U.S. railroad maps, an annotated map of Yellowstone National Park, blueprint maps, and...
    • Contributor: Huebinger, M. (Melchior) - McKinley, William
    • Date: 1890
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    J.F. Sanders World War II aeronautical chart collection The collection consists of fourteen sectional aeronautical charts that date to World War II and depict locations within the United States.
    • Date: 1943
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    McConnell's Economic Surveys collection The McConnell's Economic Surveys collection is a set of manuscript maps and plans that primarily concerns economic development projects in the City of Los Angeles and southern Califorina from 1920s to 1970s. The surveys were conducted by Cormac McConnell on behalf of various businesses and other entities in order to anticipate construction costs and the likely profitability of business situated in a said geographic...
    • Contributor: McConnell's Economic Surveys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
    • Date: 1920
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    Carl Chance Korean War map and papers collection Carl Chance was a lieutenant in the 180th Infantry Regiment in the Korean War. The map and collection illustrate the regiment's engagement with Chinese forces on July 13-14, 1953.
    • Contributor: Chance, Carl
    • Date: 1953
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    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ma... The collection consists of 2 maps and a map overlay. The map with the overlay depicts Omaha, Nebraska, in the 1960s and contains annotations that show "negro neighborhoods" that indicate population density. The other map is of Detroit, Michigan and presumbly dates from the 1960s.
    • Contributor: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
    • Date: 1960
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    George Sabin Gibbs map collection George Sabin Gibbs served as Chief Signal Officer of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I and supervised the completion of the Washington-Alaska cable. The collection consists of seven printed maps of communications lines and military installations in the United States and Cuba from 1903 to 1907.
    • Contributor: Gibbs, George Sabin
    • Date: 1903
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    Thomas F. Saarinen collection Thomas F. Saarinen was a geographer who extended the technique of mental or cognitive mapping to the world scale. He collected the first broad, worldwide sample in his research project titled, Parochial Views of the World. The collection consists of the raw data from that project and represents findings and administrative issues. Specifically, present are some 3,900 sketch maps of the world drawn by...
    • Contributor: Saarinen, Thomas F. (Thomas Frederick)
    • Date: 1986
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    Thomas R. Yanosky collection, 1928-1996 The Thomas R. Yanosky Collection relates largely to his cartographic and artistic careers and accomplishments. Included are items documenting is contributions to shaded-relief mapping, as well as his study of color and design in cartography; materials pertaining to his experience as an instructor at the Army Map Training Center; and samples of his own artwork. A second section of the collection contains materials relating...
    • Contributor: Yanosky, Thomas R. (Thomas Raphael)
    • Date: 1928
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    Charles Pelot Summerall map collection The collection consists of manuscript maps, annotated printed maps, printed maps, photocopied maps, and captured German maps compiled or created by the American general Charles Pelot Summerall. Chiefly from World War I, the maps show battles and campaigns, including the Meuse-Argonne, Saint Mihiel, and Verdun. The collection also includes maps of Camp Zachary Taylor, Fort Bragg, and ports in the southeastern United States. Additionally,...
    • Contributor: Summerall, Charles Pelot
    • Date: 1889
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    World War II military intelligence map collection : declassif... Compiled by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the collection consists of 21,231 maps, charts, photographs, photo-maps, diagrams, illustrations, and supporting documents organized into 281 reports/containers. The materials were used by the Americans, British, and Germans to plan military operations during World War II. All items are desclassified. The folders/containers are housed in nine banker's boxes.
    • Contributor: United States. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
    • Date: 1931
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    John Leonard Hines map collection The John Leonard Hines map collection consists of maps of World War I, including annotated tactical maps; maps of Mexico related to Hines' part in the Mexican Punitive Expedition; maps of Asia, as Hines was stationed in the Philippines; maps of military camps in the United States; maps of the Allied occupation of the German Rhineland, where Hines was stationed; and maps related to...
    • Contributor: Hines, John Leonard
    • Date: 1906
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    World War II unit route maps collection, 1944-1945 The World War II unit route maps collection consists of maps created by individual U.S. military units commemorating and outlining their movements, engagements, and routes of travel during the second World War. The maps primarily depict historical and geographic landmarks and major events pictorially. Most maps were created by units of the U.S. Army at the division and battalion level, and many are undated,...
    • Date: 1944
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    Wallace Atwood Jr. map collection Wallace served in the Army as director of the topographic model section of the Army Map Service during World War II. The collection consists of photographs of terrain models showing locations within the European, African, and Asian theaters of operation.
    • Contributor: Atwood, Wallace Walter, Jr
    • Date: 1941
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    Tasker Howard Bliss collection of World War I maps and relate... The map collection was amassed by General Tasker Howard Bliss (1853-1930) during his World War I military service and then as a U.S. representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
    • Contributor: Bliss, Tasker Howard
    • Date: 1815
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    Gifford Pinchot map collection The collection consists of 7 maps from the nineteenth century. Five maps depict locations in Europe and two maps depict loctions in the United States. Eleven other items are cataloged separately. Consult the finding aid for more information.
    • Contributor: Pinchot, Gifford
    • Date: 1830
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    Francis R. Valeo map collection, 1954-1980 The Francis R. Valeo Map Collection comprises twenty-six maps for the period 1954-1980, and no date, and cover mainly East Asia, specifically Japan, Hong Kong, and Macau
    • Contributor: Valeo, Francis R. (Francis Ralph)
    • Date: 1954
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    Herold J. Wiens collection, 1939-1971 Consists of pen and ink drawings, pencil sketches, facsimiles, and photographs of aerial views showing all or part of China during the period of World War II. The collection also consists of technical drawing equipment, notes, charts, atlases, some books, personal folders, letters, correspondence, and other miscellaneous items.
    • Contributor: Wiens, Herold J. (Herold Jacob)
    • Date: 1941
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    Heezen-Tharp collection Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp worked for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Science Observatory of Columbia University and mapped the ocean floor from 1957 to 1977. Heezen was geologist and Tharp was a cartographer. The collection consists of the textual materials, photographs, and scientific data. Related maps and globes are held by the Geography and Map Division and cataloged separately.
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1876
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    Richard Houston Payne World War II map collection The collection consists of World War II-era maps and photo-maps of Japan by the U.S. Army Map Service and the U.S. Hydrographic Office. The materials show Japanese cities, military bases, airfields, and anti-aircraft defenses. Some are stamped "Confidential" or "Restricted." Additional materials include maps of Japanese-occupied Korea and Manchuria, along with map proofs of locations in East Asia and the North Pacific.
    • Contributor: Payne, Richard Houston
    • Date: 1944
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    National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Board of ... The collection consists of 19 map proofs by the U.S. Coastal and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey. The maps contain handwritten annotations and stamps to correct or update placenames.
    • Contributor: United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
    • Date: 1939
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    S. R. Carvo World War II map collection Collection of 19 maps or photomaps of Italy during World War II. Photomaps are planning materials from Operation Avalanche. Maps are from various series published by the British War Office, United States Army Map Service, and the United States Joint Army Navy Intelligence Section.
    • Contributor: Carvo, S. R.
    • Date: 1942
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    G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the... The G. Malcolm Lewis collection of cartographic activities of the North American Indian and Inuit peoples at the Library of Congress is an archive of historical geography research compiled over nearly three decades. This collection consists of over 6000 items of research materials used to investigate the cartographic encounter between Indigenous nations of North America and explorers and colonists from Europe. In this archive...
    • Contributor: Lewis, G. Malcolm
    • Date: 1972
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    James Fowler Simmons map collection The collection consists of one map in seven sections of the American Northwest; another map is cataloged separately. Consult the finding aid for more information.
    • Contributor: Simmons, James Fowler - Frémont, John Charles - Preuss, Charles
    • Date: 1848
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    Charles P. Taft map collection, 1948-1966 19 cartographic items for the period 1948-1966, and no date, including maps, map order forms, map indexes, and a tourist guide.
    • Contributor: Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps)
    • Date: 1948
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    J. Neilson Barry manuscript maps collection tracing the explo... The collection consists of J. Neilson Barry's map studies of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and his map studies of the route of John Colter, a member of the expedition.
    • Contributor: Barry, J. Neilson (John Neilson)
    • Date: 1936
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    Town plan maps of Oregon City maps issued by the Oregon Department of Transportation showing highways, streets, parks, railroads, schools, public buildings, section corners, water features, land features, and various boundaries.
    • Contributor: Oregon. Department of Transportation
    • Date: 1986
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    Heezen-Tharp collection : Indian Ocean This sub-collection of the Heezen-Tharp maps and papers collection contains some 1311 cartographic items and supporting materials that are related to Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp's mapping of the Indian Ocean floor. The item types include manuscript and published maps, soundings, reports, and other scientific data. The materials are stored offsite at Ft. Meade and must be requested advance of visiting the Geography and...
    • Contributor: Heezen, Bruce C. - Tharp, Marie
    • Date: 1957
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    William A. Bostick World War II charts and maps collection William A. Bostick World War II charts and maps collection consists of facsimiles of cartographic illustrations prepared for the 1945 book The Ampibious Sketch: Its Function in Amphibious Training and Operations. The items illustrate Utah and Omaha beaches, where American forces landed during the Normandy invasion in 1944. On verso are sunlight and moonlight tables, beach gradient graphs, and current and tidal data. Transperancy...
    • Contributor: Bostick, William A.
    • Date: 1944
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    G.E. Mueller map collection The collection consists of 17 maps transferred from the G.E. Mueller papers, 1876-2012. Mueller collected tourist, road, and air route maps published between 1952 and 1983. Most maps show locations in Central America; other maps depict places in the United States and Europe. Mueller was an engineer, administrator of U.S. manned space flight program, and corporate executive.
    • Contributor: Mueller, G. E. (George Edwin)
    • Date: 1952
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    Gary W. North map collection The collection consists of 13 remote-sensing maps of locations in the United States, 1 remote-sensing map of the Amazon Basin, and 7 illustrations concerning the NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS-1), which became known as Landsat 1. The materials are covered in Mylar and appear to have been part of an exhibition created by Gary W. North that includes one small banner. In addition,...
    • Contributor: North, Gary W.
    • Date: 1821
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    Karl Bender World War II German military intelligence map col... Collection of maps used by the German army and airforce during World War II to plan military operations in Russia, Norway, and other locations. Includes aerial photography. The collection also contains one postwar map showing occupation zones in West Germany and a map set of Asia created before World War I.
    • Date: 1909