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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 a geographic area larger than a city or town and do not display a subject that is part of one of the thematic categories.
- Date: 1290
Collection Items: View 6,735 Items
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CollectionFinding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond A thematic collection exploring changing models of the universe through time, ideas of life on other words and Carl Sagan’s place in the tradition of science. It features manuscripts, rare books, celestial atlases, newspaper articles, sheet music and movie posters.
- Contributor: Druyan, Ann - Sagan, Carl - Macfarlane, Seth
- Date: 1495
Collection Items: View 351 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 religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
- Date: 1500
Collection Items: View 3,765 Items
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MapMuriel H. Parry map collection The collection consists of some 871 maps that are largely pictorial. Muriel H. Parry, a librarian for the U.S. State Department, compiled the maps and several were deaccessioned from the State Department's library. Formats in the collection include single map and maps in books, magazines, calendars, and advertisements. In addition, there are maps on napkins, gift cards, cloth, etc. Included are maps by Ernest...
- Contributor: Parry, Muriel H. - Chase, Ernest Dudley - Clegg, Ernest - Shelton, Hal - Gill, Macdonald - Harrison, Richard Edes - Wallingford, Daniel K.
- Date: 1538
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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. Some of the maps are manuscripts drawn on the field of battle, while others are engraved including some that have manuscript annotations reflecting the history of the battle or campaign. A significant...
- Date: 1570
Collection Items: View 4,495 Items
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MapRichard 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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MapEngineering 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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MapGary 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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CollectionSanborn 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. The online checklist is based upon the Library's 1981 publication Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress and will be continually updated to reflect new acquisitions.
- Date: 1867
Collection Items: View 35,139 Items
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MapHeezen-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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MapHammond World Atlas Corporation archive of print records and samples of printing methods 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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MapWar 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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MapCharles 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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MapRichard Edes Harrison maps and papers collection Maps, including manuscript maps, professional and personal papers of cartographer-artist Richard Edes Harrison that highlight his influence on popular cartography from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection includes examples of work from Fortune, Life, Time, and the U.S. government, among others. It consists of illustration boards, tracing sheets or paper sheets, photoreproductions, and proof prints or printed sheets. Most items are manuscript materials...
- Contributor: Harrison, Richard Edes
- Date: 1920
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MapCharles 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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MapThomas 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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MapElmo 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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MapBertha 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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MapThomas 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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MapPaul 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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MapNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Board of Geographic Names map proofs collection 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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MapAnthony A. Faranda World War II maps, photographs, and papers collection 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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MapOtto 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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MapSolomon 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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MapGlenn 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