5 July 03

Historical Maps Online

I’ve been doing a bit of browsing lately for websites that feature online historical map collections, particularly for the United States. A couple of repositories seem prominent. The first is the Perry-Castaeda Map Collection at the University of Texas Library (their historical maps are here, and they also have a list of other historical map websites.) The second site is the American Memory digital archive for the Library of Congress. The page giving their map collections is here. Their Panoramic Map collection is especially interesting, giving bird’s eye views of cities from 1847-1929.

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  1. American Memory has been a favorite of mine for a long, long time. The “California as I saw it” collection is a gem and a must for anyone who wants to write about the Golden State.

    — Joel    5. July 2003, 22:03    Link
  2. Numenius,

    Recenly Jeremy Hedley of http://www.antipixel.com/blog/index.shtml (Antipixel) has been posting a series of historical maps of Japan. Some of them are very beautiful.

    cheers,
    butuki

    — butuki    5. July 2003, 22:05    Link
  3. Dear all -

    I have recently become very interested in the “pocket globes” of the 18th century, and I’d like to take a closer look at the beautiful detail of the celestial/terrestrial globes.

    I have therefore been trying to find a reproduction of the engravings/maps used for such globes, or a contemporaneous,larger-sized globe. Does anyone know of any books or internet sources that might reproduce these works in the flat (i.e. with the gores laid side-by-side rather than assembled into the three-dimensional globe)?

    I very much appreciate any suggestions you might have.

    Regards,

    Jen Keister

    — Jen    17. August 2003, 09:52    Link

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