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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The remarkable career of Marie Tharp, the cartographer and scientist who helped map the ocean's floor for the first time in history, is preserved in her papers at the Library. A pioneering female scientist of 20th century, her work help lay the groundwork for the modern understanding of continental drift and plate tectonics.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, LCM, Maps, Women's History
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Great American Road Trip -- traveling the highways and backroads of the nation -- has been a national tradition since the invention of the automobile.
Posted in: LCM, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 world map was the first to name the New World as "America," for the Italian-born explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. The Library holds the only copy of the map known to still exist.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, LCM
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
All 23 sets of presidential papers held by the Library, a total of more than 3.3 million images, now are available and searchable online, an accomplishment more than two decades in the making.
Posted in: Abraham Lincoln, LCM, Library Work and Employees, Manuscripts, New Online, U.S. Presidents
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Russell Maret, a New York-based book artist and private press-printer based in New York City, writes a short essay about the art, craft and magic of transforming blank sheets of paper into a book, a process that can "transform the world."