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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Geography and Map Division recently acquired a rare 18th-century carving of a Theravada Buddhist cosmography that originated in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). The Library's John Hessler translates and explains the nine-foot-tall carving.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, Maps
Posted by: Neely Tucker
This edition of "Free to Use and Reuse" showcases some of the Library's copyright-free holdings of maps of cities.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Maps
Posted by: Neely Tucker
John Hessler, a specialist in the Library's Geography and Map Division, is tracking the COVID-19 pandemic with computational geography and geographic information science.
Posted in: Influeza/Covid-19, Maps, National Book Festival
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Geography and Map Division has several 19th-century maps that show how malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases spread across the nation. Produced long before current map-making technology, they still show how diseases spread across the landscape.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, Influeza/Covid-19, Maps
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Exploration into the unknown -- when much of the world's surface was not accurately mapped -- is the theme of this month's edition of the Library’s Free to Use and Reuse sets of copyright-free material.
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Maps
Posted by: Neely Tucker
A Nazi commemorative atlas of Operations Barbarossa was captured by U.S. troops after the fall of Berlin in World War II. The only one known to exist, it is housed in the Geography and Maps Division.
Posted in: History, Maps, World War II
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It’s time once again to dip into our Free to Use and Reuse sets of pictures, culled from the Library’s millions of copyright-free photographs, prints, maps and so on. This month, we’re featuring things that relate to ever-popular genealogy searches, as people look to uncover the secrets of their past by identifying their ancestors and the …
Posted in: Free to Use and Reuse, Genealogy, Maps, Photos, Pic of the Week, Women's History
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Myles Zhang, a senior at Columbia University, used maps from the Library of Congress to build animation showing the growth of New York City from 1609 to today.
Posted in: Maps, Researcher Stories, Technology
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Paulette Hasier, chief of the LIbrary's Geography and Map Division, is the ninth person and first woman to head the division since its creation in 1897. She talks about that work here.
Posted in: Maps, Researcher Stories