![Detail from Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at London and Paris. [London : John Senex, 1725?] Geography and Map Division. LC call number G8200 1725 .S4](https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/files/2019/07/default-2.jpg)
Paradise in the Realm of the Hottentots
Posted by: Mike Klein
German genocide in southwest Africa
Posted in: African History
Archive: July 2019 (4 Posts)
The Los Angeles Oil Boom Through Maps
Posted by: Tim St. Onge
Los Angeles is world famous for its sunny beaches and Hollywood glamour, but did you know that the California metropolis has a long history as a booming oil city? At both large and small scales, maps help tell the stories of this often forgotten part of the Los Angeles’s past and present. The first commercially …
Posted in: City Histories
Millard Fillmore: Lawyer, President, and Map Collector!
Posted by: Ed Redmond
President Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) was elected to the Office of the Vice President of the United States in 1848 and, due to the untimely death of President Zachary Taylor in 1850, Fillmore became the 13th President of the United States. From the standpoint of the Geography and Map Division, however, Millard Fillmore’s most important contribution …
Posted in: Biography
The Great Game and the Boundaries of Afghanistan
Posted by: Cynthia Smith
Letts’s bird’s eye view of the approaches to India by W.H. Payne was published in London during the early 1900s. Letts, Son & Co. sold stationary, maps and diaries, among them is this striking panoramic view that depicts Russian territory in the north marked with a red dotted line along the Amu Darya River. Mountain ranges, the …
Posted in: Asian History, Borders