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Posted by: Julie Stoner
Join us on Tuesday, February 10 at 3pm Eastern for a virtual orientation discussing nautical charts in the Geography and Map Division collections at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Events, Geography and Map Division
Posted by: Tim St. Onge
Join us at the Library of Congress on Thursday, February 26th from 5pm to 8pm for Adventures in Topography, a special Live! at the Library event reaching new heights in terrain mapping! This event will feature a collections display, interactive games and crafts, and a talk by Tom Patterson, retired cartographer with the US National Park Service, on the history of topographic mapping techniques.
Posted in: Events, Geographic Information Science, Geography and Map Division, Physical Geography
Posted by: Lena Mattson
Sanborn Map Company fire insurance surveyors successfully mapped many thousands of cities and towns across North America, but they were often viewed with suspicion by locals and they were not granted access to every building they sought to map. This post describes what happened when they were refused, and the creative ways they could sometimes get around property owners’ reservations about their work.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, American History, Reference Tools
Posted by: Amelia Raines
A few short years after the United States won its independence, Christopher Colles set out to map the roads of the new republic. Created using a perambulator he had invented, his unfinished map series remains a fascinating record of the northeastern American landscape in the late 18th century.
Posted in: 18th century cartography, America 250, American History
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This post highlights some of the maps that were scanned and made available on the Library website in 2025.
Posted in: Geography and Map Division, Series: A Year in Review