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Posted by: Cynthia Smith
John Ross, a British naval officer led three Arctic expeditions. In 1818 and 1829, he led expeditions to find the Northwest Passage. In 1850, he led a rescue mission to find survivors from Sir John Franklin's lost expedition. This post features maps related to John Ross's Arctic explorations.
Posted in: 19th century cartography, European History, Exploration, Military History
Posted by: Meagan Snow
The 1970 Census was the first United States decennial census to be released in machine-readable format, allowing cartographers sudden access to large amounts of aggregated demographic data about the entire United States. This blog post explores early computer cartography mapping techniques that took advantage of the new census format, including SYMAP and SYMVU, as demonstrated in an atlas held by the Geography & Map Division titled “The Puget Sound Region: A Portfolio of Thematic Computer Maps.”
Posted in: 20th century cartography, American History, Big Data and Visualization, Geographic Information Science
Posted by: Abraham Parrish
This post will discuss the historic significance of portages and their depictions on maps found in the Geography and Map Division.
Posted in: 18th century cartography, 19th century cartography, 20th century cartography, 21st century cartography, American History, Exploring the Early Americas, Hydrology, Uncategorized
Posted by: Carissa Pastuch
This post highlights activities and events during the month of April in the Geography and Map Division.
Posted in: America 250, American History, Events, Exploration, Geography and Map Division
Posted by: Julie Stoner
Around 200 million years ago, the supercontinent of Pangaea began to break apart into the continents we know today. This post will explore the discovery of this continental drift theory through maps in the Library’s collections.
Posted in: 16th century cartography, 19th century cartography, 20th century cartography, Physical Geography