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A panoramic view of the World's Columbian Exposition with illustrations, text and inset maps.

Chicago in 1893: Selected Maps of the World’s Columbian Exposition

Posted by: Cynthia Smith

State-level map (in color) showing working conditions for women by state

Illustrating Women’s Work: Early Maps of the Women’s Bureau

Posted by: Meagan Snow

a detail of the bathymetric map of the Caribbean Sea showing the Milwaukee Deep

Subduction Junction, What’s Your Function? (The Deepest Point in the Atlantic Ocean)

Posted by: Lena Denis

photomechanical print from painting of Rochambeau head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]

Franco-American Maps of the Revolution

Posted by: Carissa Pastuch

Black and white diagram showing the railway lines with straight lines and the organization around it with flowery, flowing lines and circles.

Is It a Map?! – Unusual Graphics in the Geography and Map Division

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Combined 4-sheet map showing agricultural areas and land use in Puerto Rico

A Patchwork of Plantations in Puerto Rico

Posted by: Amelia Raines

Painted map of world with sharp detail on ocean floor topography and deep blue colors at deepest ocean points.

Celebrate GIS Day and Ocean Mapping at Live! At The Library, Thursday, November 21st!

Posted by: Tim St. Onge

Drawing of Charles Brush's electric arc lighting system being demonstrated from a tower in Clevland's Public Square in 1879.

Lighting America: The Early Adoption of Electric Light

Posted by: Abraham Parrish

Scene of Battle of Lexington, with British redcoats in lines firing on running colonists in a field, with town buildings and forest in background.

The Maps of Amos Doolittle, the “Revere of Connecticut”

Posted by: Tim St. Onge