A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2023
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This post highlights some of the maps that were scanned and made available on the Library website in 2023.
Posted in: Geography and Map Division, Series: A Year in Review
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A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2022
Posted by: Julie Stoner
On the Geography and Map Division home page, we keep a list of maps newly placed online. As has become tradition (see previous Year in Review posts), to celebrate the end of a year and to ring in the new, I take a look back at the digitized maps that are now available online from …
Posted in: 19th century cartography, 20th century cartography, Series: A Year in Review
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps – An Orientation and New GIS Tools
Posted by: Julie Stoner
Please join us for the second session in a new series of virtual orientations for the Geography and Map Division, focusing on our collection of fire insurance maps! Date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2022 Time: 3:00-4:00 pm (Eastern) Location: Zoom Register Here Reference librarians Amelia Raines and Julie Stoner will present an introduction to the fire insurance maps housed …
Posted in: 19th century cartography, 20th century cartography, Geography and Map Division
A Year in Review: Newly Scanned Maps of 2021
Posted by: Julie Stoner
Every month on the Geography and Map home page, we provide a monthly list of maps that have been scanned and added to the online collections of the Geography and Map Division. As has become tradition (see previous Year in Review posts), to celebrate the end of a year and to ring in the new, …
Posted in: Geography and Map Division, Series: A Year in Review
Magnificent Maps From the World Digital Library
Posted by: Julie Stoner
Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library [WDL] was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural objects, increasing access to cultural …
Posted in: 16th century cartography, 17th century cartography, 18th century cartography, 19th century cartography
More than a Metaphor: Maps of Mammoth Cave
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post by Kelly Bilz, Librarian-in-Residence in the Geography and Map Division. Beneath the surface of west-central Kentucky winds a complex system of rivers and grottos known as Mammoth Cave. Named “mammoth” for its size, the cave doesn’t have much to do with the creature—although mammoths and mastodons did live in Kentucky near Big …
Posted in: Exploration, Guest Posts, National Parks
That’s Just Hysterical: The Lindgren Brothers’ Tourist Maps
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post by Kelly Bilz, Librarian-in-Residence in the Geography and Map Division. If you’re buying a souvenir map, would you rather it be “historical,” or “hysterical”? The Lindgren Brothers aimed for the latter in their set of maps of American landmarks. With their distinct style—a yellow background, a blue (or sometimes red) border, and …
Posted in: Guest Posts
Verba Incognita: A Guide to Deciphering Latin on Maps
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post by Kelly Bilz, Librarian-in-Residence in the Geography and Map Division. Even though Latin had fallen out of vernacular use after the fall of Rome (and began to evolve into the modern Romance languages), it lived on in its written form, becoming the lingua franca, so to speak, of scholarship. In …
Posted in: 17th century cartography, 18th century cartography, Guest Posts
LC Maps for Robots
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post by Rachel Trent, Digital Collections and Automation Coordinator in the Geography and Map Division. Interested in bulk downloading maps from the Library of Congress’s online collections? Need a corpus of historical map images to build a training dataset for your machine learning model? Looking to learn more about Python or APIs? Curious …
Posted in: 21st century cartography, Guest Posts