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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: 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
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This is a guest post written by G&M summer intern, Elizabeth Dorokhina. This post explores maps of the Trans-Siberian Railway, especially, how cartography shows more than just a limited geographical area, but political, social and economic issues across the world.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Asian History, Guest Posts
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This blog post discusses the project done this summer during a Junior Fellowship at the Geography and Map Division. The post highlights Marie Tharp’s 1957 Physiographic Diagram of the Atlantic Ocean, other physiographic diagrams from the G&M collections, and why Tharp chose this kind of map in particular to depict the ocean floor.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Guest Posts
Posted by: Julie Stoner
While working as a Junior Fellow this summer, Champ Turner worked with a collection of maps of Brazil. In this blog post, he tells the story, through maps, of an expedition taken by Teddy Roosevelt and Cândido Rondon in 1913 down the River of Doubt in the Brazilian Amazon.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Exploration, Guest Posts, South American History
Posted by: Julie Stoner
An armillary sphere is a model of the heavens featuring a central globe with a framework of rings around it that represent celestial bodies and features. This blog post will discuss these astronomical objects, highlighting the division’s oldest globe and armillary sphere, made by Caspar Vopell in 1543.
Posted in: 16th century cartography
Posted by: Julie Stoner
The Geography and Map Division has thousands of topographic maps in its collections but some have a unique take on the rest of the category. This blog post highlights several maps and models that stand out as being different in form and shape from other topographic maps including a chocolate bar map, a pop up map, and a map made of compressed paper among others.
Posted in: 20th century cartography, Physical Geography
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This post highlights some of the maps that were scanned and made available on the Library website in 2024.
Posted in: 16th century cartography, 19th century cartography, Series: A Year in Review
Posted by: Julie Stoner
This blog post highlights unusual maps found in the Geography and Map Division collections including a chart of port cities, a history of the Civil War, and a railroad organization chart.
Posted in: 19th century cartography, Big Data and Visualization