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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

Colorful 18th-century map of eastern North America

Virtual Orientation to the Geography and Map Division: Tuesday 10/8

Posted by: Amelia Raines

A photograph of the Vatican Library.

Cardinal Borgia’s Unusual Map of the World

Posted by: Cynthia Smith

Colorful map of the United States showing agricultural symbols

Unearthing the 20th Century’s Ground-Breaking Soil Surveys

Posted by: Meagan Snow

a map of the US in 1880s with shading to show density of certain kinds of manufacturing in each state

Made in America: U.S. Manufacturing in Gilded Age Census Maps

Posted by: Lena Mattson