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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:19:21 -0700
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Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Online Maps That Offer Journeys to the Past

>From NYTimes.com -- historic maps online, including a couple library sites.

Jenny Stone Muilenburg
University of Washington Libraries
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> Online Maps That Offer Journeys to the Past
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> By MICHAEL POLLAK
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> IT'S never too late to navigate with Prince Henry, raft down the
> Colorado with John Wesley Powell, chart the Pacific with Capt.
> James Cook or observe Longstreet's troops through a Union gunsight
> on Cemetery Ridge. All you need is a good map and a little
> imagination.
>
>  There are many historical map sites on the Web, maintained by
> libraries, universities, dealers and bibliophiles, with a wealth of
> precious color maps: works of art, with every coast and island,
> every schematic of a far-away fortified city, representing lives
> lost and knowledge won.
>
>  The Society for the History of Discoveries (www.sochistdisc.org),
> established in 1960 to stimulate teaching, research and publication
> on the history of exploration, and a 155- year-old British group,
> the Hakluyt Society (www.hakluyt.com), both list map seminars,
> magazines, bibliographies, histories and much else besides maps
> themselves.
>
>  And at www.philaprintshop.com /cook.html, visitors can view a
> selection of maps and prints from the charts of Captain Cook, the
> 18th- century explorer who was renowned for his mapmaking as well
> as his seamanship.
>
>  The Library of Congress has an extensive online map room. The
> American Memory collections from 1500-1999 (lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem
> /gmdhtml/gmdhome.html) are easy to use. Take Gettysburg: click on
> Military Battles and Campaigns, then Civil War Maps, and under
> Geographic Locations click on Pennsylvania. The maps have zoom
> options and guide maps to help you pinpoint small areas for
> close-ups.
>
>  The Discovery and Exploration section has a current feature on the
> 1562 map of the Americas by Diego Gutiérrez, a spectacular
> engraving, of which only two are known. Other maps include those of
> Lewis and Clark, copied from William Clark's 1804-1806 drawings.
> For John Wesley Powell, look up the Grand Canyon section under
> Conservation and Mapping the National Parks.
>
>  A major online map resource is the History of Cartography site
> from Tony Campbell of the British Library (ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps),
> which includes a link to a list of map image sites. From a 1753 map
> of Australia by Jacques Bellin that shows a huge southeastern
> peninsula instead of the island of Tasmania, one realizes how
> little Europeans knew about Australia's east coast until Captain
> Cook charted it 17 years later. There is also a link to the
> Endeavour Project, a Web-based project on Cook's voyages of
> discovery (coombs.anu .edu.au/~cookproj/home.html).
>
>  History of Cartography links include high-resolution maps of early
> European towns, facsimile maps from Mercator's 16th-century atlas
> of Europe (www.WalkingTree.com) and rarities from the Yale Map
> Collection. Try the 1723 map of the Black Sea, the first map
> printed in Turkish (www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/blsea723.gif).
>
>  Mercator's World, a periodical, has a number of maps on its Web
> site (www.mercatormag.com). Some of the articles and advertisements
> have beautiful online examples.
>
>  There is an ongoing, multivolume History of Cartography project
> edited by Dr. David Woodward at the University of Wisconsin and
> published by the University of Chicago Press
> (www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart). The project includes a 1414 map
> based on Ptolemy's writings and a 1526 map of a Mediterranean
> island presented to Suleyman the Magnificent.
>
>  The online version of "Private Passions, Public Legacy: Paul
> Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia" (www.lib
> .virginia.edu/exhibits/mellon) includes some of the world's great
> rarities, like a printed letter sent in 1493 by Christopher
> Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella on his return from
> the New World.
>
>
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/02/technology/circuits/02GRAB.html?ex=9981253
62&ei=1&en=883f9ba951689c86
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www.sochistdisc.org
www.hakluyt.com
www.philaprintshop.com/cook.html
lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps
coombs.anu.edu.au/~cookproj/home.html
www.WalkingTree.com
www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/blsea723.gif
www.mercatormag.com
www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart
www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/mellon

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