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fyi mapfolk
 
I was pleased to see this citation on h-urban this morning, particularly the
info about the Maps of the West [sorry Johnnie] as I had just finished
examinging the American Libraries insert of reading resources to go along with
the lates Burns epic on The West to be seen on your local PBS station.  The
American Libraries handout, aimed at your generic librarians across the land,
has NOT ONE cartographic resource. [Steam is coming out my ears...]
 
So here at least is a Web resource we can all promote, and I wouldn't mind
hearing from others about map resources they would pull out for "show & tell"
during the hoopla while the series is on the air.
 
Isn't there a nice National Geographic map of the West from their series of
several years ago? and then, gee whiz, one of ALA's own Divisions, MAGERT, did a
book on the mapping of the West. So, go figure.
 
 
I checked out the UVA cite, and it is truly wonderful. Now the Georgia
stuff...is quite wonderful too.  Alice Hudson, Map Division, NYPL
 
 
 
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Subject: WWW: Historical Maps
Author:  Maureen Flanagan <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    9/12/96 7:33 AM
 
 
Posted by Martha J. Bianco <[log in to unmask]
 
Announcing two sites for US Historical maps:
 
1.  Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library--University of Georgia
        http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
2.  Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus
        to Lewis and Clark
        http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html
 
Hargrett's collection contains hundreds of images, and, as might be
expected, specializes in Georgia historical maps. However, it also contains
many national and international maps from the early new world, colonial, US
Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary eras. The actual size of each map is
indicated and author is given when available.
 
"Exploring the West" contains 33 items, topically arranged, from "Novus
Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669," to "To the Western Ocean:
Planning the Lewis and Clark Expedition." The power of this site is not so
much in the maps themselves, but in the lavish annotations that accompany
them. A bibliography and pointers to related sites are included.
 
Martha J. Bianco
Portland State University