| Geography and Map Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/ Earth as Art-A Landsat Perspective Zoom Into Maps Map Collections Mapping the National Parks Trails to Utah and the Pacific-1846-1869 The Library of Congress/Ira Gershwin Gallery presents historical
maps of Los Angeles from the collections of the Library of Congress
Geography and Map Division. These diverse works of craftsmanship,
precision, and imagination provide a guide to some of the most remarkable
stories of the city's history: its discovery, its growth, and its
industries, as seen by explorers, engineers, artists, residents,
and boosters. Celebrating a thirty-year partnership between the Library of Congress
and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), the Maps
in Our Lives exhibition explores surveying, cartography, geodesy,
and geographic information systems--and draws on both the Library's
historic map collections and the ACSM collection in the Library
of Congress. From Robert Frost's New England farms to John Steinbeck's California
valley to Eudora Welty's Mississippi Delta, authors have described
the American landscape to evoke a strong sense of place. They have
peopled our land with memorable characters and woven into their
works the regional traits of a dynamic culture. Using the metaphor
of a journey, Language of the Land: Journey into Literary America
examines the following literary heritage though maps, photographs,
and the works of American authors from a variety of periods. For sixteenth-century Europeans, the most authoritative information
about the Americas was obtained from returning explorers and navigators.
Each pilot who accompanied a Spanish exploring expedition had to
deposit the logs and charts with the Casa de Contratación
(Board of Trade) in Seville, which became the repository for Spanish
travel information about the Americas. One of the most fascinating cartographic formats represented in
the Library's holdings is a collection of eight powder horns inscribed
with maps, dating from the time of the French and Indian War and
the American Revolutionary War. Münster, one of the most prolific geographers in the sixteenth
century, was the first map maker to publish separate maps of the
four continents, which originally appeared in his 1540 Basel edition
of Ptolemy's Geographia. In collecting cartographic materials relating to the events of
9/11, the Library's Geography and Map Division is concentrating
on documenting the role maps played in managing the recovery effort. The peoples who inhabited the semi-arid shores of the Mediterranean
were united in a common world view - as the name suggests, they
saw themselves as living at the center of the world. Memory Gallery A Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections Collection Connections
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