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Illinois, Midwest Introduce landforms and continents
D.B. Cooke & Co's railway guide for Illinois showing all the
stations with their respective distances connecting with Chicago. Maps help us make sense of our world. A sampling of the Library
of Congress Geography and Map Division’s 4.5 million treasures
has been digitized and is available in Map Collections: 1500 - 2003.
This activity introduces historical maps from the American Memory
collections. A graphic organizer, for analysis and note taking,
and a set of guiding questions for each type of map have been provided. Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts
of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the
Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers
and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately
2,000 maps and charts. Over the next several years many of the maps
and charts in this bibliography will be added to the online collection
each month. This presentation focuses on the various documents—from maps
to newspapers to cultural artifact—that help to describe the
region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama
into what is now the state of Montana. The 119 items presented here
come from the various special and general collections of the Library
of Congress. The majority of items presented here are documented in PANORAMIC
MAPS of Cities in the United States and Canada, second edition (1984),
by John R. Hébert and Patrick E. Dempsey. Hébert and
Dempsey compiled a checklist of 1,726 panoramic maps of U.S. and
Canadian cities. A series of Landsat satellites have imaged the Earth's surface
for nearly thirty years, providing data for applications in business,
science, education, government, and national security. The Landsat
satellite currently in orbit is Landsat 7. This exhibition showcases
Landsat 7 images, from the collection of Landsat photographs held
in the Geography and Map Division,
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