Map Exhibits
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Mapping Movement - Newberry Library"Mapping Movement in American History and Culture is a publication of the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. This online archive and companion to the study, interpretation, and educational use of American maps of movement features more than five hundred high-resolution images of maps drawn from the extensive collections of the Newberry Library dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Accompanying thematic essays and image captions by leading scholars in their fields offer a variety of perspectives on the history and technology of American travel, transportation, commerce, and communications."
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Map Exhibit - From Colonialism to Tourism: Maps in American Culture, DPLA"This exhibit explores the cultural and historic impact of mapping through four specific moments in American history: migration along the Oregon Trail, the rise of the lumber industry, the Civil War, and the popularization of the automobile and individual tourism. It concludes with a look at maps in the age of computers, the Internet, and beyond. These moments demonstrate the influence maps have had over how Americans imagine, exploit, and interact with national geographies and local places."
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Map Exhibit - Land Beyond the Stars - Amerigo Vespucci & Martin Waldseemuller's map of the worldAn interactive display created by Museo Galileo in Italy, in partnership with the Library of Congress focusing on the 1507 map created by Waldseemuller.
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Mapping History from University of Oregon"The Mapping History Project has been designed to provide interactive and animated representations of fundamental historical problems and/or illustrations of historical events, developements, and dynamics. The material is copyrighted, but is open and available to academic users. Inquiries about the re-use of the material in a commercial or academic context should be sent to the editors."
