Recently posted on H-WEST. I thought HISTARCH people would find it
interesting as well:
s for Maps on Westward Expansion
Date:
Mon, 09 Sep 1996 11:14:07 -0500
From:
Elliott West <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:
H-Net Western History List <[log in to unmask]>
To:
Multiple recipients of list H-WEST <[log in to unmask]>
H-Westers,
Below, courtesy of The Scout Report, is good news of two new
websites that will be of interest to many of you.
Elliott West, Co-Moderator
University of Arkansas
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The Scout Report ~~
September 6, 1996
A Publication of Net Scout Services
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin
A Project of the InterNIC
Two sites for US Historical Maps
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library--University of Georgia
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html
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
Two of the more impressive historical map sites on the Internet are: the
Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia; and
"Exploring the West from Monticello: A Perspective in Maps from Columbus
to Lewis and Clark," a collection of maps and navigational instruments
taken from an exhibition at the University of Virginia's Alderman
Library. 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.
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