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>Subject:      Announcement of the addition of The American Revolution and Its
>              Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies,
>              1750-1789 to the American Memory online collections
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>Good morning,
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>The announcement of this new American Memory collection is being sent to
>a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate
>postings.
>
>The most recent addition to the American Memory online collections ”The
>American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and
>the West Indies, 1750-1789” presents an important historical record of
>the mapping of North America and the Caribbean online. Advancements in
>mapmaking tools and the onset of the French and Indian War and, later,
>the American Revolution, created a flurry of activity in European and
>North American mapmaking and publishing. This online collection will
>include well over two thousand different maps and manuscripts, with
>easily as many or more unnumbered copies, many with distinct colorations
>and annotations.  This collection can be found at the following url:
>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/armhtml/armhome.html
>
>Almost six hundred of these items are original manuscript drawings, a
>large number of which are the work of such famous mapmakers as John
>Montresor, Samuel Holland, Claude Joseph Sauthier, John Hills and
>William Gerard De Brahm. They also include many maps from the personal
>collections of William Faden, Admiral Richard Howe and the comte de
>Rochambeau, as well as large groups of maps by three of the best
>eighteenth-century map publishers in London: Thomas Jefferys, William
>Faden and Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres. Historical cartographers
>can compare multiple editions, states, and impressions of several of the
>most important maps of the period, follow the development of a
>particular map from the manuscript sketch to the finished printed
>version and its foreign derivatives, and examine the cartographic styles
>and techniques of surveyors and mapmakers from six different countries:
>Great Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, Italy, and the United
>States.
>
>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 online essay ”Mapping the American Revolution
>and Its Era” is taken from this bibliography.
>
>Please direct any questions about this collection to [log in to unmask]
>

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