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• The Scotsman on the NLS Map Collection

  
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  “You could lose yourself in here,” says The Scotsman ’s Peter Ross , in his expansive piece about the National Library of Scotland’s map collection . Via MapHist . The Scotsman on the NLS Map Collection first appeared on The Map Room: A Weblog About Maps on November 23, 2009. Copyright © 2009 ...
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• Manitoba Historical Maps

  
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  I grew up in Winnipeg, so I was thrilled to discover the thousand-plus maps of Winnipeg, Brandon and the rest of Manitoba posted on the Manitoba Historical Maps Flickr account. The maps include old city maps, transit maps, insurance maps, planning maps, topo maps, highway maps — some of which I actually recognized ...
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• Mapping New Yorks Shoreline, 1609-2009

  
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  Vanity Fair points to Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 , an exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwartzman building that runs until June 26, 2010 ( exhibition details here ). Drawing on The New York Public Library’s collection of Dutch, English, French, and American mapping of the ...
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• Another Look at the Linda Hall Librarys Celestial Atlases

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 569
  The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology in Kansas City, Missouri gets a mention in the travel section of the New York Times (in an article on rare book collections that are accessible to the public) for its collection of celestial atlases . Via MapHist . On past exhibitions of the Linda ...
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• Sanborn Maps at the Library of Congress

  
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  The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Online Checklist is the Library of Congress’s online, continuously updated version of its 1981 publication, Fire Insurance Maps in the Library of Congress . The searchable database provides listings of the 50,000 editions of Sanborn Maps held by the Library , with links to images ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Fourth Part of the World

  
  The Map Room — Authority: 569
  I had thought that all the books about Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 map of the world — you know, the one that first named “America” — would have come and gone with the 2007 quincentennial of the map, but I’d forgotten about Toby Lester’s book, The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Katip Çelebi Ottoman Map and Cultural Exhibition

  
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  An exhibition of 16th- and 17th-century Ottoman maps is taking place right now at Cal State San Bernadino’s Anthropology Museum . The Katip Çelebi Ottoman Map and Cultural Exhibition features cartographic works by Çelebi and Piri Reis (whom you may have heard of), and runs until October 31. The touring ...
  4 weeks ago

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