Charting Their Journeys: Explorers Record the
From the search for a new trade route to the Orient to the
race for a lunar landing, explorers have charted their journeys in wonderfully
pictorial maps. What were the explorers’
impressions? What experiences and
observations prompted the explorers to record them on maps and charts? Who knew what, when? Join Ed Redmond, Geography and Map Reference
Specialist, Library of Congress, as we glimpse these journeys to the
1507 - Universalis cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei traditionem et Americi Vespucii
alioru[m]que
lustrations. Martin Waldseemuller,
Map Collections, American Memory
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3200.ct000725
1562 - Americae sive qvartae orbis
partis nova et exactissima descriptio / avtore Diego Gvtiero Philippi
Regis Hisp. etc. Cosmographo ;
Hiero. Cock excvde 1562 ; Hieronymus Cock excude cum gratia et priuilegio 1562. Diego Gutierrez, Map Collections,
American Memory
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3290.ct000342
“The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez,” Special
Presentation, Map Collections:
Discovery and Exploration, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gutierrz.html
1612 -
.http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3880.ct000377
1639 – Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt verthonendt alles wat van die landin by See, oft by
land is ondect oft Bekent. (Map of New
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/awkbhtml/kb-1/kb-1-2.html#track1
Carte de la Louisiane et du cours
du Mississipi [i.e.
1775 – Exploration and the American West, Meeting of
Frontiers:
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdiscvry/mfdiscv.html
The Russian discoveries from the map published by the
Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, [
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g7321s.mf000006
1750 - [Plat of survey for John Lindsey of 223 acres
in Frederick County, Va.]., George Washington. Map Collections, American Memory
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3883f.ct000355
George Washington:
Surveyor and Mapmaker, Special Presentation in Map Collections: Cultural Landscapes, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gwmaps.html
1814 - A map of Lewis and Clark's track across the western portion of North America, from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean : by order of the executive of the United States in 1804, 5 & 6 / copied by Samuel Lewis from the original drawing of Wm. Clark ; Neele, sculp.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4126s.ct000763
Rivers, Edens, and Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/
Lewis & Clark section of exhibition - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewis-landc.html
1857 - Map of the discovery of the East Coast of the
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g370931s.np00001a
Moon (subject term search), Map Collections, American Memory - http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@FIELD(SUBJ+@band(+Moon++))
Earth As Art: A Landsat
Perspective, Exhibitions
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earthasart/
American Notes: Travels in
"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement; 1850-1920 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amrvhtml/conshome.html
The First American West: The
Mapping the National Parks - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/nphome.html
Pioneering the
Trails to
Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1820 - 1890 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html
1492: An Ongoing Voyage - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
Maps In Our Lives - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/maps/
Collaborative Digital Collections - http://international.loc.gov/intldl/find/digital_collaborations.html
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The Atlantic World:
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Meeting of Frontiers:
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Parallel Histories:
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