Armchair Traveler

Get set to travel to far-flung locations and down-home sites at the click of a mouse. Join Library of Congress tour directors who will lead you in surfing the Library’s online collections and resources from Aruba to Zimbabwe and from Rutland, Vermont to Redding, California. All Aboard!

Distant lands and far away places

1. Earth as Art: A Landsat Perspective, Exhibitions
   http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earthasart/
2. Places in the News from Map Collections: 1500 - 2004, American Memory
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/plnews.html
   Places in the News Archive: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/gmd:@band(@field(COLLID+newsmap))
3. Country Studies, Research Guides & Databases, Global Gateway
   http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
4. Portals to the World, Global Gateway
   http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
5. Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
   http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html

6. Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1896, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/
Select a Country Index
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtcitin.html

7. The Empire That Was Russia, Exhibitions
   http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
8. Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images, special presentation of Map Collections: Cultural Landscapes
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/macau/macau.html

Discovery in your own back yard

1. “American and European Scenery Compared,” James Fenimore Cooper in The Home Book of the Picturesque, 1852. The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/consrv:@field(DOCID+@lit(amrvgvg08div8))

2. Community Roots, Local Legacies project from the American Folklife Center
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/roots/ac-home.html

3. Working in Patterson: Occupational Heritage in an Urban Setting, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/pthome.html
Patterson’s Hot Texas Wiener Tradition
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wiphtml/essay6/essay6.html

4. Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html
Place Index - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/place.html
Miles Glacier, Alaska, Childs Glacier, Alaska c1911
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a16892))

5. America From the Great Depression to World War II, 1935 - 1945 American Memory
   Geographic Location Index
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fsageogindex1.html
6. Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920, American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html
   Geographic Index
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/detrgeogindex1.html

7. Built in America: Historic American Building Survey / Historic American Engineering Record, 1933-Present, American Memory
Place Index - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/place.html

8. Yellowstone National Park from The Frontier and National Identity: Tourism, Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West, Global Gateway
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfnid/ignyellow.html

9. The Alaska Line, 1934, from Map Collections: 1500 – 2004, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g4371a+mf000037))+@field(COLLID+trnsmap))

10. Alaska: Tourism and Transportation, Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West, Global Gateway
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfak/mfaktour.html

11. Rivers, Edens, and Empires, Exhibitions
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/
Prologue (See second section for Waldseemüller map.)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewis-prologue.html

Recording your adventures – postcards, diaries, scrapbooks

1. Russian Postcards from The Frontier and National Identity: Tourism, Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West, Global Gateway
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfnid/ignruspost.html

2. American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920, American Memory
1. Brown, William. (1849) America: A four years' residence in the United States and Canada, Chapter X: ”Some American Characteristics”
   http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbtn:@field(DOCID+@lit(lhbtn05309div12))
2. United States – Description and Travel
   http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/lhbtnbib:@field(SUBJ+@od1(United+States--Description+and+travel+))

c. Search Page (Search on the term “holiday.”)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhbtnbibquery.html

3. Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1830-1890, American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/
The Log of Mystic Seaport: Four Essays, Special Presentation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/myessays.html

4. Mutual Perceptions: Travel Accounts, Tourism and Transportation, Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West, Global Gateway
   http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/perceptrvacc.html
   (Select Eleanor Prey or John Ledyard.)