{"id":829,"date":"2009-12-18T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:38:24","slug":"american-geographical-society-library-%e2%80%93-digital-map-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/12\/18\/american-geographical-society-library-%e2%80%93-digital-map-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"American Geographical Society Library \u2013 Digital Map Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/12\/agsl2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-830\" title=\"agsl2\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/12\/agsl2.jpg\" alt=\"agsl2\" width=\"190\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=743\" target=\"_blank\">House Divided\u2019s map collection <\/a>a few weeks ago, another great resource is the American Geographical Society Library <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/libraries\/digilib\/maps\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Map Collection<\/a>. One can look through over 500 maps from around the world as well as from different eras (15th \u2013 21st century). This collection has lots of interesting maps to check out, such as world maps from <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,753\" target=\"_blank\">1818<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,445\" target=\"_blank\">1850s<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,442\" target=\"_blank\">1890s<\/a>, as well as city maps of major US cities like <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,68\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,50\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a>, and New York (<a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,9\" target=\"_blank\">1840 <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.lib.uwm.edu\/u?\/agdm,30\" target=\"_blank\">1871<\/a>). The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries hosts this collection and a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.uwm.edu\/libraries\/digilib\/\" target=\"_blank\">other digital projects <\/a>as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I highlighted House Divided\u2019s map collection a few weeks ago, another great resource is the American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection. One can look through over 500 maps from around the world as well as from different eras (15th \u2013 21st century). This collection has lots of interesting maps to check out, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,12],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century-1840-1880","category-maps","tag-us-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}