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Bird’s eye view of the city of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York<\/em>, 1871. Map, 50 \u00d7 71 cm. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a year-in-review post earlier this month, the Library of Congress’s map blog took a look at some of the maps that had been digitized for the first time in 2018<\/a>. (Here’s the equivalent post for 2017<\/a>.) For more frequent updates, the Library’s Geography and Map Division provides monthly lists of maps<\/a> that have been scanned and added to their online collections, but they’re PDF documents and not very readable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a year-in-review post earlier this month, the Library of Congress’s map blog took a look at some of the maps that had been digitized for the first time in 2018. (Here’s the equivalent post… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,66],"class_list":["post-1786985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-libraries","tag-library-of-congress","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2965,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/library-of-congress-conference-celebrates-500th-anniversary-of-waldseemullers-carta-marina\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786985,"position":0},"title":"Library of Congress Conference Celebrates 500th Anniversary of Waldseem\u00fcller’s Carta Marina","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Later this week, the Library of Congress will host a two-day conference celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseem\u00fcller's 1516 map,\u00a0Carta Marina.\u00a0Facts or Fictions: Debating the Mysteries of Early Modern Science and Cartography will take place on 6-7 October in the Coolidge Auditorium in the Library's Thomas Jefferson Building in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Manuscript Page from the 1516 Carta Marina. 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