Interesting maps online, including historical atlas maps of Alameda (1878), Solano (1878) and Santa Clara (1876) Counties. NOTE - these are just three of the newest maps on the site - there are many more. One way to view these maps is to go to the homepage http://www.davidrumsey.com/, and click on "view collection with Insight browser." If you're familiar with the website on the San Francisco Museum, you'll know how the browser works - but you can click on any picture to make it as large as you want. For those of you interested in other parts of the country, there's plenty for all. Really neat map collection site! Carol Tucson, AZ >X-Sent-via: StarNet http://www.azstarnet.com/ >Delivered-To: [email protected] >Approved-By: Elliott West <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 08:58:50 -0500 >Reply-To: H-Net Western History List <[email protected]> >Sender: H-Net Western History List <[email protected]> >From: Elliott West <[email protected]> >Subject: Website: Historical Maps On-Line >To: [email protected] >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests= version=2.11 > >The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection focuses on >http://www.davidrumsey.com/add111501.htm rare 18th and 19th century North >and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the >World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. The collection >categories include old and antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime >chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children and manuscript maps. >Genealogy and family history can be studied on the maps. The online >collection, about 6,500 images, is an expanding cross section of digital >images designed to highlight the depth of the collection. The site contains >more than 50 complete rare atlases, including Thomas Jefferys's American >Atlas (1776), Guillaume Delisle's Atlas de Geographie (1731) and John >Arrowsmith's London Atlas (1844). You will also find maps from the >Philadelphia and London editions of Lewis and Clark's History of the >Expedition... (1814) and numerous maps of explorations of the American West >by Pike, Long, Fremont, Warren and others. The digitized maps are very high >resolution images scanned at at least 300 pixels per inch. A special GIS >(Geographic Information System) Browser allows integration and interaction >of historical maps with current geospatial data and other historical maps. >Examination of the maps in GIS reveals changes in the history of the areas >shown on the maps. Eleven historical maps of the San Francisco Bay area from >1851 to 1926 from the David Rumsey Collection are now available for viewing >in the GIS Browser. Other major U.S. cities will be added later. Carol De Priest <mailto:[email protected]> <http://www.azstarnet.com/~depriest/>