Borchert Map Library Featured Items tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012-03-13:/maplib/featured//16102 2013-04-19T18:11:00Z Featured items from the John R. Borchert Map Library collection at the University of Minnesota Movable Type Enterprise 4.31-en The Essential Geography of the United States tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2013:/maplib/featured//16102.393050 2013-04-19T17:55:52Z 2013-04-19T18:11:00Z This map was created by Dave Imus and won the "Best of Show" award at the Cartography and Geographic Information Society competition in 2012. Stop by the Map Library to view the map or click on the image to... Ryan Mattke

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This map was created by Dave Imus and won the "Best of Show" award at the Cartography and Geographic Information Society competition in 2012.


Stop by the Map Library to view the map or click on the image to view the catalog record.

]]> You can read more about the map and its creation in this article from Slate.


Dave Imus was also recently featured on The Story.


More information is also available from Imus Geographics.

]]> U.S. Explorers 1501 to 1844 tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/maplib/featured//16102.377128 2012-11-21T21:39:27Z 2013-04-19T17:55:20Z This map was published as part of a United States Geological Survey Bulletin in 1923. It shows the "routes of the principal explorers" in the United States between 1501 and 1844. Click on the image to view the full... Ryan Mattke

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This map was published as part of a United States Geological Survey Bulletin in 1923.


It shows the "routes of the principal explorers" in the United States between 1501 and 1844.


Click on the image to view the full size map.

]]> Though the map data was compiled in 1907, the map was published in a bulletin titled Boundaries, areas, geographic centers and altitudes of the United States and the several States with a brief record of important changes in their territory.

You can view citation information for this bulletin at the USGS Publications Warehouse.

]]> Lake Superior (1832) tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/maplib/featured//16102.353052 2012-11-06T14:22:11Z 2012-11-06T20:20:51Z This map was published as part of a volume titled Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. The SDUK, as the Society was known, produced inexpensive maps to encourage broad use in education. Though the atlas... Ryan Mattke

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This map was published as part of a volume titled Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.


The SDUK, as the Society was known, produced inexpensive maps to encourage broad use in education.


Though the atlas was published in 1844, individual maps were produced as early as 1829.

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Other maps from Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge can be viewed on the David Rumsey Map Collection site.

For more information on the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, click here.

]]> Asiae Nova Descriptio tag:blog.lib.umn.edu,2012:/maplib/featured//16102.346163 2012-05-08T20:33:42Z 2012-10-03T15:24:05Z This is the oldest original map in the Map Library collection and was donated through the Ames Library of South Asia collection. It was produced in the 1570s by Abraham Ortelius for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (literally "Theater of... Ryan Mattke asia1579.jpg

This is the oldest original map in the Map Library collection and was donated through the Ames Library of South Asia collection.

It was produced in the 1570s by Abraham Ortelius for his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (literally "Theater of the World"), which is considered to be the first modern atlas. ]]> To download a large version of this map, click here!

To view other maps donated through the Ames Library of South Asia collection, click here.

For more information on the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, click here.

If you are interested in viewing the entire atlas, just stop by the Map Library -- we have a reproduction of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum available for viewing in the library.

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