Tagged As: Historic

Mapping the American Landscape

Lecture by former UW-Madison cartography professor

David Rumsey to speak in Milwaukee

Leader in merging historical map images with web pages will present annual lecture

Light comes to PLSS notes & Bordner surveys

Major historical land records for Wisconsin have appeared on the web recently.

History of Cartography Project has good news

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation have awarded grants to the History of Cartography Project.

Lewis & Clark maps popping up

Two hundred years ago President Thomas Jefferson was orchestrating the organization of the expedition to explore the lands that had just been added to the public domain through the Louisiana Purchase.

First map of “America” belongs to the U.S.

The only known copy of the map believed to have first designated the New World as "America" now belongs to the Library of Congress.

Historical Info. Mapped Online

In the midst of efforts to continue, expand, and preserve their collections with ever-shrinking resources, the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) recently launched the Wisconsin Archaeological and Historical Resources Database (WisAHRD) website.

WI Historical Society’s Map Archives

With thousands of maps, atlases, and plat books, the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) map archives are a treasure trove, one of the key caches of our state’s rich mapping heritage.

History strikes again

In this continuing series of retrospectives, my pattern is to look back ten and twenty-five years to see what was happening in Wisconsin mapping.

Lewis & Clark maps on display in Washington

part of exhibit commemorating 200th anniversary