Images
American Memory
Historical Collections (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/),
consists of primary source and archival materials relating
to American culture and history. These historical collections are the key
contribution of the Library of Congress to the National Digital Library.
Most of these offerings are from the Library's unparalleled special collections.
Some of the collections of interest include:
Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel
Gottscho and William Schleisner, 1935-1955. Approximately 29,000
photographs
of buildings, interiors, and gardens of renowned architects and interior
designers.
The Evolution of the Conservation
Movement, 1850-1920
Multiformat collection of photographs, printed
works (including government documents), and manuscripts documenting the
conservation movement in the United States. Features an album of paintings,
photographs, and scientific and literary works produced by the Harriman
Alaska Expedition in 1899.
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the
Detroit
Publishing Company, 1880-1920.
25,000 photographs of turn-of-the-century
America from the Detroit Publishing Company.
Color Photographs from the Farm
Security Administration and the Office of War Information, ca. 1938
to 1944.
Photographs of rural and small town America during the late 1930s
and scenes of the defense and war mobilization effort from 1939-1944.
Washington as it Was: Photographs by Theodor
Horydczak, 1923-1959.
Over 14,000 photographs of buildings, business,
news, and human interest items in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World's
Transportation Commission, 1894-1896.
Views of foreign countries and
their native forms of transportation.
National Register
Travel Itineraries (http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/tourism.html)
National Capital Parks-Central
(http://www.nps.gov/nacc/)
Includes links to: Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, National
Mall , Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, Pennsylvania Avenue, from the Capitol to the White House,
and Constitution Gardens.
Maps
Panoramic
Maps
U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, they show street patterns, individual buildings,
and major landscape features in perspective.
The Temporal Urban
Mapping page
documents human-induced land transformations in large metropolitan
areas. Examples showing changes in urban growth over time are illustrated
through both static
maps and animated maps of major urban areas.
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)
is a page which includes examples and other web links.
Earthshots
Landsat images showing environmental changes.
Landview III: Environmental Mapping Software.
Location: Mic. & Docs. Online: EP 1.104/4:CD-TGR 95-LV 3-
A set of 11 compact discs which offers a complete mapping
system. The discs cover regions of the United States from the state boundaries
to the street network. All discs have basic census data for several levels
and five Environmental Protection Agency databases.
SeaView: Satellite Imagery of the Southeastern U.S. Coast.
Location: Mic. & Docs. Online: C 55.54:Se 1/CD
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