8 10 258 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/bc959cfdd43d9d0acf221a0fc0c821c1.jpg 69a3c76adc7c8e9463b4da244cb69723 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elkhorn Ranch Subject The topic of the resource Westward Expansion; Ranching in the Dakota Territories in the 1880s; Theodore Roosevelt; Little Missouri River Description An account of the resource My curated map collection helps analyze how a particular space, the basin of the Little Missouri River in present day North Dakota, took on special personal meaning to Theodore Roosevelt in the 1880s. My project investigates how the land and people in the Little Missouri created a unique cultural and historical phenomenon that endured not just in Roosevelt’s conscience but also in the national imagination. My project will answer such questions as: what were the cultural and economic forces that led to a ranching boom in the Little Missouri Basin in the 1880s? How did the space change Roosevelt? How did he and others change the space? What cultural, ideological, and personal meaning did Roosevelt attach to the space, and how, and why? How did what happened there reflect or influence understandings of national identity in the latter half of the 19th century? I include these maps as texts and tools to provide context and analysis in answering these and other questions. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Josiah Corbus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2016 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Individual map Format notes Notes - Scale ca. 1:1,100,000. - From Second Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the Territory of Dakota (Grand Forks, Dakota 1886) (HE2709.D2) - LC Railroad maps, 275 - 70 x 57 cm. Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part Library of Congress Repository Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu Call Number G4171.P3 1886 .R3 URL or Unique Identifier Library of Congress Online Catalog: https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=STNO&searchArg=98688534&searchType=1&recCount=10 LCCN Permalink: https://lccn.loc.gov/98688534 Date Published 1886 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Official railroad map of Dakota issued by the railroad commissioners, November 1st, 1886. Subject The topic of the resource Dakota Territories in 1886; Railroads Subjects (from Library of Congress): - Railroads--North Dakota--Maps - Railroads--South Dakota--Maps - United States--North Dakota - United States--South Dakota Description An account of the resource Summary (from Library of Congress): Shows relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, township and county boundaries, Indians, and the railroads with lines named. My description: This 1886 Rand McNally map, created by the railroad commission, depicts the Northern Pacific railroad crossing the Dakota territory, along with counties, surveyed and parceled townships, towns, Indian reservations, and rivers. The map-makers preference human-made features, like railroads, and political divisions, like townships and counties, above natural features, of which there are very few designations aside from rivers. On the right side of the map, much more ink covers the page in the form of a township grid that covers the entire Eastern half of the territory. In the Western part of the territory, township grids cover only parts of the territory, principally along the Northern Pacific line and in the Black Hills. This lack of surveying demonstrates that in 1886, the "frontier," or the edge of American civilization, lay somewhere in the middle of the Dakota territory and that railroads were the mechanism by which civilization spread westward, at the expense, of course, of native peoples, whose reservations are indicated by shaded outlines. The area that Theodore Roosevelt settled in from 1883 to 1886 was at the edge of this frontier and, as it was located along the Northern Pacific line, was an area that was in the process of being settled and surveyed in the 1880s. By comparing this Rand McNally map from 1886 with a U.S. Department of the Interior map from 1882, which is also in my collection, we can see how Medora and the surrounding Little Missouri River basin was surveyed and split into townships in the intervening years. Roosevelt himself commented on how quickly the land went from wild to surveyed. In his 1913 autobiography, he looks back wistfully at what he views as a romantic, virgin period in the American West: “It was still the Wild West in those days, the Far West, the West of Owen Wister's stories and Frederic Remington's drawings, the West of the Indian and the buffalo-hunter, the soldier and the cow-puncher. That land of the West has gone now, ‘gone, gone with lost Atlantis,’ gone to the isle of ghosts and of strange dead memories. It was a land of vast silent spaces, of lonely rivers, and of plains where the wild game stared at the passing horseman. It was a land of scattered ranches, of herds of long-horned cattle, and of reckless riders who unmoved looked in the eyes of life or of death" (Roosevelt, An Autobiography). Roosevelt did not view this loss of Atlantis in all negative terms, however. In a subsequent passage, he cast the spread of American civilization in a positive, romanticized light: “It was right and necessary that this life should pass, for the safety of our country lies in its being made the country of the small home-maker. The great unfenced ranches, in the days of "free grass," necessarily represented a temporary stage in our history. The large migratory flocks of sheep, each guarded by the hired shepherds of absentee owners, were the first enemies of the cattlemen; and owing to the way they ate out the grass and destroyed all other vegetation, these roving sheep bands represented little of permanent good to the country. But the homesteaders, the permanent settlers, the men who took up each his own farm on which he lived and brought up his family, these represented from the National standpoint the most desirable of all possible users of, and dwellers on, the soil. Their advent meant the breaking up of the big ranches; and the change was a National gain, although to some of us an individual loss” (Roosevelt, An Autobiography). Both passages from Chapter 4, "In Cowboy Land," of Roosevelt's 1913 autobiography, http://www.bartleby.com/55/4.html. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rand McNally and Company Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived From Second Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the Territory of Dakota (Grand Forks, Dakota 1886) (HE2709.D2) (From Library of Congress) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Rand McNally and Company, Chicago Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1886 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 70 x 57 cm. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Historical map Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4171p.rr002750 Library of Congress Control Number: 98688534 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Dakota Territory (regional) black and white counties Indian reservation Northern Pacific Railroad railway network railways Rand McNally & Co. township township grids westward expansion https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/1393ca0bd8c2f254b35ca58bc9b494ff.jpg 28b3248f36bd38af0f4a74dea3fc27d8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tourism, Proximity and British Perceptions of France and Germany Before the First World War Description An account of the resource This collection explores British perceptions of France and Germany before the First World War, and how they were influenced by proximity, both in terms of simple distance and in terms of how easy it was to travel there. There are four elements (one of which isn't a historical map). <br />The first is a graphical representation of the quickest routes from London to different places in Europe, as advised by Thomas Cook and Son travel agents in 1913, and how long it would take to travel to each destination. These graphs give us a sense of how far places in Europe actually were from London in 1913 (admittedly a limited sense given I haven’t found useful information on the prices of these journeys, or how many times a day they ran). They also show which places routes ran through, thus showing which places travelllers would be familiar with simply by having to frequently pass through.<br />The second map is a cartoon map of Europe made in 1900. It supposedly shows the different countries responding to Britain’s war in South Africa. It is interesting for how France—at the time far from an ally—is shown as far less threatening than Germany, which in turn is less threatening than Russia. It is interesting to apply information from the previous element to this one (if we assume that travel patterns in Europe had not radically changed between 1900 and 1913). The relative proximity of France, and number of routes through Paris, perhaps meant that more people had been there, and did not find it excessively foreign or sinister, while the distantness of Russia (Moscow is 102 hours from London) arguably result in it being depicted as a terrifying, autocratic octopus (a depiction surely grounded in common British stereotypes and attitudes). <br />The third element seeks to answer a question posed by the comparison of the first and second. The first element shows that Germany was not very distant, and that many routes passed through it, especially through Cologne. Yet the second shows that Germany seemed to be more foreign and threatening than France. The third element is a map of Europe made in 1880. It labels western Germany—the Rhineland that accounts for so many nodes in the first element—“Germany,” and the rest of the German Empire “Prussia.” While it was probably the result of parsimonious atlas makers reusing pre-unification plates, the existence of such a map (and of other examples, which are hyperlinked), suggests that the British maintained a mental distinction between the Germany they encountered and the threatening, militaristic Prussia they did not. Either that map echoes a distinction that was already salient, or it and others helped to create or maintain such a distinction. It is no accident that Germany is represented in element two by the Kaiser eagerly stockpiling battleships, echoing a pre-unification cartoon map of <a href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/16826">Prussia</a>, in which that state is embodied by the Kaiser and an armed and dangerous Bismark.<br />The last element is a fragment of a map of Paris from an English language guidebook published in 1878. It gives us a loose sense of what sort of places would have grounded British perceptions of the French capital. Specifically, government buildings feature prominently, suggesting that visiting Paris in some way entailed visiting the French state, and perhaps coming to understand it as similar to the British state. One might wonder whether visitors to Berlin would have had the same response to the German state, had many people visited Berlin. Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer W. Williams Engraver W. Williams Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital atlas sheet Format notes hand coloured, 28 x 35cm Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection URL or Unique Identifier <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~30529~1140056:Europe-?">http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~30529~1140056:Europe-?</a> Date Published "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 by S. Augustus Mitchell in the Office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington," officially published in an atlas in 1880 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map of Europe, Showing its Gt. Political Divisions Description An account of the resource This atlas map of Europe is included as it is an excellent example of a persistent problem that cartographers of Europe faced after German unification: how to label the quasi-federal German Empire. Interestingly, the label for Prussia -- the dominant German state -- is bigger than that of Germany. While the label for Germany runs vertically through the Rhineland -- a major British tourist destination -- the Prussian label runs horizontally. One might wonder whether British tourists to Germany connected the country they visited with the rising German state, or whether they sustained a similar dichotomy between Germany and Prussia. <br />A possible explanation for why this map labels Germany so is that it uses plates made before German unification -- a version of the map made in <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~30423~1140462:Europe-?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort&amp;qvq=q:List_No%3D%272483.046%27%22%2B;sort:Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=0&amp;trs=1">1870</a>&nbsp;has the same label, with the horizontal "Prussia" indicating Prussian territory and the vertical "Germany" indicating the smaller German states. <br />Pre-unification maps did distinguish between (militaristic)&nbsp;<a href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/16826">Prussia</a> and the rest of <a href="http://maps.bpl.org/id/16827">Germany</a>, and through inertia that distinction persisted long into unification, for example in <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~237967~5511315:Chart-of-the-World-Shows-the-Forms-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No&amp;qvq=w4s:/when%2F1906;q:%3DEurope%2BAND%2Bpublisher_location%3DLondon%2B;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=0&amp;trs=3">these</a> <a href="http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~31364~1150311?qvq=w4s%3A%2Fwho%2FLetts%25252C%2BSon%2B%252526%2BCo.%3Bq%3Aletts%2C%2Bson%2Band%2Bco%3Bsort%3Apub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_date%3Blc%3ARUMSEY~8~1&amp;mi=8&amp;trs=158">maps</a>. It is of itself interesting that the term "Germany" was used, and given the same stylistic treatment as the name of a country, before the creation of a single German state, suggesting that British and American people thought of the German states -- excluding Prussia -- as a country, even before unification. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Samuel Augustus Mitchell and W. Williams Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available S.A. Mitchell, Philadelphia Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880 Type The nature or genre of the resource Atlas Map Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Continental 1880 1880s atlas Germany labelling names naming nationalism visual hierarchy https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/364ba3ac0a9aa587c4884c0ee6adfc2b.jpg f4b83c8d84806f61fe55bdc655eee229 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hamburgum celeberrima libera imperii et Hanseatica civitas ac opulentissimum emporium circa ostium Albis ad mare septentr = Hamburg eine weltberühmte Freye Reichs und Hansee- auch Reiche u. Volkreiche Handels statt an der Elb nicht Weit von der Nord See Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seutter, Matthaeus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1725 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/2479441966b8d95cb1aa0c2d6e074524.jpg b78302788469ff4cd43a3af7014bee4f Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The blueprint of St. Michaelis Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sonnin, Ernst Georg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1751 Zotero URL http://diathek.kunstgesch.uni-halle.de/dbview/fullview.php?id=21178 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/d502ba0f828ba861f13548a7c8671373.jpg 4967ef9f5faf8d6004e8f066f78033c6 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elkhorn Ranch Subject The topic of the resource Westward Expansion; Ranching in the Dakota Territories in the 1880s; Theodore Roosevelt; Little Missouri River Description An account of the resource My curated map collection helps analyze how a particular space, the basin of the Little Missouri River in present day North Dakota, took on special personal meaning to Theodore Roosevelt in the 1880s. My project investigates how the land and people in the Little Missouri created a unique cultural and historical phenomenon that endured not just in Roosevelt’s conscience but also in the national imagination. My project will answer such questions as: what were the cultural and economic forces that led to a ranching boom in the Little Missouri Basin in the 1880s? How did the space change Roosevelt? How did he and others change the space? What cultural, ideological, and personal meaning did Roosevelt attach to the space, and how, and why? How did what happened there reflect or influence understandings of national identity in the latter half of the 19th century? I include these maps as texts and tools to provide context and analysis in answering these and other questions. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Josiah Corbus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2016 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Timetable Map Format notes 16 p. on 1 sheet. Color. Includes timetables and text on lands for sale. URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~24454~910098:Text-Page--St--Paul,-Minneapolis-&-?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort%2CPub_Date%2CPub_List_No%2CSeries_No# List No.: 5244B Date Published 1887 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Text Page: St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry. Subject The topic of the resource Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Description An account of the resource Full Title: “(Text Page to) St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry. Red River Valley Line through the park region ... 2 +87. Matthews, Northrup & Co., Art-Printing Works, Buffalo, N.Y.” My description: This text page advertisement from the Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway provides timetables and text convincing readers to go West. The railroad company tells readers (in the lower central part of the document) that the company’s lands in North Dakota possess “Several Million Acres of the Finest Soil in Dakota” that are “all for actual settlers…no reservation.” The advertisement asks readers, “Why not accept” a farm of your own “in this great country?” Though this rail-line was not the specific rail-line that took Theodore Roosevelt to the Little Missouri Basin, it gives a clear sense of the excitement surrounding the expansion into the western parts of the Dakota territories. In particular, it captures a “get rich quick!” mentality that caused ranchers and settlers to flood into the Dakotas. Please note: this text may not, in any traditional sense, be a map. However, the David Rumsey Collection classifies it as a "Timetable Map." Regardless of how we qualify the text, I have included it because it is a valuable resource in forming an understanding of migration and settlement of the Dakota Territory in the 1880s. Additionally, it acts as a useful supplement to the two maps in this collection that were commissioned by railway companies and made by Rand McNally, the first from 1873 and the second from 1886. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Matthews, Northrup & Co., Buffalo, N.Y. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1887 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 16 p. on 1 sheet. Color. Includes timetables and text on lands for sale. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Page Timetable Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Since the resource does not depict a geographic space, it is difficult to assign a geographic scope. The text concerns Minnesota and the Dakota Territory. advertisement Dakota Territories Minnesota railways text timetable westward expansion https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/f927d21e184932c429a300e64e19aece.jpg 752724818644458a415a72dd76042ea5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More Known Unknowns: Mapping Environmental Damage from the Chernobyl Disaster Map layer Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Narodopisna Karta Ukrainy Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Freytag & Berndt Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918 Language A language of the resource Ukrainian Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Stepan Rudnytsky Description An account of the resource This map, produced after the first World War, makes a powerful argument in contemporary debates over Ukrainian statehood. Rudnytsky was a geographer and professor with deep roots in the Ukrainian national movement. He received much of his education in Vienna, where the base map from which he created this map was produced. The fact that the most easily available maps of this territory even decades later were produced by this company (and by Soviet cartographers outside Moscow) highlights a strange feature of Ukraine's existence as a state and as a territory--the fact of it being constantly described from a distance. https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/5957307ff9d27a78609bf19a012a68d8.jpg 3fce0d11299caace598d5fa0c4c547f7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map Tracings Description An account of the resource [] Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer Svit, I.V. Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part Harvard Map Collection, Krawciw Collection. Call Number G7270 1930 .M3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mapa Zelenoi Ukrainy = Map of Green Ukraine Description An account of the resource A black-and-white map of a region of eastern Siberia with a large Ukrainian population. The map contains ethnographic information, topography, and transportation routes. Partially pictured: Manchuria, Japan. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Svit I.V. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ukraïnsʹka vydavnycha spilka (Ukrainian publishing association), Harbin. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1930 Language A language of the resource Ukrainian https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/1165fcfa2abb32315cc83385d32e50fd.jpg 17054aa0a8758d816f0025bcc1b99a2f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elkhorn Ranch Subject The topic of the resource Westward Expansion; Ranching in the Dakota Territories in the 1880s; Theodore Roosevelt; Little Missouri River Description An account of the resource My curated map collection helps analyze how a particular space, the basin of the Little Missouri River in present day North Dakota, took on special personal meaning to Theodore Roosevelt in the 1880s. My project investigates how the land and people in the Little Missouri created a unique cultural and historical phenomenon that endured not just in Roosevelt’s conscience but also in the national imagination. My project will answer such questions as: what were the cultural and economic forces that led to a ranching boom in the Little Missouri Basin in the 1880s? How did the space change Roosevelt? How did he and others change the space? What cultural, ideological, and personal meaning did Roosevelt attach to the space, and how, and why? How did what happened there reflect or influence understandings of national identity in the latter half of the 19th century? I include these maps as texts and tools to provide context and analysis in answering these and other questions. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Josiah Corbus Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource November 2016 Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Individual Map Format notes 5.625 x 17 ins. Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Call Number Accession Number: 474 / 6490f URL or Unique Identifier http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record.aspx?libID=o275261 Date Published Unknown Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Map illustrating the location of Theodore Roosevelt’s ranches Subject The topic of the resource Theodore Roosevelt's Ranches Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Unknown Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Map Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Accession Number: 474 / 6490f Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Theodore Roosevelt National Park Description An account of the resource This undated map, courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, shows ranches along the Little Missouri River during the 1880s. The map contains the following description on the bottom: "Map of part of the Little Missouri River Valley, in Billings County, North Dakota, showing the location of Theodore Roosevelt's Ranches." Roosevelt's two ranches, Chimney Butte to the South of Medora and Elkhorn to the North, are labeled in red text, while ranches not belonging to Roosevelt are labeled in black. The map surrenders some of its value as a result of its unknown date and authorship, but given that the source is provided by the National Park, it maintains its legitimacy as a source. The map combines hand-drawn natural features with a focus on the streams that feed into the Little Missouri, with a superimposed grid that traces surveying designations. Each grid square represents a square mile; groups of 36 squares, or parcels 6 miles by 6 miles, form the township subdivisions that the U.S. Department of the Interior used to survey the land. This information is missing from the map--in fact, there is a rather dismaying lack of a legend--but the system of township surveying matches sources from the same time period, and therefore the assumption of scale seems safe (please see Rand McNally's 1873 map of Dakota or the U.S. Department of the Interior's 1882 map for corroboration). By using this grid to judge scale, we can get a sense of how much open, uninhabited space there was in the area during Roosevelt's time there. Only four ranches other than Roosevelt's are depicted on the map, spread over a North to South distance of 36 miles. This relatively sparse distribution of ranches along the Little Missouri reflects Roosevelt's description of habitation in the area during his time there. Throughout his writings from the period, he revels in the abundance of open space. In Hunting Trips of a Ranchman, his 1885 book on his time in Dakota, he describes the distribution of ranches: "The land is still in great part unsurveyed, and is hardly anywhere fenced in, the cattle roaming over it at will. The small ranches are often quite close to one another, say within a couple of miles; but the home ranch of a big outfit will not have another building within ten or twenty miles of it, or, indeed, if the country is dry, not within fifty” (Roosevelt, 5). The map is striking in how vertical it is; it shows the specific watershed of the Little Missouri and little else. But it does not show the entire Little Missouri Basin. The very selective area depicted, along with the red text used for Roosevelt's ranches, suggests that the map was made expressly to indicate Roosevelt's own holdings. This suggests that the map was produced as a retrospective document meant to tell the story of Roosevelt's time there, rather than as an actual artifact from the 1880s. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Scope: local geography. Selective portion of a small river basin. Chimney Butte Ranch color Dakota Territory Elkhorn Ranch hand illustrated natural features Little Missouri River Medora railways rivers Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt National Park township grids tributaries watershed westward expansion https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/9927bfa3941f0e6b08ad26464e46e3fd.jpg bcb3b6d3699cf7b982f10de7126e6ad4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Surveys Around the World Description An account of the resource A collection of several surveys conducted across the world in the 19th and 20th century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Christina Shivers Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Cartographer United States Federal Bureau of Land Management Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource State of Utah Land Ownership and Public Management Subject The topic of the resource Utah Description An account of the resource The base grid was compiled by the Bureau of Land Management from official records of cadastral surveys. The land status was compiled for printing by the Bureau of Land Management from the offical federal records with additional data furnished by the Utah State Land Board, and U.S. Forest Service maps. Geographical coverage complete in 23 sheets. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource U.S. Bureau of Land Management Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1980 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/hist1952/original/0bc22e081bc55338998d6486c0c35be0.jpg 0c776ada31d8e5b3ae20648fd89fc023 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charting the Ephemeral: The Evolution of Climate Knowledge Description An account of the resource A collection of maps and charts illustrating techniques and methods for manually depicting weather data. The project explores the ways in which early meteorologists sought to understand their environments, how the technological advancements such as the invention of the barometer, telegraph, and RADAR impacted knowledge of world climate. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jose Rivera Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant US/World Historical Map Fill out as many of these fields as possible. Required Dublin core fields include Title, Description, Publisher Lithographer U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau Type individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital Atlas Map Format notes 45x58cm Collection Name of collection of which the map is a part David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Call Number 9734.002 URL or Unique Identifier http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/workspace/handleMediaPlayer?lunaMediaId=RUMSEY~8~1~280218~90053406 Date Published 1901 Date Depicted 1901 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource (United States) Weather Map. January 1, 1901 Description An account of the resource This weather map is published by the US Department of Agriculture. Observations were taken from 8am to 8pm where barometers reduced to Sea Level and 32degrees Fahrenheit. The heavy dotted lines inclose ares of marked changes in temperature during the past 24 hours. Shaded areas show regions of precipitation during the pat 12 hours. Arrows point in the direction the wind is blowing. The use of symbols is interesting here, as they indicate weather being clear, partly cloudy, cloudy, with rain, snow, etc. The amount of text that accompanies the map reflects the weather conditions and general forecast. It is interesting that these maps had to be published daily based on a network of national sites communicating climate data back and forth. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource U.S. Department of Agriculture Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available U.S. Department of Agriculture Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1901 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource 45x58cm, scale not given Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Atlas Map Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant United States climate data color meteorology precipitation symbols temperature text description United States Washington D.C. weather map wind pressure