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Title
A name given to the resource
Economic Development of the Tennessee River Region
Description
An account of the resource
This collections seeks to understand how different entities depict the Tennessee River Valley region through mapping. The three maps included are made by three government organizations with profoundly different purposes. The analysis focuses on how natural features, rivers, lakes, and mountains, are represented. These different styles of representation indicate the different points of view of each different agency when it comes to developing the same landscape. Thus, these maps visually represent both the landscape and the economic potential of the region.
Historical Map
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Title
A name given to the resource
Knoxville
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
U.S.G.S. (U.S. Geological Survey)
Publisher
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U.S.G.S.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1955
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Topographic Map, Scale 1:250,000
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Local, Multi-State
Description
An account of the resource
This large-scale topographic map covers the region between Knoxville, TN and Asheville, NC. As an official U.S.G.S., the map makes claims to objectively representing the landscape through topography. The consistency of representation across such a large region makes the map more difficult to read than a small-scale or pictorial map.
Great Smoky Mountain National Park is not depicted in a different color, but is labelled by text. All the cities are made the same fluorescent orange color. Roads are the same color red on both the white and green background.
Despite the consistency of representation across the entire landscape, the choices of the U.S.G.S. mapmakers still indicate a hierarchy of landscape. The "Great Smoky Mountain National Park" text is at least as large as the "Knoxville" toponym and spaced out to cover the large area which highlights the spatial importance of the mountain region. The orange color represents "populated places" according to the key, which would then imply that people only live in this landscape in named cities; the rest is untouched natural wilderness. The red roads contrast more with the white background as opposed to the green, which emphasizes the presence of road in non-forested places and tends to hide them in the green area.
The faith to the scale of the natural features places lakes over rivers in the visual hierarchy. Lakes are blue polygons, rivers are small blue lines winding among the brown contour lines. Nonetheless, the water features of significance, lakes, rivers and ponds, are all represented on the map.
Contributor
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Army Map Service (AMTV), Corps of Engineers
contour lines
lakes
large scale
legend
national park
North Carolina
populated places
regional
reliability diagram
rivers
road system
state lines
Tennessee
topographic map
U.S.G.S
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Title
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Elkhorn Ranch
Subject
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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
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Josiah Corbus
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
November 2016
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Handwritten, single sheet
Format notes
9.5 x 13.25 in.
Collection
Name of collection of which the map is a part
Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service and Dickinson State University
Call Number
Accession Number: 474 / 6492b
URL or Unique Identifier
http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Research/Digital-Library/Record.aspx?libID=o275512
Date Published
1900-1960?
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Title
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Ranches in North Dakota (Roosevelt) Badlands Area in '80's
Subject
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Medora; Ranches; Theodore Roosevelt
Creator
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Unknown
Source
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Publisher
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service and Dickinson State University
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1900-1960?
Format
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Handwritten, single sheet, 9.5 x 13.25 in.
Language
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English
Type
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Historical Map
Identifier
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Accession Number: 474 / 6492b
Description
An account of the resource
This map provides a loose sketch of the Little Missouri River Basin, with a focus on the tributary streams that flow into the Little Missouri, and the ranches in the area. Ambiguity about the map's authorship, date of creation, and scale--not to mention its unspecific, almost abstract, depiction of space--calls into question this map's reliability as a source of verifiable information. For instance, the way that each stream or creek is drawn almost identically, with two forks each, makes viewers wonder how accurate this map really is. Indeed, satellite imagery of the same area of the Little Missouri confirms that the map's depiction of streams is not faithful to the actual topography of the land. This inaccuracy does not mean, however, that the source surrenders all of its value. After all, the map's purported purpose is to show ranches, not natural features. In light of this stated goal, the streams may have been represented more for their position relative to ranches and each other than for topographic accuracy.
Even so, the value of the depiction of ranches is reduced by the lack of a date on the map. Though the map purports to show ranches in the '80s, assumed to mean the 1880s, the period in which Roosevelt came to the Little Missouri, there is reason to question how accurately this map represents 1880s ranches. For one, another map in this collection, also courtesy of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, shows far fewer ranches in the same area than this map shows. Furthermore, the inaccuracy of the rivers makes one wonder if the ranches are placed on the page with a similar disregard.
In spite of these shortcomings, the map provides some value in that it shows how ranches in the area were clustered along the Little Missouri. Also, by centering the map on Medora, the map-maker highlights the importance of that town as a transportation hub at the geographic center of the Little Missouri Basin ranching boom in the 1880s. Medora, of course, was the town that connected the region to the Northern Pacific, which transported cattle and people to and from all points East.
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.
colorless
Dakota Territory
hand illustrated natural features
Little Missouri River
Medora
no grids
ranches
rivers
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
tributaries
watershed
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Title
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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
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Josiah Corbus
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
November 2016
Historical Map
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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
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Title
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Map illustrating the location of Theodore Roosevelt’s ranches
Subject
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Theodore Roosevelt's Ranches
Source
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Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Publisher
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park - National Park Service
Date
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Unknown
Language
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English
Type
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Map
Identifier
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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
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Title
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Economic Development of the Tennessee River Region
Description
An account of the resource
This collections seeks to understand how different entities depict the Tennessee River Valley region through mapping. The three maps included are made by three government organizations with profoundly different purposes. The analysis focuses on how natural features, rivers, lakes, and mountains, are represented. These different styles of representation indicate the different points of view of each different agency when it comes to developing the same landscape. Thus, these maps visually represent both the landscape and the economic potential of the region.
Historical Map
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Title
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Tennessee Valley Area: pictorial map
Source
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Library of Congress
Publisher
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U.S. Government Printing Office
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1939
Contributor
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Description
An account of the resource
This pictorial map, produced by the Tennessee Valley Authority, shows the Tennessee River Valley region with particular emphasis on the proposed work and improvements of the TVA. As the map notes, there is "no scale," nor does it include a compass rose. The map has three major parts: the diagram of the proposed dams along the top of the image, the pictorial map of Tennessee, and an inset of Great Smoky Mountain National Park in the bottom right-hand corner. Taken together, all three parts contribute to a particular understanding of the regional geography.
The top diagram shows the location of proposed dams along the Tennessee River with respect to the distance from the mouth and the elevation. This is the product of the Tennessee Valley Authority's work in the region; it's mandate was to provide flood control and generate agricultural and industrial development in the region.
The colors of the map serve to emphasize the area under the TVA's domain, highlighting it in a light green while the rest of the land area is a muted cornflower blue. Mountains, hills, state lines, and cities are depicted in brown; roads are white and toponyms are in black. The rivers and title of the map are dark blue.
The Great Smoky Mountain inset acknowledges the growing importance of recreation and scenic tourism to the region. The National Park was newly established, and the roads linking Knoxville and Asheville, the two cities on either side of the Appalachians in this area highlight the connectivity, which should enable economic growth, of the mountainous landscape.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Regional; Multi-State
dams
federal government
highways
national park
natural features
pictorial map
presidential birth places
regional
rivers
Tennessee
transmission lines
TVA
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Title
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Mapping disease
Description
An account of the resource
My final project investigates the different ways of mapping disease throughout history and how this can be seen as a product of attitudes towards disease and understanding of the underlying mechanisms at a particular time. While now producing maps of disease is a basic tool in epidemiology and public health, this way of visualizing disease patterns did not develop until around the turn of the 19th century. Prompted in part by serious epidemics of cholera and yellow fever, maps became an important tool in the mission to understand the mode of transmission of disease. In particular, maps were key in the debate over and development of germ theory. Later, maps were also used to disseminate awareness to the general public, and no longer remained the preserve of scientists and public health officials in academic contexts. For this initial map collection I aimed to display three maps that show significantly different ways of thinking about infectious disease. In particular, they show three key stages in the understanding of disease: initial mapping to attempt to discern a mode of transmission, knowledge of a vector and its range, and an attempt to communicate the urgency and danger of disease to the public.
Creator
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Isabella C
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Book figure
URL or Unique Identifier
https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:7142160$7i
Digital Repository
Open Collections Program at Harvard University
Date Depicted
1817-1831
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History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia
Creator
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Francis Bisset Hawkins
Publisher
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J. Murray (London)
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1831
Description
An account of the resource
This map shows how the cholera epidemic spread across the world from 1817-1831. The only cities labeled on the map are places at which cholera was recorded during the epidemic, clearly showing the impressive geographical range the epidemic reached. This map is particularly interesting because it aims to depict change over time, by including the date at which cholera was first recorded at that specific place on most of the labels. It is not initially very easy to determine where the epidemic originated and the path it took because there is no guide other than the dates, so you have to read all the labels to get a sense of the narrative that the map is telling – it is not very visually obvious. Assessing the path of transmission of a disease is key in identifying the mechanism by which it is spread, and this map is an excellent example of an attempt to better understand cholera, laying the pathway for the discovery of waterborne transmission in the next 20-30 years.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World
Source
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Book: "History of the epidemic spasmodic cholera of Russia :including a copious account of the disease which has prevailed in India, and which has travelled, under that name,
from Asia into Europe, illustrated by numerous official and other documents, explanatory of the nature, treatment, and prevention of the malady"
cholera
dates
disease
IC
Place Names
rivers
transmission
world map
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Wallace's Line
Description
An account of the resource
This collection displays snapshots of the career of Alfred Russel Wallace. Best known for his simultaneous discovery of evolution with Charles Darwin, Wallace is also notable for pioneering the discipline of biogeography. The maps in this collection show the arc of his career in exploration and theory related to the distributions of animal species. Wallace was trained as a railway surveyor before beginning his career in natural history, and mapping was a crucial part of his scientific thinking. The prelude to his essay describing the mechanism of natural selection was one describing how similar species arise coincident in space and time. His work on evolution was central to his career, but so too was his work delineating how different groups of species occupied different parts of the world. This collection features maps produced for Wallace's publications which visualize his process of creating geographical divisions based on animal life.
Historical Map
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Type
individual map, atlas sheet, book figure, part of bound collection, born-digital
Book figure
Format notes
It is unclear who actually made this map. It is included in a book by Wallace, but it does not note whether he was the cartographer or whether someone else made the map and plotted his routes on it.
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Title
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Southern Part of the Malay Archipelago shewing Mr. Wallace's Routes
Source
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
MacMillan and Co.
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1869
Description
An account of the resource
This map, published in Wallace's book describing his travels in the Malay Archipelago, shows the routes he took around the region while he was visiting the islands and collecting specimens there between 1854 and 1862. His occupation during these years was collecting natural history specimens for sale, but he also made detailed observations of the plants, animals, land, and people there, which made him a foremost expert on the region at the time. Wallace’s work on both evolution and biogeography was based on his detailed observation of species during his travels on the routes shown on this map. While at Sarawak in 1855, he wrote a paper “On the Law which has Regulated the Introduction of New Species,” which proposed the following law: “Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre–existing closely allied species.” This proto-evolutionary statement was his explanation for why similar species were endemic to adjacent areas, and was a direct response to diverse groups of species that he found concentrated in the Malay Archipelago. He wrote the paper which earned him the title of co-discoverer of evolution by natural selection on the island of “Jilolo” in 1858. Titled “On the Tendency of Varieties to depart indefinitely from the Original Type,” this paper describes the struggle for existence between varieties within a species leading to divergent evolution as better-adapted varieties survive more to reproduce. Wallace famously wrote this paper while suffering from a tropical fever, and his discussion of varieties of species and the pressures to which they are subject was surely grounded in his observation of the lifeforms around him there. This map gives a sense of how extensive Wallace’s travels in the Malay Archipelago were and the number of distinct biotas from different islands he was able to observe as he developed his theories.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
The Malay Archipelago between the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula and the western tip of New Guinea
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Alfred Russel Wallace
island names
island outlines
Malay archipelago
mountains
Place Names
rivers
shading and labels indicating sea depth
travel routes and direction
volcanoes
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Title
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Chinese Qing Empire's Mapping of the Northwestern Border
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is a series of Chinese Qing Empire (1644-1911)’s maps on its north-western borderline from the 18th century to 19th century. These maps show how the Qing Empire manipulated power on the newly conquered territory and how the Empire gradually failed its competition on territory with the Russian Empire (1721–1917). The time span of this collection covers the period of transformation in late imperial China: Western ideas and techniques were introduced, and the Chinese court and literati gradually tried to assimilate them into traditional framework of knowledge. The case of maps and cartography was no exception. In my final project, I plan to explore how the court and literati used and perceived maps.
Historical Map
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URL or Unique Identifier
https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71002481
http://digitalatlas.ascdc.sinica.edu.tw/map_detail.jsp?id=A103000048
Date Published
1832
Date Depicted
1756-1759
Engraver
Li Zhaoluo
Cartographer
Dong Youcheng
Lithographer
Unknown
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Title
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Qing Empire's Complete Map of All Under Heaven
Creator
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Dong Youcheng
Li Zhaoluo
Publisher
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Li Zhaoluo
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1832
Language
A language of the resource
Chinese
Description
An account of the resource
The Qing Empire under Emperor Qianlong (r. 1735-1795) was an age of expansion. After conquering the New Domination at the west, the Emperor sent missionaries there to do surveys. In 1761, basing on new surveys and the previous national map made under Emperor Kangxi regime (r. 1661-1722), missionaries finished a new map on the whole Qing Empire with longitude and latitude. This map is later called Imperial atlas of the Imperial Secretariat from the Qianlong Reign. Since this map is usually kept in the Imperial Secretariat, few people could see it.
However, Dong Youcheng managed to copy the Qianlong map, and Li Zhaoluo later compiled and published this copy in 1832. This newly published map is named “Qing Empire's Complete Map of All Under Heaven.” This map combines the Western geographic coordinate system and the grid system used in traditional Chinese cartography.
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The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
Territories of the Chineses Qing Empire (around the later 18th century)
Hydronym
lakes
mountains
Place Names
rivers
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Title
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Chinese Qing Empire's Mapping of the Northwestern Border
Description
An account of the resource
This collection is a series of Chinese Qing Empire (1644-1911)’s maps on its north-western borderline from the 18th century to 19th century. These maps show how the Qing Empire manipulated power on the newly conquered territory and how the Empire gradually failed its competition on territory with the Russian Empire (1721–1917). The time span of this collection covers the period of transformation in late imperial China: Western ideas and techniques were introduced, and the Chinese court and literati gradually tried to assimilate them into traditional framework of knowledge. The case of maps and cartography was no exception. In my final project, I plan to explore how the court and literati used and perceived maps.
Historical Map
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URL or Unique Identifier
https://lccn.loc.gov/gm71005082
http://digitalatlas.asdc.sinica.edu.tw/map_detail.jsp?id=A103000028
Date Published
1890
Date Depicted
1884
Cartographer
Unknown
Engraver
Unknown
Lithographer
Unknown
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Title
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Map of the Borderlines of China and Russia
Description
An account of the resource
This map, named The Map of the Borderlines of China and Russia, is a selected translation from one 1884 Russian map. Hong Jun (1839-1893), who had been the Qing Empire’s emissary, bought the original map in Russia and translated place names into Chinese. His purpose of translation was to make use of Russian’s accurate survey on the borders, roads, and landscapes. The maps of the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire calculate the longitude in a different way. (For Russia, the zero degrees longitude line passes Moscow; for China, it passes Beijing.) Therefore, Hong Jun offers the method to make conversions in the map’s notes.
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hong Jun
Date
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1890
Language
A language of the resource
Chinese
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
The vast areas adjacent to the borderline of China and Russia
borderlines
borders - district
borders - national
Hydronym
lakes
mountains
Place Names
rivers
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Historical Map
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Cartographer
Juan Vespucci
Date Published
1524
Call Number
51-2573
URL or Unique Identifier
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:595281?buttons=y
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Title
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Vespucci World Map
Description
An account of the resource
Polar projection of the world
Creator
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Juan Vespucci
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1524
16th century
Bodies of Water
calculation lines
castle
coastlines
engraving
equator
globe
hand pointing
IC
italy
latin
Latitude
longitute
missing coastlines
mountains
no political boundary lines
polar projection
rivers
shading
tropics
vespucci
world map
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Title
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Map Tracings
Description
An account of the resource
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Map layer
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Map layer 1 - Bodies of Water
Description
An account of the resource
Containing water elements such as rivers, lakes and coastlines, this layer is important because it represents en element of transporting of goods, travel, and resources. As a Dutch copy, this map could have provided information on access points for settlement.
lakes
resourses
rivers
transportation network
water bodies