An 1849 map of Texas produced by land agent Jacob Raphael De Cordova remains the top-selling map sold by the Texas General Land Office to support conservation of fragile, aging maps and other ...

The map showing the Elder's course was prepared using maps published by the United States Coast Survey and the U. S. Geological Survey. Geographer Henry Gannett traced the route onto an existing ...

The history of maps can go back 5,000 years. During the early years of maps, there were no rules relating to how they were oriented. Maps now normally go north to south. Before 4 BC, maps were usually ...

Each year around the holidays, the oldest state agency in Texas ramps up sales of high-resolution scanned reproductions of historic maps to help fund conservation of fragile maps and other documents, ...

In the Chicago Urban Heritage Project, College students are turning century-old insurance atlases into interactive digital ...