Call number ranges
If you want to physically browse the shelves, here are some of the call number ranges for United States Cartography. Most of these books are located on Berry Level 4. The maps are in the Evans Map Room.
| Call number range | What's there |
| G 1200 - 1204 | Atlases of the United States |
| G 1220 - 1224 | Atlases of New Hampshire |
| G 3700 - G 3702 | Maps of the United States |
| G 3740 - G 3744 | Maps of New Hampshire |
| GA 197.5 - 198 | Cartographers |
| GA 281 | Globemakers in the U.S. |
| GA 405 - 405 | History of cartography of the U.S. |
| GA 438 | History of cartography of New Hampshire |
| GA 471 - 1776 | Other regions/countries |
Keeping up with Cartography/GIS journal literature
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Introduction
This page highlights resources for Cartography of the United States of America.
Cartography is the production and study of maps and charts. It is a system of information which is used to communicate something of the real world to other people; the map is a model, to be decoded by the map reader; see Lloyd (1989) AAAG 79, 1.
Mayhew, S. (2015). Cartography. In A Dictionary of Geography. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 7 Nov. 2016.
In the Library's collections
Below are useful subject headings for searching the online catalog for items on the cartography of the United States. Don't forget to look at the list of related subject headings too.
Introductory reading(s)
The history of cartography by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 201 .H53 1987A multi-volume set covering the history of Cartography by region and time.
History of cartography: cartography in the traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific societies by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780226907284Publication Date: Vol. 2, Book 3Although they are often rendered in forms unfamiliar to Western eyes, maps have existed in most cultures. In this latest book of the acclaimed History of Cartography, contributors from a broad variety of disciplines collaborate to describe and address the significance of traditional cartographies. ...
Weaving a national map: review of the U.S. Geological Survey concept of the national map by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780309087476Weaving a National Map draws on contributions to a September 2002 workshop and the U.S. Geological Survey's "vision" document for The National Map, envisioned by the USGS as a database providing "public domain core geographic data about the United States and its territories that other agencies can extend, enhance, and reference as they concentrate on maintaining other data that are unique to their needs."
Selected book titles
- Kleiner Atlas amerikanischer Überempfindlichkeiten byCall Number: Baker-Berry GA 405.5 .R4 2008ISBN: 9783854153795
Mapping the nation: history and cartography in nineteenth-century America by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 405.5 .S38 2012ISBN: 9780226740683In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South.
The mismapping of America by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 405 .S32 2003ISBN: 9781580461290Maps have always been powerful instruments for the dissemination of information. Symbolizing the world, identifying landmasses and waterways, and defining our borders, maps help to create the context in which we live and the history that we study. At times, in projecting information, maps initiate or perpetuate errors. At times, explorers and cartographers have depicted fancies rather than facts, and wishes rather than wisdom. Maps have misinformed! The Mismapping of America presents and analyzes the significant cartographic errors that have shaped the history of the United States. Perhaps the most blatant error is the very name "America," that honors Amerigo Vespucci, who not only never set foot on North American soil, but also played no significant role in the discovery of South America. ...
Representing the Republic: mapping the United States, 1600-1900 by Call Number: Baker-Berry GA 405 .S56 2001ISBN: 9781861890863Representing the Republic provides an intriguing account of the mapping of America from its colonial origins to 1900. The most significant maps and mapmakers are discussed in a survey that begins with the first European mappings of New Netherlands in the early seventeenth century and concludes with the Rand McNally atlases of the 1890s. ...
Revolution: mapping the road to American independence 1755-1783 by Call Number: Baker-Berry Oversize G 1201 .S26 B76 2015ISBN: 9780393060324Historians of the Revolutionary War in America have been fortunate in their resources: few wars in history have such a rich literary and cartographic heritage. The high skills of the surveyors, artists, and engravers who delineated the topography and fields of battle allow us to observe the unfolding of events that ultimately defined the United States.
Soundings: the story of the remarkable woman who mapped the ocean floor by Call Number: Baker-Berry Popular Science GA 407 .T43 F45 2012ISBN: 9780805092158Her maps of the ocean floor have been called "one of the most remarkable achievements in modern cartography", yet no one knows her name.
Stonewall's Prussian mapmaker: the journals of Captain Oscar Hinrichs by Call Number: Baker-Berry E 605 .H63 2014ISBN: 9781469614342Prussian-born cartographer Oscar Hinrichs was a key member of Stonewall Jackson's staff, collaborated on maps with Jedediah Hotchkiss, and worked alongside such prominent Confederate leaders as Joe Johnston, Richard H. Anderson, and Jubal Early.
