Meeting of Frontiers

[Dave Monroe]

Meeting of Frontiers
http://frontiers.loc.gov:8081/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/uafmp.html

The Library of Congress has a section on its website called the
University of Alaska Fairbanks: Maps, which happens to be a digitized
collection of maps of Alaska and the polar regions from the Rare Map
Collection at the Rasmuson Library. The website is in both Russian and
English. The maps range in age from 16th century speculative map
making to the era of the gold rush, and provide a good look at what
mapmakers' and explorers' (mis)perceptions were about the region. In
the middle of the page is the link, "Browse Collections" which goes to
the list of the maps in the digital collection. Although some of the
map titles are in French, especially in the first part of the list,
once the visitor clicks on the title and is taken to the details about
the map and the actual map itself, the translated title is given.
Additionally, the author/geographer of the map is indicated under the
title, and if this name is highlighted and underlined, it can be
clicked on to see all the other maps in the digitized collection by
that same author/geographer. Clicking on the image of the map will
allow the visitor to choose the size of the map they want to see. The
images are high-quality, and can be navigated in more detail as well.