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Library of Congress Map Collections from 1500's

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the simply-cool dept.

e03179 writes "A friend of mine stumbled across this site from the US Library of Congress. The website allows users to view maps that go all the way back to the 1500's (like this one of America in 1562). The maps have been converted to digital form (SID format - viewer available here) but are viewable in .GIF form in your browser. I was able to look up my hometown during 1871 and see the church in which I'm getting married. Who thought the LOC could be so 31337?"

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  1. really mature by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Imagine my shock when I go to a page full of hairy guys carrying signs says "burn all gifs" are you trying to get me fired? That stuff is nasty.

    I clicked on the gif link because I'm not sure what a sid file is. I always thought they were those c64 tunes)

  2. I saw a 1510-1520 dutch map with Nantuket Isle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I saw a 1510-1520 dutch map with Nantuket Isle on it.

    It was spelled nantuke but still thats amazine for a probably-uninhabited island having a name honored for another 500 years. (Nantuket is next to cape cod).

    I saw that on the ancient lewis and clark map they called Puget Sound (near seattle) Puget Sound.

    WOW! I think its great when people leave names alone for hundreds of years.

    Too bad they renamed Cape Canaveral for 30 years or so in an offensive act of legislature.

    Now they renamed "Army Street" in SF, CA to a communist name. They are even giving the commie his own stamp.

    I suppose russia and the us rename streets often, and lakes periodically. (all the countless lakes and streams with the n*gg*r word were alterred... the last holdout in MI went a couple years ago.

    BUT THANKFULLY civilizations leave waterway inlets and islands unchanged in name.