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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. MrSID viewer? by Quixote · · Score: 2, Troll

    The viewer requires registration. If a site requires registration to give out its "free" product, then I don't consider it 'free' anymore. Anyone have any other viewers for MrSID?

  2. America in the 1500's? by Dankling · · Score: 0, Troll

    like this one of America in 1562

    ehhh, anyone who knows their history knows that America didn't come into existence until 1700's.

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