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in
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a Map
"Improving"
Michigan
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Blame
the Mapmaker!
Every
Map Has
a Purpose
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We hope you find
these links to information about maps useful and informative. We try to check them periodically, but we cannot
be responsible for their availability or content. If you see problems
with response or content at any of these sites, please notify that
site's webmaster.
Maps,
Old and New
- 16th,
17th, and 18th Century Maps of North America and the Great Lakes
(Wisconsin's French Connection, UWGB)
- The
British Library Map Collections
- Cartes
Géographiques, Bibliothèque
Nationale du Québec (in French except for English summary of the
site)
- Center
for Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Science, Michigan
State University
- The
Harvard Map Collection
(Harvard College Library)
- Library
of Congress
- Map Collection
at the Library
of Michigan
- Map
Division, William L. Clements Library
- Mapping
Michigan (Clarke
Historical Library)
- Mercator's
World
- Michigan
Center for Geographic Information
- Michigan
Maps
(Michigan Economic Development Corporation)
- Michigan
State University Map Library
- National
Atlas of the United States (U. S. Dept. of the Interior)
- Online
Maps (Michigan
Department of Natural Resources)
- Osher
Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
University of Southern Maine
- An
Overview of Cartography
(Museum of New France, Canadian Museum of Civilization)
- Pioneering
the Upper Midwest
(Library of Congress
- University
of Michigan Map Library
- Upper Midwest Regional Earth Science Applications Center
(RESAC) (Maps from RESAC can be seen in the
exhibit's education area.)
- Western
Michigan University, University Libraries, Map Collection
Especially
for Students and Teachers
- Educational
Resources for Cartography, Geography, and Related Disciplines (U.S.
Geological Survey)
- Geographical
Resources and Maps (Michigan
Electronic Library, Library of Michigan)
- The
Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century by Mark
Steuer (Article from Voyageur on the
"Wisconsin's French Connection site, UWGB)
- The
National Geographic Society
- Old Map, New Map: Let's Compare
(Lesson plan from Wisconsin
Historical Society School Services)
- Oregon
Trail Teachers Guide, Map Activities (National Park Service)
- Paper
Trails: The Michigan Highway Map
by LeRoy Barnett (the
history of Michigan's highway maps from Michigan History
magazine) [PDF,
Adobe Acrobat Reader required]
- Rand
McNally
- Teacher's
Guide for Michigan Time Traveler, "What's Cool About Maps"
Newspapers In Education page, Lansing State Journal,
October 10, 2001 [PDF,
Adobe Acrobat Reader required]
What's
Cool About Maps? features 29 maps from the collection of the Jesse
Besser Museum, Alpena, Michigan. The exhibit
This online minitour of the exhibit features one map from each of seven themes.
Visit each of the themes by clicking on the titles in the left
column. The map images were photographed under existing light
conditions in the gallery. Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.
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