Directions for Saving Maps or Images

Create a word processing document which you name "Places." 

• Copy and paste the title of each image
• Copy and paste the name of the collection and its URL
• Record the subjects or keywords that you used to locate the image.
• Right-click your mouse and Save Image As (.gif or .jpg) in your folder.

For American Memory collections, record the particular URL of an image by:

• Click on View----->Page Source in your browser
• Scroll to the bottom of the source page
• Locate the URL that begins <!-- http:// and ends with two parentheses )) --> 
• Highlight the URL beginning with the http:// and including the two parentheses ))
• Copy and paste the URL into your document

Here's an example:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(g3804n+pm006071))+@field(COLLID+citymap))

• Historical Maps of the United States
• Index of States (1895)
• State Electronic Map Collections
• U.S. Outline map for printing
• Map Collections 1544-1996 -  Search across all collections or within major categories:
  
  
  • General Maps - physical environment and a variety of cultural elements for a geographic area larger than a city or town at a particular point in time.
    
    
  • Cities and Towns - individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems.
    
    
  • Panoramic Maps 1847-1920 - popular cartographic nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.
    
    
  • Conservation and Environment - early exploration and subsequent land use, changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife, growth and development of U.S. National Parks.
    
    
  • Mapping the National Parks  - documents the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of areas that eventually became four National Parks (Acadia, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains and Yellowstone).  The collection consists of approximately 200 maps dating from the 17th century to the present.
    
    
  • Transportation and Communication - development and status of transportation and communication systems on the national, state, and local level, including canal and river systems, cycling routes, railway lines and systems, roads and road networks, and traffic patterns. Communication maps illustrate the location and distribution of telegraph routes, telephone systems and radio coverage.
    
    

• The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections  - 900 photographs of rural and small town life (tools, sod houses, family pictures) at the turn of the century.
  
  
• Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 - portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents,and other works.
  
  
• Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, ca. 1851-1991 - about 4,000 panoramic views of American main streets, landscapes, bathing beauties, disasters, and other events.
  
  
• American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - 2,800 lantern slides (can browse by state) represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes built during the period 1850-1920, including views of cities, specific buildings, parks, estates and gardens and locations around the country include plans, maps, and models.and features such as formal gardens, terraces, and arbors.
  
  
• Touring Turn-of-the-Century America Photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920 - 25,000 photographs of turn-of-the-century America from the Detroit Publishing Company.
  
  
• Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959 - over 14,000 photographs of the exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential and government buildings, street scenes and views of neighborhoods, news and human interest items in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
  
  
• The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 with essay New York City at the Turn of the Century
  
  
• Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 - 17 films depict San Francisco and its environs before the 1906 disaster, 7 films describe the great earthquake and fire, including a 1915 travelogue that shows scenes of the rebuilt city and a tour of the Panama Pacific Exposition and a 1916 propaganda film.
  
  
• American Environmental Photographs 1831-1936 - About 4,500 photographs of natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities by American botanists provide an overview of important representative natural landscapes (topography, forestation, aridity, shifting coastal dune complexes, and watercourses).   Comparison of early photographs with later views highlights changes resulting from natural alterations of the landscape, disturbances from industry and development, and effective natural resource usage.  Can be searched by state (county and city indexed where known).
  

Strategy# 2: Use the Places Pathfinder to organize your search for particular states. 


Strategy# 3: Search across American Memory collections for names of cities and towns.

• Look for pictures of California towns and cities such as: Berkeley and Oakland Businesses and Scenes, ca. 900-ca. 1939 and Buildings of Berkeley, California, ca. 1915
  
  
• Examine items in a scrapbook of San Francisco history: Jesse Brown Cook Scrapbooks Documenting San Francisco History and Law Enforcement, ca. 1895-1936 The Jesse Cook scrapbooks consist of thirty-nine volumes containing an estimated 12,000 items, including photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera, primarily centering on the history of San Francisco and police activity in the city.   They include pictures inside the city prison, morgue, and coroner's office; historical events such as the building of the Bay Bridge, President Taft breaking ground in Golden Gate Park, the openings of the cable car lines, the transcontinental phone line, and the Panama Canal. Numerous street scenes in San Francisco are included, as well as shots of Chinese immigrants and Chinatown, the architecture and neighborhoods of San Francisco, police work and crime in San Francisco, city events, and views from the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Strategy#2: Read the Collection Highlights  by selecting The Collection


Strategy#3:Browse the Collection List  to review the list of over 160 individual archival collections.