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THE COMPASS

HISTORIC MAPS, CHARTS & GAZETTEERS

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../../images/blu_sm.gif  Immigration and Settlement:
American Memory Library of Congress
The immigration and settlement geography of the United States is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, and large-scale topographic maps.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The Ryhiner Collection:
Map collections as memories of the world.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The Library of Congress - Maps

../../images/blu_sm.gif  Perry-Casteneda Library Map Collection
Hundreds of maps from all over the world at various different times in history.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The U.S. Geographic Names Information System
This is the largest of the GNIS databases, containing records on almost two million geographic feature names in the United States: from populated places, schools, reservoirs, and parks, to streams, valleys, springs, and ridges."

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The Canadian Geographical Names Database - CGNDB

../../images/blu_sm.gif  Heritage Map Museum
Specializing in the sale of 15th to 19th century original antique maps and atlases

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker
Locate towns in Eastern or Central Europe, by name or location. U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases for 24 countries.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  Generations Press: Genealogical Books and Maps
Generations Press offers a variety of genealogical books and research tools in the areas of Jewish genealogy, Southern California resources, immigration research, and map reproductions. Generations Press also publishes a large selection of city and town plan reproductions, and a limited selection of regional map reproductions.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  FEEFHS Map Room - Background and Map Index
Austro-Hungarian Empire
German Empire - East
German Empire - West
Balkans
Russian Empire - European Russia
Asian Russian Empire - Siberia and the Russian Far East
Scandinavia

../../images/blu_sm.gif  Astrodienst Zurich: Atlas- and Timezone Database
Geographic Distribution of Atlas Data. There are 254,106 towns contained in the atlas database.

../../images/blu_sm.gif  The American Experience - America 1900
Select a region on this map to access the 1900 Timeline, which lists some events for that particular area.



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