http://www1.universia.net/catalogaxxi/C10055PPESII1/S12579/P12566NN1/INDEX.HTMLGEOGRAFÍA EN MUSEOS Y EXPOSICIONEShttp://www1.universia.net/catalogaxxi/img/cabecera/universia1.gif http://www1.universia.net/CatalogaXXI Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«The Alberta Airphoto collection consists of 30,000 copyright cleared airphotos of primarily urban areas in Alberta, flown at different times since 1924. These airphotos provide information on changes in the geography and landscape of the areas included and can be traced on flight line maps for comparison purposes over time.» ]]> «Explore in all directions, North, East, South, and West to learn about the art and science of cartography - the maps, the mapmakers, and the map-users of history, today, and the future.» ]]> «A decade after Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness first depicted the mysteries and agonies of the area, Herbert Lang and James Chapin set sail for the northeastern Belgian Congo. They knew they were launching an extraordinary adventure, but they could not have imagined what those years would hold. By the time they sailed home five and a half years later, they had collected tons of precious zoological and anthropological specimens representing one of the most comprehensive collections of the day.»
Multimedia Introduction]]> «American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920 comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and society from about 1750 to 1920. Also included is the thirty-two-volume set of manuscript sources entitled Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, published between 1904 and 1907 after diligent compilation by the distinguished historian and secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society Reuben Gold Thwaites.»]]> «There’s no agreement on who first laid eyes on Antarctica, but the so-called "heroic era" of Antarctic exploration began in the early 1900s, when Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton led several high-profile expeditions into the heart of the continent.
Discoveries made on these journeys helped establish Antarctica as scientific territory, and paved the way for the thousands of scientists, journalists, artists, and even tourists who have followed.» ]]> «The World's Transportation Commission Photograph Collection contains nearly nine hundred images by American photographer William Henry Jackson. In addition to railroads, elephants, camels, horses, sleds and sleighs, sedan chairs, rickshaws, and other types of transportation, Jackson photographed city views, street and harbor scenes, landscapes, local inhabitants, and Commission members as they travelled through North Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania.» ]]> «Avalanches are a significant mountain hazard -- responsible for more deaths each year in the United States than earthquakes. Once in motion, snow slides are a powerful force of nature, capable of snapping off mature trees like match sticks, and easily destroying buildings. And when an avalanche finally stops, the snow sets up like concrete, making rescue efforts extremely difficult, and chances for survival slim.»]]> «To fly non-stop around the world in a balloon was one of aviation's last great challenges - a challenge that was finally met on March 20, 1999 by Bertran Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain. On this site, you can delve into the history of science and ballooning, follow the attempts of earlier balloonists to make the round-the-world flight, and more.»]]> «This web site is just one element in our integrated package of educational materials examining Canada's Arctic environments and the organisms that occur in them.
OUR MOTIVATION: Although the Arctic comprises more than a third of our nation, most Canadians have only a superficial knowledge of our polar regions. We decided that an innovative educational effort was needed to direct Canadian perspectives northward.»]]> «This web site provides information on a variety of topics relating to the Canadian Arctic. The site is dynamic and the range of topics and the depth of treatment will be augmented over time under the auspices of the Digital Collection Program of Industry Canada.»]]> «The Arctic offered that spiritual peace that is present in all landscapes. It is a place of light, pastels, and colours made sharp by the cold. The terrain is a never ending emptiness at the edge of the habitable world, but beckons to be explored and interpreted. It is special.»]]> «You are about to begin an interesting voyage that will take you on a trip to view the many picturesque heritage rivers that meander throughout the Canadian landscape. Our voyage will include maps and photographs of the rivers and surrounding territories, as well as geographical and historical information. Interesting facts, valuable tourist information, and the reasons these rivers received a heritage designation are at your fingertips.» ]]> «...focuses on traditional waterway usage around Fort Smith, Fort Fitzgerald and Salt River Settlement. Before the highway was created these communities were pivotal as waypoints in navigating the only serious water obstacle in the 2,000 mile stretch between Waterways, Alberta and the Arctic Coast.» ]]> «Prior to the completion of the Canso Causeway in 1955, Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia were completely separated by a narrow body of water called the Strait of Canso. Cape Breton was dependant on a system of railway and highway ferries for shipping and communication. The mile long eighty foot wide man-made causeway is known as the deepest in the world and has taken care of the traffic and communication problems along with having a tremendous impact on the economy of the strait region.» ]]> «Images, maps and texts from the 18th and early 19th centuries reveal contrasting experiences of life on and around plantations in the former British colonies.» ]]> 230 documentos. ]]> Universidad de Alicante.
«Trazar un esbozo del perfil biográfico de Cristóbal Colón, sobre todo cuando nos remontamos hasta los primeros tiempos de su vida, plantea el problema de las incertidumbres y lagunas que existen sobre la misma, pese a todos los esfuerzos realizados por los investigadores en aclararla. Una biografía que está, además, enmascarada por muchas atribuciones y supuestos hallazgos, imputables tanto a la proyección histórica de Colón y del descubrimiento de América, con toda la polémica que a lo largo del tiempo ha suscitado, como a las mismas noticias confusas y contradictorias ofrecidas por su hijo Fernando, quizá intentando reivindicar un origen noble para el descubridor.»]]>Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada. ]]> «The historic Baccalieu Trail begins at the junctions of Highway #70 and the Trans Canada, and continues on a 200km loop around the Bay de Verde Peninsula back to the Trans Canada at Whitbourne. The region boasts a rich, colourful heritage, from the very oldest communities in Newfoundland to dramatic vistas and coastlines to Baccalieu Island, a world-class bird colony.» ]]> «More than 925 historic maps with links to high-resolution MrSID files.»]]> «Carleton University is a place as well as an institution. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, this place is a second home to many thousands of students and staff. It is part of Canada's capital. It is the multiple collections of buildings, paths, trees, rocks and fauna which form the backdrop for academic and social life here. It is also an ever-changing array of mental images of the immediate environment held by each student and member of the staff.»]]> The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1926.
«Ernest Shackleton, a British polar explorer, hired Frank Hurley to record, in still and moving pictures, an expedition to Antarctica, the last unexplored region on Earth. By 1914, Norway had beaten England to both the North and South poles. Now, as war loomed in Europe, Shackleton determined to win for England another polar prize: a trek across Antarctica on foot. Hoping to partly finance the expedition through advance sale of photographic, movie, and story rights, Shackleton hired Hurley.»]]> «The site is an intensive look at the personalities, dangers, history, culture, and lore surrounding the world's highest mountain.»]]> Universidad de Alicante.
«Cada vez son más los estudiosos que se acercan al mundo de los viajes y viajeros para contrastar las fuentes históricas al uso con los testimonios de primera mano de los que visitaron los lugares reseñados. No cabe ninguna duda de que los testimonios de estos visitantes, foráneos o nativos, por España y sus territorios de ultramar presentan una visión diferente y distante a la que nos tenía acostumbrados la historiografía tradicional debido, fundamentalmente, a que sus objetivos eran bien distintos y su narración mucho más cercana a la de historiadores posteriores en tiempo y espacio.»]]>Virtual Museum Canada.
«An island off the Yukon North Slope in the Beaufort Sea that was home to ancestors of the people of the Arctic and served as an American commercial whaling colony in the 1890s. A dozen whaling structures still stand and there are rich archaeological and palaeontological sites. It is managed according to the Inuvialuit Final Agreement.» ]]> Catálogo completo, visita virtual y relación completa de piezas.
«La exposición, cuya finalidad es recordar la gran tarea civilizadora de España en el Pacífico, especialmente en el archipiélago de las Filipinas, está estructurada en tres secciones: el descubrimiento y las expediciones (Derroteros, navegantes y expediciones científicas), la Administración y la cristianización (Gobernar, administrar, evangelizar) y el resultado del fructífero intercambio comercial entre Asia y España (Un Archipiélago de intercambios). Para su sede en Manila se han reunido 188 piezas entre instrumentos científicos, mobiliario, orfebrería, pinturas, mapas, esculturas y armas.» ]]> «The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 consists of 15,000 pages of original historical material documenting the land, peoples, exploration, and transformation of the trans-Appalachian West from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The collection is drawn from the holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides, letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records, maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images.» ]]> «Around the world, unruly rivers have long driven a hard bargain. In exchange for rich soil, irrigated land and convenient transportation, they have forced floodplain dwellers to deal with an occasional washout. Engineers have labored for thousands of years to lessen the risk, but their attempts at managing Mother Nature have been mixed -- often resulting in as much failure as success.»]]> «Fort Selkirk, found just north of the confluence of the Yukon and Pelly rivers, is a land of very cold, dry winters and mild, temperate summers.» ]]>«Dans le langage courant actuel, "utopique" veut dire impossible ; une utopie est une chimère, une construction purement imaginaire dont la réalisation est, a priori, hors de notre portée. Or, paradoxalement, les auteurs qui ont créé le mot, puis illustré le genre littéraire inventé par Thomas More en 1516, avaient plutôt pour ambition d'élargir le champ du possible, et d'abord de l'explorer. Certes, l'utopie se caractérise par un recours à la fiction, par un artifice littéraire qui consiste à décrire une société idéale dans une géographie imaginaire, souvent dans le cadre d'un récit de voyage purement romanesque. Mais imaginaire ou fictif ne veut pas dire impossible : tout rêve n'est pas chimère. Les utopies relevant de la littérature politique, du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, participent d'une critique de l'ordre existant et d'une volonté de le réformer en profondeur ; le recours à la fiction est un procédé qui permet de prendre ses distances par rapport au présent pour mieux le relativiser et de décrire, d'une manière aussi concrète que possible, ce qui pourrait être. Et l'épanouissement du genre utopique correspond à une période où l'on pense, justement, que, plutôt que d'attendre un monde meilleur dans un au-delà providentiel, les hommes devraient construire autrement leurs formes d'organisation politique et sociale pour venir à bout des vices, des guerres et des misères. En ce sens, les descriptions qu'ils proposent, dans lesquelles ils font voir des cités heureuses bien gouvernées, visent à convaincre leurs lecteurs que d'autres modes de vie sont possibles.» ]]> «George Back 1795-1878) created a remarkable record of his expeditions to the Arctic region from 1818 until 1837. His sketches, drawings and writing document the extraordinary Arctic landscape and topography, its people, flora and fauna. He was not alone in charting the Arctic coast. Back's career was intertwined with John Franklin's with whom he served on two expeditions, first from 1819 to 1822 and again from 1825 to 1827.
George Back is recognized as a talented artist, a capable explorer and compassionate leader. His drawings and writing contribute greatly to our knowledge of the Northern Canadian region in the early nineteenth century.» ]]> «The Grand River watershed drains an area of 6,500 square kilometres to Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario just to the west of the Greater Toronto area. Land use within the basin is varied, with agricultural and rural land used dominant in the northern and southern portions, and urban land uses concentrated in the central region. The natural beauty, cultural diversity and recreational opportunities of the river system have been officially recognized through the designation of the Grand River as a Canadian Heritage River.» ]]> Virtual Museum Canada.
«Discover the Queen Charlotte Islands and the Haida Gwaii people's profound relationship with the sea.» ]]> «Come navigate up the waters of the beautiful Gatineau River. Discover the history of this region through the compilation of images and stories that have been archived by the Historical Society of the Gatineau. Learn about the legacy of the people who braved the wilds to found today's society. See how three aspects of the region's history: people, transportation and logging melded together to form a unique way of life.» ]]> «The maps in this gallery reflect the development of European knowledge of African geography from 1562 through 1940. They are reproduced with the permission of the New York Public Library and the British Library. These maps are displayed using the tilepic software available from University of California, Berkeley Digital Library Project.»]]> Virtual Museum Canada.
«...is the story of the conquest of the Canadian Arctic by Captain Bernier and his men. It is also about two worlds, Inuit and French, coming together.» ]]> Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«Each of the county atlases consisted of a historical text, township and town maps, portraits, views and patrons' directory / business cards. But more important, names of residents were marked on the lots of the township maps in these county atlases. Unfortunately only the names of subscribers were recorded on the township maps for the Dominion of Canada supplements. All of these atlases were sold by subscription. Prominent county residents paid an additional sum to have biographical sketches, portraits and views of their residences or businesses included in the atlases.» ]]> «Discover the “Island Way of Life” expressed through our art, music, and literature. It is in our relationship with our natural heritage. It is visible in our outstanding citizens and community spirit. We share it with the world through our industries—from farming and fishing to aviation and information technology. It is the way we live on Prince Edward Island.»]]> «American Museum of Natural History scientists Herbert Lang and James Chapin left New York Harbor bound for the Congo on May 8, 1909. They returned home about five-and-one-half years later. This interactive itinerary illustrates their voyage from New York to Western Africa, then up the Congo River to the Ituri Forest region, where the bulk of their collecting took place.»]]> 3147 documentos. ]]> «...dedicated to the historic Queensport Lighthouse, located in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This site will provide viewers of all ages with the opportunity to learn about the Queensport Lighthouse and the brave individuals who resided there. We hope you enjoy this website, but most of all we hope you gain a better appreciation and respect for the Queensport Lighthouse Keepers whose beacon provided passing vessels with the guiding light they needed to reach their destinations.» ]]> «3,000 watercolours, drawings and prints from the vast collection amassed by a monarch for whom geography was a personal passion as well as a professional necessity.» ]]> «Lo que aquí se presenta no es sino un pálido reflejo del discurso que desarrolló la cartografía "occidental" en el momento crucial en que la sociedad europea dice descubrir el resto del mundo.
Por supuesto en esta exposición se mostrarán algunos de los ejemplos más espectaculares, pero no por ello únicos, y que además entroncan con el discurso textual de cronistas, conquistadores, viajeros, y, de modo evidente o solapado, con el discurso oficial de las monarquías europeas en sus intereses coloniales particulares.»]]> «La Géographie d'al-Idrîsî propose, au milieu du XIIe siècle, une exploration du monde par un savant arabe vivant à la cour cosmopolite du roi normand Roger II de Sicile. C'est un atlas qui décrit de manière très codifiée les pays, leurs villes principales, leurs routes et leurs frontières, les mers, les fleuves et les montagnes. Al-Idrîsî commente ces cartes en suivant des itinéraires, comme un véritable guide. Il livre des informations de toute nature, géographiques bien sûr, mais également économiques et commerciales, historiques et religieuses. Outre la compilation des connaissances déjà pratiquées par ses prédécesseurs, al-Idrîsî s'est doté d'une méthode pour compléter et vérifier ses informations.»]]> Interesante muestra de mapas antiguos.]]> «Du manuscrit médiéval enluminé à la photographie de mirage gravitationnel, plus de 200 pièces originales révèlent les interrogations, les conceptions et les représentations des hommes de tous les temps sur l’univers et sa création, dans leurs dimensions historique, imaginaire et philosophique.
L’exposition accompagne le visiteur dans une grande promenade jalonnée par des documents de toutes les époques, anciennes et moderne, et mettant en scène une aventure où la science et l’imaginaire se côtoient.»
L'Atlas Catalan
Atlas e Globes. L'astronomie des Césars]]> «"Le Tour du Monde" fue la pionera de las revistas de viaje. Se editó en Paris entre 1860 y 1914, pero nos hemos limitado a escoger sus 12 primeros años. Además de los relatos de los principales exploradores de la época, ofrecía grabados de los mejores ilustradores del momento. Este CD contiene una selección de estas imágenes, que aún hoy siguen siendo extraordinarias.»]]> «In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and a party of several dozen men known as the "Corps of Discovery" on a journey that would take them two and a half years to complete. The expedition has been known to generations of Americans as a grand, romantic adventure of discovery and as a search for a water route to the Pacific Ocean. But it was about so very much more. The explorers brought back detailed descriptions of the flora, fauna, and general topography of the American Northwest, as well as maps and as many specimens as they could collect and carry.»]]> «...you will be able to follow the Lewis and Clark trail, and discover the flora and fauna as they described it along the way. You can either choose the interactive map, or browse the collection by category.»
«On May 21, 1804, under a threatening sky, blusterous winds, and later, hard rain, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and 43 men left the town of St. Charles, Missouri on the north bank of the Missouri River. Shoving off to three rounds of cheers from "gentlemen on the bank" (Clark) they began a journey like no other in the short history of the United States, and like none since.»]]> «At the time of the expedition, the United States of America had just acquired from France a vast area of the North American interior. Called the Louisiana Purchase, this area included much of what are now the 15 states of Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his supporters wanted to learn more about this new area of the country, its waterways, its inhabitants, its natural resources, and its possibilities for settlement by Americans. One of the chief purposes of the Corps of Discovery expedition was to map the new Northwest territory, to fill in the empty spaces on the maps of the time.»]]> «The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items, of which Map Collections represents only a small fraction, those that have been converted to digital form.
The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection.» ]]> «This collection of Liberia maps includes twenty examples from the American Colonization Society (ACS), organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, indigenous political subdivisions, and some of the building lots that were assigned to settlers. This on-line presentation also includes other nineteenth-century maps of Liberia: a map prepared for a book first published in the 1820's by ACS agent Jehudi Ashmun, a map showing the areas in Liberia that were ceded to the society by indigenous chiefs, and a detailed map dated 1869 by a man thought to be the black American explorer Benjamin Anderson.» ]]> «Carving its way through the Precambrian Shield, the Mississagi River meets Lake Huron at Blind River, Ontario. In the past the Mississagi served as a route through the wilderness of Northern Ontario for the nomadic Ojibwa tribes. It gave settlers access to the Mississagi River Valley, which is the area from Wharncliffe north to Aubrey Falls.»]]> «El Desierto Chihuahuense se ubica en 10 estados de la República Mexicana -Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí y parte de Hidalgo, Querétaro y Aguascalientes- y dos de la Unión Americana -Nuevo México y Texas-.
Es el desierto más grande de Norteamérica y tema de estudio del Museo del Desierto.»]]> «Le territoire du village de l’Industrie, rappelons-le, faisait partie à l’origine des seigneuries de Lavaltrie, de Lanoraie et de D’Aillebout jusqu’aux premiers rangs du canton de Kildare en incluant les rangs de la Chaloupe. De forme irégulière, il s’étend sur huit milles de long et sur près de deux milles de largeur.»]]> «The first non-native people to change the cultural history of Nova Scotia in a significant and permanent way were the French colonists. These courageous people, faced with a geography and socio-cultural reality different from their distant homeland, developed their own culture and the Acadian people were born.» ]]> «If you look down at our planet from outer space, most of what you see is water; 71% of the planet's surface is covered by ocean and it is because of this that the Earth is sometimes called "the water planet". Only about three-tenths of our globe is covered with land.»]]> «The Okanagan Cultural Corridor is a cultural tourism development project, supported by Tourism British Columbia. The Project takes its name from the Okanagan Valley, a semi-arid, fruit and wine-producing region some 250 kilometers in length, nestled in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada.»]]> «In this era, economic growth and sustainable development bring to mind the contradictions of how we, as a society, think of the Ontario landscape and its natural resources. We need to understand how human actions have impacted the environment in order to predict what our impact will be in the future. This perspective requires comprehensive land use planning; and the solutions formed consider all users of natural resources. This is commonly referred to as an ecosystem approach where economic, social, physical, natural and cultural interests are considered connected and integrated into a comprehensive land use plan. The entire drainage network of a river, or watershed, is a natural geographic unit that represents a functioning ecosystem.»]]> «The original large-scale drawings made for the famous one-inch-to-the-mile maps present a detailed picture of England and Wales between the 1780s and 1840.» ]]> «Para Venezuela, el Orinoco constituye la primera reserva hídrica. La historia y el significado de este gigante de agua que comienza a formarse en las espesas selvas de la Sierra de Parima, en el estado Amazonas, y que cruza de Este a Oeste el escudo guyanés, para luego, en un cerrado giro, atravesar el país en sentido contrario, recibiendo el tributo de 31 afluentes principales, ríos andinos, llaneros y guyaneses, y de más de 2 mil afluentes menores.»]]> «You’ve arrived at the Vancouver Maritime Museum’s Northern Heritage image database. At this site, you will find over 2,500 images related to the Arctic and the St. Roch, the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage as well as the first vessel to circumnavigate the entire North American continent.»]]> «Una de las mejores maneras de conocer un país es realizar un minucioso recorrido por sus pueblos, sus campos, sus ciudades, sus regiones... Los fotógrafos, a lo largo de su vida profesional, se convierten en testigos silenciosos de la realidad de un pueblo, y captan con sus cámaras las esencias más profundas de una tierra. A través de las obras que se exponen a continuación, nos ofrecen la oportunidad de acercarnos un poco más a España, y conocer así hasta los más sutiles matices de su cultura.
La selección de obras del fotógrafo Eduardo Mencos conforman aquí amenos itinerarios, que se agrupan según las provincias o regiones que recorren.»
Recoge 454 imágenes divididas en 21 colecciones.]]> «The truth is that America, and North America in particular, was discovered - if we can use that word - one step at a time, by a number of people too great to count. In terms of geographical discoveries, it took more than four centuries of exploration, from the time of the arrival of the first Europeans, to discover and traverse a navigable passage across North America linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans - the famous Northwest Passage.»]]> «Ce site se veut un hommage à notre passé et un regard sur notre présent. Nous vous invitons à contempler notre belle région vallonnée qu'est le Haut-Saint-François. Vous découvrirez en naviguant sur ce site dynamique les artistes, les bâtiments patrimoniaux, les gens de chez-nous et les attraits qui composent, en partie, notre coin de pays.»]]> «La Municipalité régionale de comté (MRC) de Rimouski-Neigette est située dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent, entre le fleuve et le Nouveau-Brunswick. Aux îles, estrans et terrasses propres au littoral succède une contrée plus accidentée et bien plus vaste, couverte par les monts Notre-Dame. La beauté et la richesse du pays de la mer et de l'arrière-pays de monts expliquent la concentration de territoires voués à la conservation ou à la récréation...»]]> Itinéraires du Patrimoine.
«Le massif du Sancy est un ancien volcan complexe, constitué de plusieurs ensembles : le massif de la Banne d'Ordanche (à gauche), les monts Dore (à droite), séparés du Puy de Sancy par la Dordogne. L'érosion glaciaire a fortement modelé les reliefs, encaissant le cours de la rivière.»]]> Canada's Digital Collections. Government of Canada.
«This site full of historical detail provides visitors of all ages with descriptions of the lives of the inhabitants of New France from the XVIth to the XVIIIth century, as well as presenting the places they explored and inhabited. Through Malak's discerning eye, visitors can step back in time to see how the territory that would become Canada evolved throughout its history. The site includes photos taken in several regions of the country, with a focus on Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.» ]]> «...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 drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division. The collection's 138 volumes depict the land and its resources; the conflicts between settlers and Native peoples; the experience of pioneers and missionaries, soldiers and immigrants and reformers; the growth of local communities and local cultural traditions; and the development of regional and national leadership in agriculture, business, medicine, politics, religion, law, journalism, education, and the role of women.» ]]> «The struggle for Placentia in the sixteenth century involved the desperate fight for power between European nations for supremacy in the New World. The importance of Placentia relates to the importance of "fish" to the European markets. The capability of prolonged conservation made it possible to preserve food on transatlantic voyages to markets in Europe.»]]> «The Railroad maps represent an important historical record, illustrating the growth of travel and settlement as well as the development of industry and agriculture in the United States. They depict the development of cartographic style and technique, highlighting the achievement of early railroaders. Included in the collection are progress report surveys for individual lines, official government surveys, promotional maps, maps showing land grants and rights-of-way, and route guides published by commercial firms.» ]]> «This site contains text, photos, maps, video and music clips about Red Island and the French Fishery and its influence on the people and communities of the Port au Port Peninsula. You will get a glimpse of the past and of the present.»]]> «Sable Island, 300 km south-east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is renowned for its wild horses and shipwrecks. It is also an island with a fascinating geology and natural history that reflect the challenge of surviving wind, waves and isolation.»]]>Virtual Museum Canada.
«Sable Island is renowned for its wild horses and shipwrecks. It is also an island with a fascinating geology and natural history that reflect the challenge of surviving wind, waves and isolation.» ]]> Virtual Museum Canada.
«The purpose of this site is to allow the public to discover and appreciate the natural miracle of the Saguenay Fjord. We also wish to provide clear, accessible and serious information about the most significant aspects of its environment and its history.» ]]> «holds a collection of artifacts, paintings, drawings, photographs (including cinematographic film, lantern slides, and Daguerreotypes), and other material. A proportion of this is exhibited in a private museum on the ground floor which is freely open to persons with an interest in polar regions.»]]> «Antarctica is a place like no other. Ice and snow cover 98% of the continent while high mountain peaks and a few other bare rocky areas make up the only visible land. It is a region of extremes: the coldest, windiest, driest, and highest of all the continents. Stormy waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans surround Antarctica keeping it isolated and alone at the bottom of the world.»]]> «For Canada, no other river had such a wide impact on the history, economy and society than the St. Lawrence. From the hunting camps of the First Nations to the St. Lawrence Seaway, the river has seen numerous developments and modes of occupation. Consequently understanding the regional geography of the St. Lawrence provides numerous aspects about Eastern Canada.»]]> Virtual Museum Canada.
«SydenhamDiscovery.ca is a virtual exhibit exploring the culture, geology and biology of Southwestern Ontario's Sydenham River.» ]]> «The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. More than twenty foreign countries and a few U.S. territories are also represented.» ]]> «Most of the items presented here are documented in Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789: A Guide to the Collections in the Library of Congress compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen van Ee in 1981. The bibliography contains approximately 2,000 maps and charts. Over the next several years many of the maps and charts in this bibliography will be added to the online collection each month.» ]]> «The Exhibition... documented one of the greatest tales of survival in expedition history: Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to the Antarctic. Just one day's sail from the continent, the ship Endurance became trapped in sea ice. Frozen fast for ten months, the ship was crushed and destroyed by ice pressure, and the crew was forced to abandon ship. After camping on the ice for five months, Shackleton made two open boat journeys, one of which—a treacherous 800-mile ocean crossing to South Georgia Island—is now considered one of the greatest boat journeys in history. Trekking across the mountains of South Georgia, Shackleton reached the island's remote whaling station, organized a rescue team, and saved all of the men he had left behind.»]]> The Digital Journalist.
«Milton liked to refer to the Missouri as The Big Road because, before the dams, it was a thoroughfare for travelers. But the Missouri means more to us than any hard road. Its economic, military, agricultural, environmental. sporting and cultural implications have endured as long as man has lived here. Flowing through seven states, the 2,341-mile Missouri is the world's eighth longest river. It would rank third if we could persuade mapmakers that the Mississippi is just its tributary.» ]]> «The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Area, a collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s. Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides, nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime resident of South Texas. His photographs document the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.» ]]> «This story, one of the most extraordinary in the history of the 19th century, is the tale of the passion, the almost super-human will, and the genius of just one man, Ferdinand de Lesseps, who by his piercing of the Suez Isthmus joined East to West and brought life to the desert.»
«On 15 August, 1869, the waters of the Mediterranean finally flowed into the Red Sea via the Bitter Lakes. The maritime canal from Suez to Port Said, passing a little West of the Peluse, was 164Km long, 54Km wide and 8m deep. 75 million m3 of debris had been extracted, 3 towns founded (Suez, Ismailia and Port Said), 2 ports created (Suez and Port Said), and millions of hectares were now covered with rich farmland thanks to the fresh water canal. It cost Frf 432,807,882. Enthusiasm for it was as great in Great Britain as it was in France. Russia too was pleased. The US, however, owing to its geographic position, felt only marginally interested in the event.»
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The Canal]]> «This set of 1,000 maps and views traces the growing awareness of the form of British Isles and their place in the wider world during the years between 800 and 1600.» ]]> «Labrador, which forms the easternmost portion of the Canadian Shield, is approximately 112,000 square miles. The eastern coast is about 700 miles long and the 400 mile baseline lies along the 52 parallel.»]]> «A survey of the British landscape through 3,000 engravings and coloured aquatints by travelling artists, reflecting the 19th century's celebration of national identity.» ]]> «Work by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, George Scharf and John Buckler features among 3,000 images from the country's largest collection of topographical drawings.» ]]> «...incorporates 49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers trekking westward across America to Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of the rails in 1869. In addition to the diaries, the collection includes 43 maps, 82 photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for immigrants. Stories of persistence and pain, birth and death, God and gold, trail dust and debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium can be found in these original "on the trail" accounts.»]]> «Turbulent Landscapes is made up of 21 exhibits, 18 graphic stands, seven curved walls, a credit and introduction wall, 6 full benches (each in two sections), and an optional audio tour (with check-out desk). You can see the exhibit and read descriptions and comments for each exhibit.» ]]> «This is a record of the journeys undertaken by Duncan Campbell Scott and his party in 1905 and 1906 to offer Treaty Nine to the Ojibway and Cree people. This is a presentation of a historical event that occurred during the signing of Treaty Nine and there fore; it does not reflect the opinions and views of Oshki-Pimache-O-Win Institute, Nishnawbe Aski Nation or the First Nations of Nishnawbe Aski Nation.»]]> «L'espace méditerranéen, à la fois ottoman, musulman, juif et chrétien, qu'on appelle tour à tour Levant ou Orient, a suscité dans l'imaginaire occidental une fascination et une curiosité jamais démenties depuis l'époque des croisades. Les termes qui le désignent attestent de la dimension symbolique qui lui est attachée : le Levant, c'est ce lieu sacré où se lève le soleil, où la naissance du jour a vu briller l'aube des civilisations. L'Orient, c'est, au XIXe siècle, cette irrésistible aimantation vers l'Est, ce désir d'un espace magique, "image même du chaos dans sa splendide nudité", selon Maxime Du Camp.»]]> «Découvrez l'Afrique à travers les récits des voyageurs.
900 volumes de textes, 30 titres de revues, 80 cartes venant des collections imprimées de la BnF, 20 heures d'enregistrements sonores des fonds du Musée de la parole et du geste et 6500 photographies issues des fonds de la Société de géographie.» ]]> «Découvrez la France à travers les récits des voyageurs.
3000 imprimés, 6000 images (estampes, cartes, photographies...), 130 documents sonores recomposent ici un panorama de la France du Moyen Age au début du XXe siècle.
Invité au voyage, le lecteur peut choisir sa destination, son moyen de transport: départ immédiat.» ]]> «Imagine watching a bald eagle close up. Or joining a puffin inside its burrow. Or plunging over rocky cliffs into the water to gaze at giant barnacles and other sea life. Now you can do all this and more — virtually. An HHMI grant enabled the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska, to place several video cameras on nearby Gull Island in Kachemak Bay. Soon the birds on the island became accustomed to their electronic companions, even as students and other visitors controlled the cameras remotely from the museum. You can check out the action, too, in six video clips that bring Alaska to your computer.»]]> «The Year Book of British Columbia and Manual of Provincial Information by R.E. Gosnell (1860-1931), the first British Columbia Legislative Librarian and first Provincial Archivist, is a fascinating look at life in this province at the turn of the century.
This is the 1901 edition, which includes information back to 1897. Gosnell’s Year Book went through five editions between 1897 and 1914. Except for the first edition, which Gosnell self-published at a loss, all other editions were published by the Province of British Columbia and are in the pubic domain (copyright expired 50 years after publication).»]]> «This site provides valuable information about the people of Prince Edward Island for those interested in genealogy, history, and the geography of the colony of Prince Edward Island in the mid-19th century.» ]]> «This album of photographs appears to be the work of Simeon H. Parsons (1844-1908), one of Newfoundland's earliest professional, self-taught and award-winning photographers. The photographs are very much in the style for which Parsons was noted and cover a wide geographic area, including the Burin Peninsula and coastal Labrador, in addition to more easily accessible areas such as St.John's and eastern Newfoundland communities.» ]]>