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1. Jay I. Kislak Collection, 2000 BCE-2007 CE

   1,350 items. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Jay I. Kislak Collection encompasses almost fourteen hundred rare books, maps, manuscripts, historical documents, graphic works, and archaeological objects related to the history of the early Americas, including the pre-Columbian cultures of the Caribbean and Mesoamerica.

2. Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection

   approximately 10,000 items. 78 folios . -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Hauslab-Liechtenstein map collection contains some 10,000 manuscript and printed sheets. A large portion of these map and atlas sheets were compiled by the Austrian cartographer and general Franz Ritter von Hauslab. These were later acquired by Prince Jordan II of Liechtenstein, whose own maps complemented the Hauslab collection, hence the name Hauslab-Liechtentstein. Within the collection there are examples of various types of map reproduction, including copper engraving, lithography, photolithography, zincography, heliogravure, sun prints, and transfers. The collection also includes maps illustrating various techniques of cartographic representation and symbolism. There are large numbers of military, campaign, fortification, and battle maps and plans illustrating most of the major conflicts between the 1600s and 1800s. Among other distinctive groups are maps, sketches, and views of volcanoes, panoramic and perspective maps, geologic and geognostic maps, and language and ethnographic. Another distinctive category includes large and medium scale topographic maps series, including two hand-colored sets of the famous 1:86,400 Cassini survey of France, in 182 sheets, issued during the period 1744 to 1783. This is the earliest official topographic survey of an entire country. In addition, there are maps of the world, of all the continents, and of many individual countries, provinces, states, and cities. American maps are few in number. However, the collection is rich in European maps of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with emphasis on the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

3. Minto map collection, 1769-1811

   14 manuscript maps. 1 accompanying text. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The Minto map collection contains 14 manuscript maps of Penang (Malaya), Sumatra, Java, and Ternate (Dutch East Indies) and a short text accompanying one of the maps. The maps were collected on behalf of and owned by Gilbert Elliot, Earl of Minto, likely during his tenure as Governor-General of India from 1807-1814. These richly colored and illustrated maps show forts, cities, notable geographic features, and soundings of the waters surrounding and between islands. The maps reflect the geopolitical conflicts between the British, Dutch, and French empires in the Indonesian region during the Napoleonic Wars.

4. Senegal map collection, 1690-1973

   6 drawers. 149 folders. 167 maps. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The collection consists of 167 maps of Senegal, mostly in French, primarily showing the whole country, region, and city levels, covering a variety of subjects and uses. These maps make up a small part of the Geography and Map Division's holdings of maps that were acquired before the advent of digital cataloging in the 1970s. The maps in this collection span the years of 1690-1973, with the bulk of the collection spanning 1920-1970. The collection's strengths are in maps of administrative boundaries, city plans of Dakar, locations of natural resources, transportation lines, and other related subjects. The maps in this collection came to the Library through a variety of means, including government transfer, purchase, donation, and government agency deposits.