Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
This collection provides unique insight into the age of cartography and the rise of leisure travel, providing access to a diverse collection of historic maps, atlases, gazetteers, and travel narratives produced in the 19th century.
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The 19th century saw an explosion of maps of all varieties, and as the Age of Cartography progressed, maps and travel became synonymous with scientific discovery, exploration, industrialization, imperialism, and literacy. This archive includes a selection of maps culled from the British Library, the UK National Archives, the American Antiquarian Society, and the University of Alberta.
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Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineReading Level: 1301L—+
Product Type: Primary Sources
Content Types: Manuscripts, Maps, Periodicals, Photographs & Images
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“The scope of this digitization project makes it a significant research resource for both scholars and undergraduates. There are several benefits to this scope: the sheer size of the collections; the geographic range including comparative materials from various cultures; and the variety of types of documents including a significant amount of unpublished material . . . . The new platform tools developed for NCCO are impressive and should be useful to scholars as well as students. These include the browse features for 'Exploring Collections,' the search within results features, text analysis tools, and sophisticated image viewing tools.”
“The British Library is delighted to be partnering with Gale Cengage Learning to provide access to some of our rare and unique holdings from the 19th Century via the innovative Nineteenth Century Collections Online platform. NCCO's options for search and navigation through rich content from many libraries and archives opens up some of our vast collections in ways never possible before.”