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On Display This Week: Early Geology Map of Michigan
Geological Map of Michigan. By Alexander Winchell, Published in Philadelphia by Samuel Geil in 1865.
On Display This Week: Ethnic Clusters in Michigan, 1945
The Farm People of Michigan According to Ethnic Stocks. Made by John Frederick Thaden. Published in East Lansing by the Michigan State College Agricultural Experiment Station in 1945.
Five early maps of California, 1604-1767
Carte de la Californie. Published in Robert de Vaugondy’s Supplement 5 to Denis Diderot’s Dictionnaire rasonné des sciences. Published in Paris in 1772.
On Display This Week: Dakota Territory, 1882
Territory of Dakota. Made by Charles Roeser. Published in Washington, DC by the United States General Land Office in 1882.
This is the last week to drop off food for our food drive competition with the University of Michigan. Show your Green pride. Help us win!
The last day to get food or personal items in is Friday, May 31. The donations will go to the MSU Food Bank to help others.
More information: http://www.lib.msu.edu/features/?e=329. Go Green!
On Display This Week: Senegal-Gambia, circa 1666
Genehoa, Jaloffi, et Sierraliones Regna. By Johannes Janssonius. Likely published in Atlas Contractus by Janssonius Heirs in Amsterdam in 1666.
On Display This Week: The Panama Canal
Panama Canal, Present Future, Topographic, Diagramatic and Illustrative: As Canal Will Look When Completed. By Edwin J. Beverstock and George Davidson. Published in Washington, D.C. by mapmaker Edwin J. Beverstock in 1903.
On Display This Week: The Curvature of the Earth
The First Photograph Ever Made Showing the Division between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere and Also the Actual Curvature of the Earth. By A. W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson. Published in the May 1936 issue of National Geographic Magazine in Washington, D.C.
On Display This Week: Africa Mid-Century
Africa. Map 49 in A General Atlas Of The World, With A Separate Map Of Each Of The United States Of America. By S.G. Goodrich and T.G. Bradford. Published in Boston by C.D. Strong in 1841.
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