Historical Maps Available over the Internet

     The special collections unit here at Georgia has  been scanning parts of
their collections, mainly WPA photos, and making the images available to
researchers at Georgia.  They have put some of these images on a www server and
made them available to to Mosaic and other users on the Internet.  They are
now doing some of their maps and have started to make the maps available.
Some brief information is given below.  How useful are these images of the
maps?
     The Hargrett Library at the University of Georgia Libraries is in the
process of having some 850 of their rare maps converted to digital files.  The
Hargrett Library at Georgia is the rare materials collection.  The maps are
from the 1600 to 1870 period.  The project is to be done by the end of 1994.
The maps are microfilmed and the negative is scanned at 2400 dpi to produce the
digital file.

    Only 20% of the 850 maps will be available over the net because of the size
of the files.  Five maps are currently available.

    The maps are available through the Libraries www server.  The address of
University of Georgia's homepage is:  http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu
Once you get the homepage the maps can be found under Digital Picture Archives,
then Hargrett Library - Special Collections, and then under Rare Maps.
OR you can go direct to:
      http://scarlett.libs.uga.edu/1h/www/darchive/hargrett/maps.html

Johnnie Sutherland
Map Collection
University of Georgia Libraries


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