archives – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:51:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg archives – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 BNSF’s Map Archives https://www.maproomblog.com/2019/01/bnsfs-map-archives/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 22:51:45 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1787013 More]]> BNSF is one of the largest railways in North America. It’s the end product of a series of rail mergers, and as such it has records for all its antecedent railroads. Including, as an item posted to its website this month reveals, maps, which BNSF is now in the process of digitizing.

Some of the most historically significant maps that BNSF has are maps filed by our predecessor railroads. These maps depicted the beginning of the railroad as we know it, and were often the first official survey of some of the more remote areas of the developing West.

Many of our vital maps were found in boxes or stashed in file cabinets or storage rooms. “We went to 200-plus locations going through thousands, if not tens of thousands of boxes,” said Obermiller of the conversion. “Now we are preserving the most vital maps to ensure we are retaining our vital records and are good stewards of our heritage.”

No word in the piece as to whether those records are available to researchers or the public.

]]> 1787013 Confederate Maps at the U.S. National Archives https://www.maproomblog.com/2017/11/confederate-maps-at-the-u-s-national-archives/ Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:00:01 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=6167 More]]>
Map of the Battlefield of Shiloh; Tennessee; Confederate Maps, 1861-1876; War Department Collection of Confederate Records, 1825-1927, RG 109; NACP—Cartographic (RDSC).

The Unwritten Record, a blog by staff at the U.S. National Archives’s Special Media Archives Services Division, announced last month: “Civil War maps are always popular at the National Archives, and the Cartographic Branch is pleased to announce the digitization of over 100 Confederate maps from Record Group (RG) 109.  All are now available to view or download through our online catalog.” [Texas Map Society]

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