https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-parks-maps/about-this-collection
The Library of Congress
offers this digital collection of 173 maps that either document U.S. national
parks or document regions that would later be designated as national parks.
More specifically, the collection documents depictions of four parks (Yellowstone,
Acadia, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains) and includes items
dating from the seventeenth century through the present. This collection
showcases maps that were created for a variety of purposes and features
seventeenth-century maps by European explorers, eighteenth-century property
maps, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and more. Visitors may browse these maps by
date, location, contributor, or subject. In addition, visitors may want to
check out the articles & essays section, which includes five essays that
provide additional insight into these maps. In one such essay, Library of
Congress cartographer Patricia Molen van Ee traces the history of mapping the
coast of Maine (and Acadia National Park) from 1856 through the 1990s. Her
essay is accompanied by a number of maps in the collection
via https://scout.wisc.edu/archives/r14767/library_of_congress_mapping_national_parks
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