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Historic NH maps on display at GIS Day 2003

Historic maps will be the focus of three exhibits at UNH’s celebration of GIS Day, which will be held in Morse Hall on November 19, 2003 .  It is sponsored by the NH Space Grant Consortium.
Maps printed from the UNH Library Digital Map Collection will be featured on “NH Seacoast Through Time”, a collection of topographic and other maps depicting the Durham area from the 1870s to the 1950s. Durham
Hitchcock Atlas A new addition to the library’s digital collections, the entire 1878 Atlas of NH Geology will be on display along with information about its creator, Professor Charles Hitchcock, who was affiliated with both UNH and Dartmouth .
Forty panoramic maps of NH cities and towns from the 1890s are part of the roughly 100 other historic maps on display from the Library of Congress American Memory digital collection.

GIS Day is a geo-spatial science conference and college fair held annually to introduce high school students, the UNH community and the general public to geographic information, global positioning and remote sensing technologies, and consists of posters, exhibits, vendors and presentations.

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Posted on Friday March 04 2005


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