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ABOUT THE COLLECTION
The PALMM World Map Collection reflects the several contributing collections from which its holdings are drawn. This digital collection endeavors to provide access to a geographically varied set of maps and plans. It is strongest in Florida, the Caribbean, and Africa.
FLORIDA
Florida Maps document a wide range of topics from topography to political divisions, from geology to hydrology and even to oil fields and spawning grounds. The maps define fire, flood, and hurricane risk and outline modes of transportation, from railway to interstate, even scenic highways and waterways have their place as do parks and other special-use places.
CARIBBEAN BASIN
Florida's history is as much that of a Caribbean state as a contitutent of the United States of America. A vast area, the Basin stretches from the Gulf Coast waters of the United States of America, along the backbone of Central America and across the sholder of northern South America. The Basin is best defined by the sweeping archipelago that is the West Indies, an arm embracing the Caribbean Sea and the sieve of Atlantic hurricanes. Maps of this region document trade routes, the colonial past, and a multi-cultural West Indian heritage.
AFRICA
These maps document, if not the African diaspora, the Africa as found by European slave-traders and colonizers. Ancient kingdoms can be seen mapped along-side European territorial claims.
THE WORLD
To many, representation of the rest of the world as seen through the PALMM World Map Collection will appear scant. The maps available beyond Florida, the Caribbean Basin and Africa usually bare direct relation to one of these three. Others represent maps of particular importance or value. Among these maps, digitization is as much "about preservation" as providing access.
PATH FINDERS

The following Path Finders, segments of the collection organized by geography, are separately described and available for searching independent of other maps in the collection.

SOURCES

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,
Florida Geological Survey

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/geology/

The Survey, through the retrospective holdings of the University of Florida, contributes its vast set of geologic survey maps. It's Map Series documents Florida's various geologic formations. Maps also show off-shore oil and gas fields.
The Survey's more current "born digital" collection is available online at http://www.dep.state.fl.us/geology/gisdatamaps/index.htm.
The Survey's associated text library is available through Florida Environments OnLine (FEOL).

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Geographic Information Systems / Remote Sensing Analysis Lab http://gislab.fiu.edu/gisrsal/frames/

Latin American and Caribbean Information Center (LACiC)
http://lacic.fiu.edu/

Manuscript and Archives Collections
http://gislab.fiu.edu/gisrsal/frames/index_archives.htm

Reclaiming the Everglades
http://everglades.fiu.edu/reclaim/

This joint product of the University of Miami's Archives and Special Collections, the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, and Florida International University's Everglades Digital Library, contributes maps of the Everglade National Park and the surrounding region.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Documents/Maps/Micromaterials Department

The Department contributes from largely from among its collection of Florida maps, documenting the settlement of Florida from its colonial past through contemporary era.

Special Collections
http://www.fsu.edu/~speccoll/index.html

The Special Collections of the Robert Manning Strozier Library provide maps from a variety of collections, including the Florida Collection and University Archives. Their contributions include maps of Florida, particularly North Florida, and of Florida State University.

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

Map & Imagery Library
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/maps/

This Library alone contains more than 497,800 maps; 266,500 aerial photographs; 2,250 remote sensing images; 7,215 atlases; and reference books. It is the largest academic map collection in the Southeast, and among the top five academic map collections in the entire United States.

The Map & Imagery Library contributes broadly to the PALMM World Map Collection. However, its contributions concentrate on antique and regional and world maps not held by the other contributors. Maps of Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and the "Holy Lands" of the Middle East are heavily represented among its contributions.

Special Collections
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/

The Florida Historical Map Collection is one of the treasures of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History. It contains more than 2,300 maps of Florida dating between 1564 and 1926.

The Manuscripts Collection contributes maps associated with its collections of regional interest. Its maps document Cuban agrarian history and the history of commercial agriculture before the revolution. Others document Haitian military and social history from the period of French colonization through the Haitian revolution.

The Rare Books Collection contributes maps and plates bound in books.

University Archives contribute maps and plans documenting University of Florida history.

Physical Plant Division
http://www.ppd.ufl.edu/

The Division's Architecture/Engineering section, in particular, contributes additional maps and plans of the University of Florida and its buildings.

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Archives and Special Collections Department Rare Map Collection
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/maps/

General Map Collection
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/maps/gen.html

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA

Special Collections and University Archives
http://www.unf.edu/library/sc/index.html

The Thomas G. Carpenter Library's Special Collections and University Archives provide maps of Jacksonville and North Eastern Florida in general, together with maps and plans of the University of North Florida.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

Special Collections Department
http://www.lib.usf.edu/public/index.cfm?Pg=SpecialCollections

The Department, located in the Tampa Campus Library, contributes from among its collection of Florida maps, documenting the settlement of Florida from its colonial past through contemporary era. Its contributions are particularly strong in Gulf Coast and Tampa Bay area maps.


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