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Historic Maps
	Title	Archival Collections: Maps - Arizona State Museum
	Description	This site is dedicated to bringing forth one of the nation's richest and most comprehensive records of Southwestern prehistory and archaeological investigations. The Arizona State Museum Archives collects manuscripts and archival materials, maps, and sound recordings related to the archaeology and ethnology of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The aim of the authors is to give the readers information about the ASM and its contents. The main links on the homepage of the site break down into more specific categories. These categories give specific information that includes links to the AZSITE database, terms, and definitions.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Maps
	Link	http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/archives/archvmap.shtml
	Title	Cartography for Northern New Spain
	Description	“Cartography for Northern New Spain” provides access to a number of maps dating from the eighteenth century "that show major topographic features like rivers and mountain ranges as well as the communities that were forged by Indians and Spaniards on the northern frontier of the Spanish.” This web project was created by Cynthia Radding at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Department of History. The site also presents photographs that “show landscapes of the Sonoran Desert and piedmont country created over centuries of Indian, Hispanic, and modern Mexican settlement.”
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Maps
	Link	http://www.history.uiuc.edu/NewResources/Web_projects/Collec
	Title	Cultural Resource Sites Depicted on Early Maps of Pima County
	Description	In April of 2000 Statistical Research Inc. (SRI) produced this study which systematically examines three early Pima County maps and breaks the cultural resource sites depicted on each map into a series of tables. The maps are (1) the 1893 Official Map of Pima County by Rosdruge; (2) the USGS map covering the period 1904 to 1915, and (3) the USGS map covering the period 1942 to1963. Site typology across the maps includes features such as railroad stops, camps, cemeteries, house or cabin sites, churches, farms, medical facilities, mines, parks, ranches, schools, water tanks, wells, and transportation features. The tables sort features by name, township and range, and type of resource. In general these trends appear over time: water features experience the highest increase in recording on maps; ranch locations double; more prominence is given to parks and education sites, and, not surprisingly, urban and mining impacts increase. In addition to contributing the development of the Cultural Resources Element of the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, this document is a useful translation of some of the early maps of Pima County into database form and will likely contribute to future research. This resource is in PDF format.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Report
	Link	http://www.pima.gov/cmo/sdcp/reports/d2/004CUL.PDF
	Title	David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
	Description	The David Rumsey Collection contains a large number of historic maps, including many of the Southwest. Maps can be searched by keyword, creator, and region; they can be viewed online using a number of technologies, including a GIS browser. Users can also save groups of images that are of particular interest. A reproduction of any map in the collection can be purchased.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Maps
	Link	http://www.davidrumsey.com/
	Title	Maps of the Pimería
	Description	"Maps of the Pimería" provides online access to a selection of original rare and historic maps owned by the University of Arizona Libraries. The maps, covering four centuries, all portray Pimería (a province or region of Spanish colonial Mexico encompassing what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora). They range in age from a map dating to 1556 to one created just prior to the Gadsden Purchase in 1854.
	Language	English
	Resource Type	Maps
	Link	http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/pimeriamaps/index.html