{"id":16,"date":"2012-03-12T12:05:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/map-collection-overview\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:30:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Collection Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">Housed on the third floor of the Main Library, t<\/span>he Map Collection contains more than 250,000 sheet maps, including maps issued by city, county, state and national governments, international organizations, and a variety of commercial publishers. The collection is international in scope.\u00a0 Subject coverage is broad and includes all geological maps transferred from the Geoscience Library.\u00a0Rare maps include pre-1900 maps of Iowa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/sanbornmaps\">fire insurance maps\u00a0<\/a>for more than 1,000 Iowa cities from the 1870s through the 1930s, and a growing collection of pre-1900 world and celestial maps and atlases. The collection also holds German and Japanese topographic maps captured during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>The Map Collection also contains over 150,000 aerial photographs of Iowa and over 5,000 gazetteers, atlases, and reference sources concerning maps and cartography. Desktop mapping software and equipment for small-scale scanning are available for patron use.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the Map Collection\u2019s resources are not accessible on-line. Please ask the Map Collection staff for assistance with discovering these resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The University of Iowa Libraries Map Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-maps.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}