The Library of Congress presents a set of photos which can be free to use and reuse. The LOC weblog not too long ago featured a subset of that assortment referred to as Maps of Cities. Maps of Cities is one of two units of historic maps obtainable by way of the Free to Use and Reuse assortment. The opposite set of maps is known as Discovery and Exploration.

Each the Maps of Cities and the Discovery and Exploration collections include about two dozen historic maps that you may obtain and reuse without cost in any classroom mission. All of the maps may be downloaded as JPEG recordsdata (three sizes obtainable) and as GIFs.

Purposes for Training
I’ve at all times beloved maps as a result of they spark my creativeness. Historic maps particularly make me surprise about what life was like within the locations depicted in these maps. These concepts can be utilized to spark analysis and writing tasks. You may have college students analysis life in regards to the locations depicted within the historic maps. You may even have college students try to write some historic fiction primarily based on the maps.

One other use for these historic maps is to overlay them on present imagery. That may be achieved in Google Earth. Within the following video I reveal how that works.