LSU Cartographic Information Center

04/11/2022

Provided the scan of the OSS map appearing at 5:30 in the video from a personal copy made at the National Archives.

This award-winning documentary tells the story of American and Allied special forces whose daring exploits changed the course of World War II. Learn more at https://www.ossandthebattleforfrance.co.

03/15/2022

The Cartographic Information Center provided scans of US Army World War Two era topographic maps of France to Mary Lee Eggert cartographer who used them as a basis for the maps in the book.

02/15/2022

Soviet ethnic map of Ukraine, 1966 - east portion

02/15/2022

Soviet ethnic map of Ukraine, 1966 - west portion

02/15/2022

German ethnic map of Ukraine, 1938

07/02/2021

CIC aerial photographs used in NYT video. They asked for permission but didn't list the CIC in the credits.

The River Road African American Museum founders were featured in the New York Times', "Searching for the Lost Graves of Louisiana’s Enslaved People" article....

05/29/2019

US Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans District Atchafalaya River Flood Inundation Map

01/09/2019

The Cartographic Information Center added the 2017-2018 edition US Topo GeoPDFs for the United States - 43,584 files. This includes the 2018 editions for Louisiana.

11/09/2018

Additional LSU CIC input on the Stanford University Digital Library:

John Anderson, Louisiana State University Librarian, has identified the provenance of six maps from the collection. The information was gleaned from the original Request Records that now reside at the National Archives. The record entries are not always complete but oftentimes list a Senior Cartogra...

11/08/2018

OSS Maps on Stanford University Digital Library

The Office of Strategic Services was created during World War II in order to gather intelligence in Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Thousands of maps were made to order and later distributed to libraries across the United States. These maps were either individually produced or were part of reports.....

06/06/2018

OSS Map 2995 dated January 14, 1944 shows the planned Normandy invasion area from the forced perspective of looking from the south coast of England towards Normandy. The map was created by photographing a portion of a large 3-D relief model.

05/09/2018

USGS Volcano Hazard Maps

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/multimedia_maps.html