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Shanghai Urban Space in Time
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| Library of Congress - Map Division | History and Background Maps and atlases were among the first items acquired when the Library of Congress was established in 1800. It was not until 1897, however, when the Library of Congress moved into its own building, that a separate Hall of Maps and Charts was created to house the growing collection of 47,000 maps and 1,200 atlases. The division now occupies an area of 90,000 square feet in the Library's James Madison Memorial Building. The area is specifically designed and constructed to accommodate a variety of cartographic collections, library functions, and a professional and technical staff of 38 persons. Annual additions to the Geography and Map Division's collections average 60,000-80,000 maps and 2,000 atlases. Because surveying and mapping are significant government functions and responsibilities, approximately 60 percent of the maps and 20 percent of the atlases are received from offical sources. Most private and commercial cartographic works published in the United States are acquired through Copyright or through purchase. Many rare and valuable maps and atlases in the collections have been presented to the division by generous and public-minded citizens. The Collections The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress provides cartographic and geographic information for all parts of the world to the Congress, Federal agencies, state and local governments, the scholarly community, and to the general public. It is the largest and most comprehensive cartographic collection in the world, numbering over 5.2 million maps, including 80,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, numerous globes and three-dimensional plastic relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including electronic. Among the earliest original maps in the collections are three manuscript portolan atlases and 19 portolan charts from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries drawn on vellum by Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish cartographers. The excellent collection of atlases dates from an 1482 printed edition of Claudius Ptolemy's Geography and includes representative volumes of all significant publishers of atlases for the last five centuries. The atlases cover individual continents, countries, cities, and other geographic regions, as well as the world ranging in scope from general to topical. Of particular interest to genealogists and local historians is a large collection of U.S. county and state maps and atlases published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Atlases published during the past four or five decades and covering national, regional, state, and provincial resources form another noteworthy reference group. The division has an excellent collection of manuscript and printed maps of colonial America, the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and the wars of the twentieth century. Supplementing these historical records are photo-reproductions of manuscript maps from various American and European archives. The Hummel and Warner collection inlcude rare manuscript and printed maps and atlases of China, Japan, and Korea from the seventeenth century. About 55 percent of the maps are individual sheets of large- and medium-scale map series and nautical and aeronautical charts published during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Official topographic, geologic, soil, mineral, and resource maps and nautical and aeronautical charts are available for most countries of the world. The collection of single maps embraces more than two million general and special subject maps of the world and its various political entities, divisions, and subdivisions, with maps of the Americas and countries of the Western Hemisphere predominating. North America, the United States, each of the 50 states, and the largest cities are especially well represented. Among the numerous county maps and city and town plans are some 700,000 large-scale Sanborn fire insurance maps, in bound and loose sheet volumes. The Sanborn Map Company was the dominant American publisher of fire insurance maps and atlases for over 100 years. Founded in 1867, the firm has issued and periodically updated detailed plans of 12,000 American cities and towns. Some areas are represented by as many as eight different editions. This collection constitutes an unrivaled cartographic and historic record of America's urban settlement and growth over more that a century. Location: 101 Independence Ave. SE Madison Bldg, Room LM B01 Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 | |
| Raymond Vibien Family Album | Private collection | |
| Public Record Office | The national archives of the United Kingdom. | |
| French General Consulate of Shanghai | The French diplomatic representation in Shanghai. In the era of the foreign settlements, the Consul General was the actual power-holder in the French Concession, above the elected municipal council. The French Concession lasted from 1949 to 1943. | |
| Nantes Diplomatic Archives | This is the repository for the archives from the French embassies and consulates throughout the world. It holds the archives of the Consulate general in Shanghai before 1949. | |
| Shanghai Municipal Archives | This is the main repository for archives in Shanghai. It is a modern facility located on the Bund. It holds almost all the archives of the previous foreign settlements, as well as those of the republican-era municipalities. The SMA also holds rich collections of archives of private companies and organizations. It is one of the most advanced and open archival repository in China. | |
| Institut d'Asie Orientale | IAO - Private collection | |
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| Christian Henriot | A series of pictures taken during the summer months of 1982 and in the mid-1990s. | |
| Bibliothèque nationale de France | The National Library of France. | |
| Shanghai tushuguan 上海圖書館 Shanghai Library | The Shanghai Library is a large, modern and multi-functional public library, covering a floor space of 83,000 square meters. The library consists of a main building and a support building. The main building consists of two towers and an annex. The two towers are 11 stories or 55.6 meters and 24 stories or 106 meters high, respectively. The library boasts a collection of 13.2 million volumes of books. There are altogether 3,036 seats in the reading rooms and in addition, there is an 842-seat conference hall, a 500-square-meter exhibition hall, and a 300-plus-seat seminar room equipped with mobile multi-channel simultaneous interpretation facilities. Brief History （from http://www.library.sh.cn/new-eng/) Shanghai is a metropolitan city with well-developed business and industry, and it is also a city that holds the leading place in China's arts, sciences and education. The city has a relatively short history, but its first library dated back as early as 150 years ago. In 1947, shortly after Shanghai opened its door to the world as a port city, the Library of the Xu Jiahui Catholic Church was founded. With a collection of 200,000 volumes in both Chinese and Western languages, it was the first library established in Shanghai that had certain features of a modern library. Shanghai East Library, the first library run by Chinese opened in 1925. In 1950, the Shanghai Cultural Heritage Managing Committee began a campaign to collect books and immediately received donations from many scholars and celebrities. In about one year, this collection amounted to more than 200,000 volumes, of which some were rare books. The committee also started to buy books from abroad. In 1952, by the time when Shanghai Library was founded, it had a collection of more than 700,000 volumes. In 1953, the Shanghai Cultural Bureau began to take charge of Shanghai Library, and in 1958, the Cultural Bureau decided to merge The Library of Historical Documents, The Shanghai Sciences and Technology Library, and the Shanghai Newspaper and Periodical Library into Shanghai Library. Shanghai Library has hence become the second largest comprehensive public library in China, on account of its collection, its services and the librarians' professional skills. When first established, Shanghai Library was located in the former "Racecourse Building", which had an area of 30,000 m2. There were altogether 150 library staff, serving the needs of the general readers as well as the industry, business and government organizations. The library also provided the Union Catalog of Chinese Books and interlibrary loan services, offering professional training to smaller libraries, and held various activities such as exhibitions, book discussions, seminars, etc. The library published many reference books, too. As a result, Shanghai Library has greatly helped the development of library profession in China and the scientific research in this field. With the rapidly increasing number of publications, the library acquisitions exceeded the capacity of the building in the 70s, which affected the shelving, and hence, the circulation. In 1983, the Shanghai Cultural Bureau began to make research and proposals for the construction of a new library building. In 1990, then Shanghai Mayor Zhu Rongji urged the leaders of Shanghai Library to focus their attention on the planning of the new library construction. With this great concern of the municipal government, the new building laid its first foundation stone on September 1, 1993. In 1995, Shanghai Library and Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS) merged together to serve the general public, the academia and the government with its combined facilities and resources. The new building opened to the public in the next year, and soon became a landmark of the city. It styles itself in the shape of pyramids with escalating cubic blocks, which symbolizes the solid foundation of cultural heritage and the endless efforts by human being in pursuit of knowledge. According to the statistics of early 2004, Shanghai Library boasts a collection of 49.98 million items, more than 160 million of which are in circulation. The library is open to the public throughout the year, and each day an average 8,000 readers visit the library. Shanghai Library is also the headquarter of Shanghai Central Libraries, a citywide library network in which the members are coordinating each other in acquisition, circulation, resource building and sharing, and staff training. This system consists of altogether 34 district and county public libraries, university libraries and special libraries (Y 2004 figure). Meanwhile, by carrying out inter-library loans with OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), the British Library and the Library of Congress of America, Shanghai Library is actively engaged itself in overseas cooperation, making the resources sharing across the boundaries of industries, regions and countries possible. Shanghai Library aims to deliver the knowledge that helps stimulate the wisdom and ignite the aspiration, through its excellent services and sincere cooperation. Shanghai Library is now trying its best towards the objective of becoming a "world-class city library". | |
| Earth Sciences and Map Library, University of California, Berkeley | The University of California at Berkeley holds one of the richest collection of historical maps of China and Japan. The collections are to be found mostly in the Earth Science Library. | |
| Donnelly Family - Collection of A P Banham (grandson) | Photographs taken mostly by Ivon Arthur Donnelly in Shanghai and along the Yangzi River in the 1908-1913 period. Ivon Arthur Donnelly was born in 1890. He is well known for his works on Chinese junks: 1. Chinese junks and other native craft, by Ivon A. Donnelly. [Shanghai, China] Kelly & Walsh [1925] 6 p. l., 3-142 p. incl. col. mounted front., illus., plates (part col. mounted) 27 cm. 2. Chinese junks, a book of drawings in black & white, [Shanghai] Kelly and Walsh limited [pref., 1920] 28 numb. l., 1 l. incl. 1 illus., 25 mounted pl. 22 cm. | |
| Ravensdale Collection | This is a private collection of photographs held by Mrs. Elizabeth Lillicrap. Presently it includes 57 pictures kindly made available for the "Virtual Shanghai" project. All these picture were taken by Mr. William Turner, greatgrandfather of Mrs. Lillicrap, except for those on which he appears himself. These pictures were taken between 1898 and 1901. | |
| Shanghai Seido Real Estate Consulting | Shanghai Seido Real Estate Consulting is Japanese company specializing in relocation and housing consulting based in China. |
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