Geography: Web Resources

Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this site offers a selection of images dating from the mid-nineteenth century to modern times drawn from individual record groups within the Society's collection. The geographic emphasis is on the Middle East and Asia.

This site offers 6,100 photographs drawn from the American Geographical Society collection depicting 450 cities worldwide taken between 1942 and 1994. Major ancient urban centers such as Persepolis are also included.

A full text collection of travel accounts on the nations and regions of Latin America written between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A collection of over 100 digitized photographs , some taken at Yokohama immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake in the autumn of 1923 by an American traveler. The collection as a whole covers both the earthquake and the experience of travelling abroad in East Asia just after World War I.

John W. Reps (Cornell University) has compiled a bibliography of original source material in urban planning, primarily covering the 19th century. This wide-ranging site is a trove of information. Each bibliographic entry is annotated with a brief essay that includes a biography of the author and a discussion of the work's importance. Subjects covered include the principles, standards, and procedures for European, American, and Australian city planning.

- An up-front index lists 40 main topics, from air pollution to wetlands. Of these, oceanography, weather, climate, coastal studies, endangered species, the history of oceanic and atmospheric sciences, and wetlands are categories most relevant geography.