The Civil War was an entirely novel experience in American life and novel demands on cartography were called for in order to capture the event. The staff of the U.S. Coast Survey re-purposed many traditional aids to navigation and created many new ones to assist mariners and to help determine strategic aspects of locations. As the war progressed, they also re-defined the coast in military-political terms, mapping the shifting boundaries between Union and Rebel domains—in an exercise never attempted before, or after, the war. Adrienne Lundgren, senior photographic conservator at the Library of Congress, will present “Shedding a Little Light: Early Photographic Techniques Used to Reproduce Maps.
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