Thursday, January 21, 2010

old maps of Korea/chosen Kingdom

via koreaweb.ws on Jan. 20, 2010; announced by
Angie Cope, Senior Academic Librarian
American Geographical Society Library - UW Milwaukee Libraries
2311 E. Hartford Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 USA

AGS Library map: 1861 Territorial Map of the Great East online

view all 22 sheets, 1 index sheet and 1 composite map:
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,828

OTHER MAPS OF INTEREST

Haejwa Jondo or [A native map of Chosen] -
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,604

Whole map of Seoul, 2nd Book - http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,605

Yeojido [atlas of Korea from between 1823-1869] - 
http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agdm,705

Shannon McCune and George C. Foulk Photographs of Korea -
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.cfm
cf. http://old-koreaphotos.wikispaces.com

see also, Nov 20, 2009 symposium "Korean maps of the 19th Century"
http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/AGSL/korean_maps.cfm

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Academy for Korean Studies - online content

via the KoreanStudies e-list of January 12, 2010:

...the Academy of Korean Studies has started to distribute their wealth of premodern historical
data under a Creative Commons license. For one example, see: http://bit.ly/7OJHyu. Not all parts of the AKS website reflect this change yet...