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ID 330 SubmitterName Serbanuta, Claudia SubmitterEmail cserban2@uiuc.edu Name National Library of Estonia Digital Collections URL http://www.nlib.ee/17535 Creator National Library of Estonia Manager   Participating   Funder   Host   Description Digitized documents in the collection of the National Library Estonia Goal access Digital processes scanning Inception   Future plans   Collection    Title Book illustration URL http://www.nlib.ee/html/digi/rmt_ill/autorid.html Creator National Library of Estonia Description Original Book Illustrations in the National Library of Estonia Art Collection Subject focus illustrations, art Geographical focus Estonia Chronological focus 2000H Language of items   Size of collection 5000 illustration from 650 books Format of original items book Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items National Library of Estonia Format of surrogate items image/JPG Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection no medium Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted   Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans         Title Old city maps from the NLE Cartography Collection URL http://www.nlib.ee/39496 Creator National Library of Estonia Description "Since ancient times till today pictures of landscapes surrounding the town, buildings and local human types have been used as town map design elements; artistically designed indexes and, in modern times, also advertisements are often added." The collection presents map of cities Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu, Narva. Subject focus maps Geographical focus Estonia Chronological focus 1800H-1900H Language of items est Size of collection 25maps Format of original items map Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items National Library of Estonia Format of surrogate items image/JPG Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection no medium Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted   Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans         Title Old geographical maps from the NLE Cartography Collection URL http://www.nlib.ee/39761 Creator National Library of Estonia Description "In this portfolio a selection of maps in the Map Collection of the National Library of Estonian depicting Livonia from the second half of the 16th century to the second half of the 18th century have been reproduced. The period in the history of Livonia includes the Livonian War (1558–1583) in result of which the present Estonian territory was divided between Sweden, Denmark and Poland; Polish-Swedish wars (1600–1629) after which the whole Estonian territory fell under the Swedish reign; and the Great Northern War (1700–1721) which resulted in annexing Estonia to the Russian empire for two hundred years. Because of these alarming events both the cartographers from the countries fighting over the Estonian territory as well as in other parts of Europe took keen interest in portraying this area. Estonia was quite in detail represented in the atlases of these times, on a separate map or as a part of some foreign country (Sweden, Russia, Poland). The present selection includes the maps of Livonia and the Nordic co Subject focus maps Geographical focus Estonia Scandinavia Chronological focus 1600H-1800D Language of items eng Size of collection 39 maps Format of original items map Source type primary Identifier for original items   Location of original items National Library of Estonia Cartography Collection Format of surrogate items image/JPG Metadata/encoding scheme   Medium of collection no medium Web services   Access conditions/rights asserted   Made available   Frequency of additions   Future plans