---  G  ---

Garden and Forest
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/gardfor/gfhome.html

A joint project of the Library of Congress Preservation Reformatting Division, the University of Michigan Making of America project, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University has placed online a digitized version of the important periodical Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897), which covered park planning and the origins of urban planning in the U.S.A.
(30 Aug 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

Geography & Map Reading Room, (The Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/

Access to public domain maps digitized and posted on a regular basis by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. The online digitized maps are a small part of the inventory of "over 5 million maps, 72,000 atlases, 6,000 reference works, over 500 globes and globe gores, and numerous plastic relief models, and a large number of cartographic materials in other formats, including electronic."
(10 Sep 2004)

GeoNet Names Server (GNS)
http://earth-info.nima.mil/gns/html/index.html

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) database of geographic feature names. Information in this database has been used to prepare and publish the series of gazetteers approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (US BGN). Being your search at the Introduction to Geographic Names page.
(9 Feb 2004; 17 Nov 2004)

A Glimpse Into London's Early Sewers
http://www.swopnet.com/engr/londonsewers/londontext1.html

A journalistic narrative with some illustrations written by Mary Gayman for Cleanser Magazine. Comes in three parts, something that is not obvious from the index.
(28 Jul 2001)

Gotham Center for New York City History
http://www.gothamcenter.org/

A feature of the Institute of the City University of New York, the site contains up-to-the-minute historical news, interesting public e-forums, a large set of links, and a K-12 curriculum. Mike Wallace, the distinguished author, directs the Center.
(30 Jul 2002)

The Great Buildings Collection
http://www.GreatBuildings.com/

This site put together by Architecture Week documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links. Extremely well-indexed.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)

The Great Chicago Fire
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

The 1997 review of this site by Susan Williams is still valid and gives a good description of the website. Valuable teaching and research tool. Text by Carl Smith. Lots of photos and primary documents.
(28 Jul 2001)
Review of The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory website done for H-Urban in February, 1997 by Susan Williams, Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Table of Contents