Information in the Image Catalog can be sorted by entering information in any combination of the five fields: Keyword, Year, State or Region, Map type, or by Chart Number.
Information can be entered in the Keyword, Year and Chart Number fields or selected form dropdown lists in the State and Type fields. Click on the "Submit Query" button when all desired fields have been filled out. Records containing all of the entered values will be returned. For example, if keyword = River, Date = 1980 and Type = Nautical Chart, all records containing the only the word "River" in the title and a date of 1980 and a map type of Nautical Chart will be returned. Nautical indexs or images from 1981 with "River" in the title would not be returned by this search. Searches will return records containing the exact value as well as records containing the entered value anywhere in the record set, for example if "Bay" is entered as a keyword, the search will return all records with "Bay" in the Title including Tampa Bay, Shuyak Strait and BlueFox Bay, Maalaea Bay, etc. The Search is non case sensitive. Similarly if the value of 18 is entered in the Year box, records from the 1800's and 1918 will be returned.
NOTE: You must click the "Submit Query" button to preform a search, hitting enter will clear the query! If no information is entered into the form and the "Submit Query" buttom is clicked, all records (over 19,000) will be returned.
Upon searching, a table will be returned containing all records matching the search criteria entered. Users can then view the images by clicking in the view column, or download the images by clicking in the download column. Clicking in the view column will open up a new window in which users can zoom in or out and pan through the image.
For more information on viewing and downloading the images see the Historical Map and Chart Project Status page