We're celebrating America’s 250th birthday this summer, but did you know it's been more than twice that long since the first document on which the name "America" appears was published? The Library has the only surviving copy of the 1507 Waldseemüller map.
Explore it. ⬇️
![Operating a hand drill at North American Aviation, Inc., [a] woman is working in the control surface department assembling a section of the leading edge for the horizontal stabilizer of a plane, Inglewood, Calif. Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Oct 1942.](/makepkg/implementing-https-pbs.twimg.com/media/HLq95fbW8AAMhkv.jpg)
![This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee "Vengeance" dive bombers. Alfred T. Palmer, photographer. Feb. 1943.](/makepkg/implementing-https-pbs.twimg.com/media/HLq95gTWYAAM3ot.jpg)
