LibGuides: Geography: Cartography and the History of Maps

Cartography and the History of Maps

16th - Early 20th Century Maps of Africa
American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
Atlas of Canada
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (Newberry Library)
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States ( 1932 )
Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection
Cartographica Extraordinaire
Charting North America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection and Others
Charting the Nation: Maps of Scotland, 1550 - 1740
Civil War Maps
Color Landform Atlas of the United States - This is Version 2 of this site. The homepage consists of links to each of the 50 states, to US maps, to background information about those maps, to an elevation key for the relief maps, to Web sites that have used Sterner's maps, and to Web awards the site has won.
The Cosmos in Miniature: the Remarkable Star Map of Simeon De Witt
Crace Collection of Maps of London
Dakin Fire Insurance Maps
David Rumsey Map Collection: 1979 California Water Atlas
David Rumsey Map Collection: Antique Atlases
Digital Atlas of Idaho
Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilizations
Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Electronic Map Library (California State- Northridge)
Federal Township Plats of Illinois
G. William Skinner Map Collection
Gilmer Civil War Maps Collection
Greater Toronto Area Digital Mapping Project
Harvard Map Collection: Digital Maps
Historic Topographic Maps of California
Historical Maps of Pennsylvania
IllinoisAtlas.com
Illinois State Highway Maps
Iowa Digital Map Collection
Kansas Sanborn Fire insurance Maps
Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Asian Cities
Late Nineteenth and Early 20th Century Urban Rail Transit Maps
Los Angeles Mapped
Map and Geographic Information Center: University of Connecticut
Map Collections: American Memory (Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress)
Mapping A New Nation: Abel Buell's Map of the United States, 1784
Mapping History
Maps in Our Lives
Maps of the Pimeria: Early Cartography of the Southwest
Maryland Map Collection
Massachusetts Historical Society: Massachusetts Maps
Military Campaign Maps
Milwaukee Neighborhoods: Photos and Maps, 1885-1992
National Cooperative Geologic Mapping
Nevada in Maps
New Jersey Historical Maps
19th Century Maps By Children
North Carolina Maps: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
NYCityMap
Old Sussex Mapped: Two Centuries of Sussex County Maps
Paleomap Project
Pennsylvania State University: Maps
Planning Maps of Midwestern Cities in the 1920s and 1930s
Realms of Gold : A Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
Rochambeau Map Collection
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1992
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, Kansas City 1895-1957
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: New Hampshire Towns, 1880s- 1940s
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Florida
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of South Carolina
Sanborn Maps for Missouri
Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project
Teaching Geologic Map Interpretation with Google Earth
Texas Historic Sites Atlas
The Burnham Plan Centennial
The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome
The Map of Early Modern London
The Mapas Project
The Rochambeau Map Collection
UC Atlas of Global Inequality
United Nations Environment Programme: Maps and Graphics
United States Digital Map Library
University of Chicago Library Map Collection
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory: Maps and Graphics
Vandermaelen Atlas Universel ( 1827 )
A View Of Britain Through TIme: Historical Maps
W.H. Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps (McGill University)
World War II Military Situation Maps
WPA Land Use Survey Maps for the City of Los Angeles, 1933-1939

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