The only
comprehensive listing of early map image sites. The
monthly additions are indicated thus, e.g. {March
2002} at the end of the
entry. Since the symbols { } are not used elsewhere, you can search on
those elements [enter Ctrl+F]; e.g. 2002} will find entries added
at any time in that year)
Please notify any corrections or additions to the editor, Tony
Campbell:
Make sure to consult its copyright statement
before using any of the images you find
+ 'American Treasures' (illustrating and describing 36 items (many of them maps)
- 2009-2010 exhibition at the Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
University of Southern Maine) {February, 2010}
America (high res. images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, University of
Georgia Libraries)
+ America
('American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Reason Gallery B.,
Mapping and Recording' - a selection of 13 medium res. maps)
'America, 1500-1800' ('a digital
collection ... to go with the book La mesure d'un continent and the exhibition Ils ont cartographié l'Amérique';
several hundred maps, enlargeable (after a pause) to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec)
{October, 2007}
The
Americas (39 slow-loading, medium res. images, 1550-1870)
{October, 2001}
'The Archive of Early American Images' (follow the access
instructions [memorising the login and password], then search in one of various ways; selecting
Subject: 'Geography, maps, city views and plans' produced 774 hits [at the launch in May
2005]; maximise the new window and then enlarge by stages to very high res.; providing
access to early and important maps from the major research library for early Americana; but a
slow-moving and awkward site - John Carter Brown Library) {May, 2005}
Discovery.
‘Columbus and the Idea of Cuba’ (a blog post by J.S. Tennant illustrated with MS maps from the early 16th century –
British Library American Collections blog, 30 July 2021) {August, 2021}
Discovery. 'Oldest
globe with New World discovered' ('A globe engraved on an ostrich egg, dated 1504, has emerged as perhaps the oldest
known globe to include the New World' - images in the Washington Post, 20 August 2013, relating to the article by
Stefaan Missinne, 'A newly discovered early sixteenth-century globe engraved on an ostrich egg: the earliest surviving
globe showing the New World', The Portolan: Journal of the Washington Map Society, 87 (Fall 2013): 8-24)
{August, 2013}
’A History of America in 100 Maps’ (15
sample [enlargeable] maps with captions, from Susan Schulten’s new book: University of Chicago Press and British
Library) {October, 2018}
John Carter Brown
Library. 'JCB Map Collection' (an important collection of 1,362 maps, enlargeable to high
res., in a chronological browsing list, focusing on the world and the Americas) {November, 2011}
'Kaarten van de Atlantic World' (61 high res. maps,
covering America, North America and sections of the eastern coast - National Archives, The
Hague) {December, 2012}
Kislak Collection (medium res. images of a world map and eight others relating to America, including the five by Baptista Boazio illustrating Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1589
- Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress {May, 2005}
+ 'Lewis and Clark: the Maps of Exploration 1507-1814' (a wide-ranging exhibition with
medium res. images of North America and its regions; see 'Novus Orbis: Images of the New World
1507-1669' - Special Collections Alderman Library, University of Virginia)
+ 'Map Talk: a Conversation with Maps at the JCB' (a broad-ranging exhibition
focussed on America, curated by Susan Danforth, illustrated with 44 maps (enlargeable to
high res.), arranged according to their original purpose and seen as 'subjective
statements' - exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, January-May 2010) {February,
2010}
+ 'Terra
Incognita: an online exhibition' (covering the Americas and the
Pacific, including medium res. maps and details, among them five from
Robert Morden's Geography Rectified, 1680 [click on the heading
'Maps'] - Alison Carrick, Washington University Libraries) {November,
2002}
'Treasures of the Americas' ( five early maps, enlargeable to medium res.
- Special Collections Department, University of Miami Libraries) {March, 2010}
'Western Hemisphere
Historical Maps' (41 [original not 'historical'] maps of all or part of America, enlargeable to high res. via
LizardTech ExpressView Plugin - Yale University Library) {November, 2007}
The 1562 Map of
America by Diego Gutierrez (John R. Hébert - Library of Congress,
Geography & Map Division - high res. MrSID image, with the ability
to zoom, enlarge and select details) [also available on the alternative site]
+ Exploring the Early Americas (illustrated with a few maps - Jay I. Kislak
Collection, Library of Congress exhibition, 2007) {February, 2010}
Gulf
Stream. 'Charting the Gulf Stream' (an illustrated note about the map produced by Benjamin Franklin and
Timothy Folger in 1768 - Carlyn Osborn, Library of Congress, 7 January 2016) {January, 2016}
+ ‘The World Before and After
Columbus’ (exhibition, illustrated with high res. scans, at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine,
October 1992) {November, 2017}