British Library 'Online
Gallery' (containing up to 5,000 images of cartographic relevance, out of an estimated final total of 100,000 - but see the
Contents page for regional map samples and related subjects, such as topographical views; a search [October 2014] for 'map' produced 1,990 hits); see also Maps: Scanned collections online:
Caribbean Views
Crace Collection of London plans (1,200 images)
Deptford Plans and
Drawings (127 images)
Goad fire
insurance plans of the British Isles
Kensington Turnpike
Trust drawings (30 images)
King George III Topographical
Collection (about 3,000 images - search Here for 'George III
maps' and filter by 'maps', or 'images' or 'books' for prints & drawings (even add a place, artist, or medium))
Ordnance Surveyors' Drawings
(1780s-1840s) (351 sheets)
The Unveiling of
Britain, 800-1600 (815 maps and views)
Wikimedia Commons has uploaded a
'Set of Maps' including 22,622 images (at 4 July 2019), arranged in 200 files. See the Maps and views blog, April 2020, for lists of "where to find free-to-access digitised British
Library maps".
The ongoing Georeferencer project invites participants to
identify locations on hundreds of selected early maps, covering all parts of the globe; these can be accessed by
regional lists, an interactive map or the abbreviated title of over 2,700 maps currently available for location fixing (November 2013), covering Goad fire insurance plans
of British and Irish towns, maps of the American Civil War, and military maps of World War I.
See also the following:
Flickr. 'The
British Library's Photostream' (421 maps, 'found by the community from the Mechanical Curator Collection ... taken
from the pages of 17th, 18th and 19th century books from the Library’s collections, digitised by Microsoft', with the
catalogue description alongside; to see a list of image sizes (up to fairly high res.) scroll down the page and then
click on the row of three dots at the extreme right) {January, 2014}
'Found: more maps than we’d reckoned' (about the 50,000 maps identified from among the 1 million
plus images in the public domain - Kimberly Kowal on the British Library, Maps and views blog, 17 February 2015) {April, 2015}
David Rumsey collection (at October 2023),
126,762 high res., zoomable, 'maps and related images' - many 19th century America but with an increasing number of
general atlases (on which see the separate listing of
Atlases, searchable by: Country, State, Publication Author, Keywords, Data field [including Date or date range]). He is
distributing, without charge, an advanced Java client software ('Insight'), to help deliver better images and high quality
print-outs from them. You will, though, need to set aside 20-30 minutes to download the software (assuming you have a standard
56K modem), if you choose that route rather than simply using your browser. In December 2001, a new GIS Browser was added,
allowing 'integration and interaction of historical maps with current geospatial data and other historical maps' [this will be
available for various US cities and specified themes, see the Two dimensional GIS browser]. In November 2006, 16 maps from the Rumsey Collection were added to <
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/old-world-meets-new-on-google-earth.html > Google Earth . Note from Philip
Hoehn: 'To view the maps, download the latest version of Google Earth (PC and Mac versions), then go to Layers/Featured
Content/Rumsey Historical Maps. To enable transparency of the historic map layers, click on the Rumsey Historical Maps folder
when viewing a map and a slider bar will appear that will adjust transparency for comparison of old and new maps images.
Additional maps will be added in the coming months'. In February 2008,120 maps were placed on the social site Second Life, see
here for links to articles on this. The Google
Maps Rumsey Historical Maps site contains 'over 120 historical maps', accessible via an interactive index. On these see also the explanatory note.
In October 2023 a new feature was introduced: the ability to search the Collection ‘by Text on Maps’, which has 100 million
words indexed on 57,000 maps. On this see the ‘About
Text on Maps Help Guide’.
Direct access to the 1,075 manuscript maps in the collection was provided in August 2023.
In February 2023 the David Rumsey online image database exceeded 120,000 items. This was celebrated with a large selection of
additions over the past five years that can be seen Here.
See an article by Adam Straker, 30 August 2022: This collection of over 100,000 historical maps can be downloaded in HD… and
viewed overlaid on current maps.
On 5 March 2022 an announcement was made that a "New collaboration between Rumsey Map Collection and Machines Reading Maps.
mapKurator will scan text in 60,000 georeferenced Rumsey maps. The data generated will make the Rumsey Map Collection the
first large digitized map collection in the world to be fully searchable via text."
In 2020 it was announced that highlights from lists of future additions would be issued on a yearly basis. Those for
2016 were the first to be treated in this way.
In March 2017 a new version of Georeferencer v4 was launched. For geographical
searching use MapRank Search (Klokan Technologies).
The website was entirely redesigned and updated in November 2009, as described on the new Rumsey Blog.
There is an online database catalogue of "for all the atlases, series of maps, individual maps,
globes, and other items in the collection, essentially the containers of the many maps in the
collection", as well as a separate listing of the online maps, and a third pdf combining the two. For
links to those and sample sheets see
Rumsey Map Catalogs.
In February 2009, it was announced that the entire collection of original maps and atlases would be
donated, gradually, to Stanford University. This will include the digital copies of an eventual target of
50,000 images. The University's Image Gallery already offers online access to
5,894 images from that collection. They can be enlarged to high res. and then panned.
From May 2007 it is possible 'to browse the entire collection by what, where, who, and when. All terms
used in the catalog descriptions are now hot links to results sets. This provides an effective alternative
or companion to searching the collection.' You can also use the Directory to browse by subject, area, author
and date [click on the link for an individual list, at the top, to alphabetise it]. For another route in see
here.
For further
information, see Recent additions; his explanatory pages: 'About the technology'
and 'Printing from the
collection';
'This is a Real Quest for Maps' by
Kendra Mayfield (Wired News, 7 March 2002); 'More Than
Digital Copies: Maps That Interpret Maps' (January 2022); or, if you want more depth, his March 2001 paper, 'Historical
Map Collection Web Site', at the
'Museums and the Web' conference; 'Historical Maps in
GIS' (an 18-page pdf chapter by David Rumsey and Meredith Williams, from Anne Kelly Knowles (ed.) Past Time, Past
Place: GIS for History (ESRI, 2002);
'Tales from the vault: historical maps online' (Common-Place, vol. 3, no. 4, July 2003); Historical
Maps Online (Coordinates, January 2005), with another version, dated 06/02/05, on the O'Reilly Network; From Lewis and Clark to Landsat:
Digital maps marry past and present by Wade Roush for Technology Review, July 2005; and the 2004 book by David
Rumsey and Edith M. Punt, Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed. See, a brief review by Joseph S. Wood for History Matters and another,
by Pat Toscano, for The American Surveyor. Machine
Readable Cataloging (MARC) records are available - contact: Phil Hoehn, Librarian, David Rumsey Collection. Email:
philhoehn(at) juno.com [NB replace (at) with @].
The Rumsey collection can also be accessed as part of the multi-collection Visual Collections site -
select ‘Cartography’, and, from May 2013, via the Digital Public Library of America.
See the 14 minute youtube video, 'David Rumsey Map
Center: Inside One of the World's Biggest Map Collections' (16 April 2019)
In March 2002, David Rumsey (Cartography Associates) signed an agreement with the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) to provide cartographic images for educational use from Fall
2002. In 2002, The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection won the prestigious Webby Award for the best 'technical
achievement' Web site.
Top of page
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: 'MAP
COLLECTIONS: 1500-[current year]'
[A note on the updating of altered and deleted links. The map content of the Library of Congress's website is wide-ranging
and of great value. Unfortunately, it is hard to keep track of the frequent and widespread changes to the map
pages, particularly as the old URL is not automatically pointed to the new one.
During 2017, there has been a concerted effort to deal with dead and peripatetic links across the whole 'Map History' site.
Inevitably, with only partial success. LC has, however, provided a useful LIST of pages that have been 'migrated to new
presentations', and this includes a number relating to maps. So, if you hit a dead end, try that index.]
The LC 'American Memory' project - a collection of 12,000 high res.
zoomable MrSID images [as at December 2007, but other pages (listed below) are apparently not included in that total and at
December 2013 a total of 42,336 maps had been added - however, in July 2015 the Results page cited 14,495 items only]. In late 2016, the figure of scanned maps from the 'Division’s
Rare Vault Scanning Project of United States Maps Published Prior to 1923' totalled 57,674 maps. It is not clear how that
relates to the earlier totals, and whether all are available online.
"The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created
from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection". To restrict an
American Memory search to maps, use this LINK.
'Free to Use and Reuse' sets have been made available, e.g. for Discovery and Exploration, and Maps of cities {August 2021}.
You can also search specifically for Manuscript Maps (descriptions and images of 904 items){June, 2017}
The main and subsidiary subject sections are listed below, and repeated (in more detail) on the appropriate page in the Web Images section. 'Special Presentations and other map-related pages' (listed further below) includes some
groupings that are not formally part of 'American Memory' (on which see Searching "Map Collections"). For other potentially
relevant parts of the LC site, see Global Gateway:
World Culture & Resources (for links to Collaborative (and Individual) Digital Libraries, Featured Presentations and
International Exhibitions), and Portals to the World:
Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (accessible via country name). All images carry at least a brief
description, and most are accompanied by historial and explanatory texts.
See the introductory texts: 'Zoom into
Maps' ('Maps help us make sense of our world'; 'Analyzing a Map'; 'What can be learned from historic maps?')
accompanying the Library of Congress's 'American Memory' site, illustrated with high res. MrSID images. In July
2009, LC released its new Teacher Resources module for the
American Memory Project. This provides lesson plans and guidance on interpreting original sources. See also ’Teacher’s
Guide: Analyzing Maps’ (seen June 2017). In 2023, it was noticed that the Library had made 1,807 works available to
the World Digital
Library.
LC is adding material all the time, on various of its sites. To keep track of recent additions you can consult
the alphabetical list of New Maps
This Month. Otherwise, consult the
Guides to the Collections: Cartobibliographies and Finding Aids; the full Exhibits listing; and The Learning Page:
Exploration and Explorers. Be aware that some pages exist at more than one URL, and that URLs regularly change.
The LC Photoduplication service provides printed copies and TIFF files of
the images, see: How to Order
Reproductions.
"Collection Connections". Several of the entries immediately following have a link to a
specially devised group of Collection Connections pages, arranged under the headings: U.S.
History, Critical Thinking, and Arts & Humanities. These "provide activity ideas for using the
online collections to develop critical thinking skills. Part of The Learning Page, Collection
Connections feature teacher created lesson plans based on online primary resources at the
Library of Congress". See the general 'Map Collections of the Library of Congress' Collection Connections]
"The Digital Reference Team (DRT) conducts a free, one-hour orientation monthly, on the second Wednesday at 11 a.m.-noon, Eastern
time, via Web conference. Throughout the program, DRT staff provide opportunities to ask questions, learn strategies for
online access of the materials, and sample the collections and resources provided to facilitate your research. To learn more and
register for the Orientation, click here.
Confirmation will be sent via email. Each session is limited to fifteen people, on a first-come, first-served basis" [January
2008].
'Collections with Maps'. First noticed in November 2015,
this provides access to 17 different thematic categories, covering 15,000 maps. There is considerable overlap with the
entries in the lists that follow.
Map Collections 1500-[present]
Cities
and towns (2,962 items) - includes:
Panoramic Maps 1847-1929
(1,492 items; see also a brief review by Paula Petrik for History
Matters) [see Collection
Connections]
Additional Cities and Towns Cartographic Items
Conservation and
environment - includes:
Mapping the National Parks Collection (173 items) [see
Collection Connections; and also Exploring the National Parks in the Geography and Map Division - Tim St. Onge, for the
Library of Congress maps blog, 10 August 2016]
Additional Conservation and Environment Cartographic Items
Cultural
Landscapes - includes:
Liberia. American
Colonization Society Collection. Maps of Liberia 1830-1870 (29 items) [see also History of Liberia: A Time Line and Collection
Connections]
Additional Cultural Landscapes Cartographic Items
Discovery
and Exploration (169 items) - includes:
Discovery and Exploration Cartographic Items [see The
Learning Page, and Zoom into Maps: Exploration and Discovery (with nine MrSID maps)]
General
Maps (3,113 items) - includes:
Places in the News
Additional General Cartographic Items
Military
Battles and Campaigns (4,182 items)- includes:
The
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the
West Indies, 1750-1789 (maps to be added monthly) [see Collection Connections]
Civil War
Maps (2,304 maps and 76 atlases and sketchbooks - including those from the Virginia
Historical Society and the Library of Virginia) [see Collection Connections]
Rochambeau
Collection (high res. images of 66 MS and printed maps, and a MS atlas)
Additional Military Battles and Campaigns
Cartographic Items
see also The
Hotchkiss Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps (348 items)
Transportation
and Communication - (865 items) includes:
Railroad
Maps 1828-1900 [635 items; see also Collection Connections]
Additional Transportation and Communication Cartographic Items
'General index (by both subject and first word of title) including Special Presentations' and other
map-related pages
[Some of these elements do not form part of 'American Memory, and are apparently not
included in the general searches listed at the head of this LC entry]:
'1492: An Ongoing Voyage' (online exhibition)
Afghanistan. 'A Selection of Historical Maps of Afghanistan' (six MrSID images - Cynthia Cook, 2004)
'The African-American Mosaic: African-
American Culture and History' (online exhibition)
'African
American Odyssey' (about 10 maps relating to West Africa and the US -
select 'Object List', then search [ctrl+F] for: map)
Agnese
(MrSID images of the portolan atlas of nine charts and a world map by Battista Agnese, 1544)
Alaska. 'Meeting of
Frontiers: Digital Collections' (select from the various links under 'Maps' for scans from US and Russian
collections, dealing with Alaska and Siberia respectively; in English and Russian)
America. 'The
1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez'
America.
'The Culture and History of the Americas: The Jay Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress'
(leading to the exhibits page, with nine medium res. maps [May 2005])
America. 'Exploring the Early Americas' (illustrated with a few maps - Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress exhibition, 2007-ongoing)
The
American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the
West Indies, 1750-1789 (1,261 items)
'American Treasures' (an indefinite, but changing,
selection of enlargeable high res. images, including some maps; see also here)
'American Women: A
Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the
United States' leading to a note on the Geography and Map
Division
'The Atlantic
World: America and the Netherlands/De Atlantische Wereld: Amerika en Nederland' (a
search on 'map' produced descriptions (in English or Dutch) of 19 maps, accompanied by high res. MrSID images - the Library of Congress and the National Library of the
Netherlands)
Brazil/America. 'United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures' (in English and Portuguese, with 59 high res. MrSID maps)
Britain/America. 'John Bull and Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations'
(for selected maps, in medium res., see the Object
Checklist, e.g. under 'Exploration and Settlement' - Library of
Congress and British Library)
Cassini. 'Carte de France / levée par ordre du
roy' (all 182 sheets, enlargeable to high res.)
'Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: a Cartographic Perspective'
Celestial. 'Explaining
and Ordering. The Heavens. Views of the Universe' (online exhibition)
Census. 'National
Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (1870, 1880, 1890, 1970)'
China. 'Herold J. Wiens Collection' (264 items, some
cartographic, showing all or part of China during the period of World War II; see also finding aid)
Civil War
Maps (and see above under 'Military and Campaigns')
'Civil
War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society' (searching by
keyword and entering 'map' leads to 10 enlargeable, high res.
images)
Collaborative Digital Libraries ("bilingual, multimedia digital libraries, built with partners round the world", part of the LC's 'Global Gateway' - the individual elements are included separately in this list)
'Color image map : [ports of
entry, United States-Mexican border] / produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Department of the Treasury,
U.S. Customs Service' (high res. images of 6 sheets of the 300+ series, 1979-, with the remainder to follow)
'The Culture and History of the Americas: The Jay Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress'
(leading to the exhibits page, with nine medium res. maps [May 2005])
Discovery and exploration - see above under that heading
Drake. ‘The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake’ (including some maps and views, and linked to Sir Francis Drake: A
Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus, in turn linking to the Catalogue
of the Kraus Collection (with a section ‘Maps and Views’). See also Drake's West Indian Voyage 1588-1589 'Collection Connection'
Exhibitions. See the full listing of online exhibits, and also Guides to the Collections: Cartobibliographies and Finding Aids for details of others, which include a few maps, not listed here
'Exploring the Early Americas' (illustrated with a few maps - Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress exhibition, 2007-ongoing)
'Fire Insurance Maps' (an
online checklist of over 25,000 map sheets [as at May 2017] produced by the Sanborn Map Company). See also 'Learning Beyond the Original Purpose with Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps' (by Cheryl Lederle, 28 November 2017)
'The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820'
(18 maps, mostly of Kentucky)
Florida.
'Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934'
(search maps for 47 maps and related documents)
France/America. 'France in America' (in English and French, with 155 high res.
images, including those from the Revolutionary War Rochambeau Map
Collection). [71 items; see also a version in French here]
France. Cassini. 'Carte de France / levée par ordre du
roy' (all 182 sheets, enlargeable to high res.)
‘From
the Home Front and the Front Lines’ (a small selection of WWII military and aviation maps,
including one from Vietnam)
'General
Atlases' [Abraham Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Battista
Agnese (1544), Geographical Fun]
'Geographical Fun Atlas (1868)' (by 'Aleph')
'Geography and
Maps: an Illustrated Guide' (or
go straight to the
Concordance of Images)
'George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker'
Gutiérrez. 'The
1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez'
'Herold J. Wiens Collection'
(264 items, some cartographic, showing all or part of China during the period of World War II; see also finding aid)
'The
Hispanic and Portuguese World. Encounters in America' (seven low res. maps in this
'illustrated guide')
The
Hotchkiss Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps (high res. images of the 341 sketchbooks,
manuscripts, and annotated printed maps) [see Collection Connections]
'Indian Land Cessions in the U.S.
(1784-1894)' (67 MrSID state maps, 1897)
'In the Beginning Was the Word: The Russian Church and Native Alaskan Cultures' (online exhibition)
'Islamic Manuscripts from Mali: Timbuktu in Space and Time - Maps' (11 maps, enlargeable to
high res. via JPEG2000, 1590-1970)
Jefferson. 'Thomas
Jefferson' (see the Object list for seven low res. maps, 2000)
'John Bull & Uncle Sam: Four Centuries of British-American Relations' (online exhibition)
Kentucky. 'The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820'
(18 maps, mostly of Kentucky)
‘The Kraus Collection of Sir Francis Drake’ (including some maps and views, and linked to Sir Francis Drake: A
Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus, in turn linking to the Catalogue
of the Kraus Collection (with a section ‘Maps and Views’)
'Language of
the Land: Journeys into Literary America' (LC exhibition, 2000, by
Martha Hopkins and Michael Buscher)
Lewis & Clark. 'Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis &
Clark and the Revealing of America' (several illustrated texts and an Object Checklist, with links to
medium res. images of the items; see also 'Teachers. The Lewis and Clark Expedition' (a Learning Page Activity, and the press release - Library of Congress exhibition,
2003)
Liberia - see above under 'Cultural Landscapes'
Literary Maps. 'Language of
the Land: Journeys into Literary America' (LC exhibition, 2000, by
Martha Hopkins and Michael Buscher)
'Los Angeles Mapped'
(23 maps, enlargeable to high res. via JPEG2000, with commentary - LC exhibit at the Ira
Gershwin Gallery, Los Angeles, 2006-07)
'Louisiana: European Explorations
and the Louisiana Purchase' (70 maps enlargeable to high res., with an accompanying 118-page PDF essay by Michael Klein)
'The
Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900
in the Collections of the Library of Congress' by John R. Hébert and
Anthony P. Mullan (descriptions of 1,011 maps, selectively illustrated with high res. MrSID images)
'Macau: a Selection of Cartographic Images' (16 enlargeable high res. images, 1655-1991)
Mali.
'Islamic Manuscripts from Mali: Timbuktu in Space and Time - Maps' (11 maps, enlargeable to
high res. via JPEG2000, 1590-1970)
'Maps in our
lives' (mostly modern material but including surveys of George Washington's farm through
time, 2006)
'Meeting of Frontiers (Russia and the United States) (Global Gateway)'
Morse. 'Samuel F. B.
Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919'
'National Atlases:
Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (1870, 1880, 1890, 1970)'
National Parks. Mapping the
National Parks Collection (and see above under 'Conservation and Environment')
Netherlands/America.'The Atlantic
World: America and the Netherlands/De Atlantische Wereld: Amerika en Nederland' (a
search on 'map' produced descriptions (in English or Dutch) of 19 maps, accompanied by high res. MrSID images - the Library of Congress and the National Library of the
Netherlands)
'Oregon Department of Transportation
City Maps' (finding aid)
Ortelius:
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (53 maps, 1570) (MrSID images)
'Panoramic Maps 1847-1929' (and see above under 'Cities and Towns')
Portugal.
'Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: a Cartographic Perspective'
Portugal. 'The Portuguese
in the United States' (consult the Subject Index for 19
low res. maps)
Portugal. 'The
Portuguese Role in Exploring and Mapping the New World' (consult the Subject Index for 19
low res. maps)
Railroad Maps 1828-1900 (and see above under 'Transportation and Communication')
'Reclaiming the Everglades:
South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934' (search maps for 47 maps and related documents)
'Religion and the Founding of the American Republic' (online exhibition)
'Rivers, Edens, Empires:
Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America' (several illustrated texts and an Object
Checklist, with links to medium res. images of the items; see also 'Fill Up the
Canvas...Rivers of Words: Exploring with Lewis and Clark' (a Learning Page Activity); Community
Center; and the press
release - Library of Congress exhibition, 2003)
Rochambeau Collection
(high res. images of 66 MS and printed maps, and a MS atlas) [see Collection Connections]
'Samuel F. B.
Morse Papers at the Library of Congress, 1793-1919' (including four
MrSID maps)
Selections
from the Geography and Map Division (118 MrSID images)
'Selections from the LC Luso-Hispanic Map collection. Selecciones Luso-Hispánicas
de la Colección de Mapas' (MrSID images)
Siberia. 'Meeting of
Frontiers: Digital Collections' (select from the various links under 'Maps' for scans from US and Russian
collections, dealing with Alaska and Siberia respectively; in English and Russian)
'Spain, the
United States & the American Frontier - Historias Paralelas' (in English and Spanish), see also
the Sitemap
/ Mapa del Sitio
[a collaboration between LC and collections in Spain - not formally part
of the 'American Memory' project but overlapping with it]
Spanish-American War. 'The World of 1898: the
Spanish-American War' (clicking on 'Maps' leads to selections for Cuba, the
Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and images from the
Library of Congress 'American Memory Collection')
Statistical. 'National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (1870, 1880, 1890,
1970)' - see also
Statistical Atlases
'Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation' (online exhibition)
'Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape
in Southern West Virginia' (see
'Historical Maps of the Study Area' for images of five MrSID maps, 1774-1913)
'Thomas
Jefferson' (see the Object list for seven low res. maps, 2000)
Treasures. 'American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Reason Gallery B: Mapping & Recording' (includes 13 medium res. maps)
Treasures. 'World Treasures of
the Library of Congress' (about 24 medium res. images of cartographic items)
U.S.-Mexican border. 'Color image map : [ports of
entry, United States-Mexican border] / produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Department of the Treasury,
U.S. Customs Service' (high res. images of 6 sheets of the 300+ series, 1979-, with the remainder to follow)
Virginia. 'Early
Virginia Maps' (four high res. MrSID maps, illustrating Early Virginia Religious
Petitions)
Waldseemüller: Map of the World
(1507) [see Collection Connections]
Washington, D.C. (high res. JPEG2000 scans of real estate plans, 1903-21)
Washington.
'George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker'
'The World of 1898: the
Spanish-American War' (clicking on 'Maps' leads to selections for Cuba, the
Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and images from the
Library of Congress 'American Memory Collection')
'The World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings'
WWII. ‘From
the Home Front and the Front Lines’ (a small selection of WWII military and aviation maps,
including one from Vietnam)
'World War II Military Situation Maps 1944-1945' (423 high res. MrSID
maps, and 115 reports, giving daily details on the military campaigns in Western Europe from D-Day to July 1945)
[see
Collection Connections]
