American Continent

North America:-

• North America (general)
• Canada
• United States (general, people & themes)
• United States (states & regions)

Mexico, Central & South America and the West Indies

American Continent

• 'The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutierrez' (John R. Hébert - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• America (early maps) (facsimiles of about 25 articles on early nautical charts, the mapping of America, etc., by Ernest- Théodore Hamy; select 'Recherche' and enter 'hamy' under 'auteur', and choose TIFF or PDF format via 'Téléchargement de l'ouvrage' - from the Bibliothèque nationale de France's "Gallica") {December, 2003}
• America's west coast (full, searchable text (but not the charts), from the California Digital Library, of: Howse, Derek, and Norman J. W. Thrower, editors A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992). [The atlas is in the National Maritime Museum and the charts will be added 'soon' to their Charts Online) {March, 2004}
• 'Les Amériques, de la découverte à la cartographie de Martin Waldseemüller à Guillaume Delisle du 16e au 18e siècle' (a footnoted paper by Monique Pelletier given at the conference 'Les géographes redécouvrent les Amériques' (Saint-Dié des-Vosges, September-October 2006)) {February, 2007}
• ‘Around, Over, and Through the Americas’ (‘this essay and its maps have chosen to focus on three big ideas: Exploration, extraction and experience, which many maps from these places and this period presented to the men, women and children who moved in the hemisphere during Latin America’s first independent century’; illustrated essay by Jordana Dym for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Atlantic Ocean. 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}
• Atlantic Ocean. Gulf Stream. ‘The History of the Gulf Stream's Missing Chapter: John William Gerard De Brahm’ (by Louis De Vorsey - Phillips Map Society Occasional Paper 10, 2016) {January, 2017}
• Atlantic Ocean. 'The Gulf Stream' (by James C. Hobbs, accompanying the 2002 exhibition at the Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Libraries Division (Ft. Lauderdale)) {August, 2002}
• Atlantic Continent. ‘Hy-Brasil: The Supernatural Island ’ (an illustrated note by Cynthia Smith about the long-lived fictitious island to the west of Ireland; for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 3 June 2020) {October, 2023}
• Atlantic Ocean. 'One map, two purposes: Willem Blaeu's second 'West Indische paskaart' of 1630' (reissue of an illustrated article by Tony Campbell in The Map Collector 30 (March 1985) - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Atlantic Ocean. ‘Pepys Island as a Pacific stepping stone: the struggle to capture islands on early modern maps’ (Katherine Parker in British Society for the History of Science, 51:4 (2018): 659-77) {December, 2018}
• 'Baroque Era Cartography: Alternate Names for the Americas' (by Antonio Rios-Bustamante in Mapline 93 (Summer 2001), pp.6-8) {August, 2008}
• + 'The Bernardo Mendel Collection: an exhibit: a machine-readable transcription' (brief descriptions and illustrations of 104 early Americana titles - Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington) {November, 2005}
• Blathwayt. The Blathwayt Atlas (a highly important collection of 48 maps of the Americas, 1629-83, some in manuscript; the full catalogue entry is based on the work of Jeannette Black – John Carter Brown Library, Providence, R.I.) {August, 2017}
• Canals. ‘Los ingenieros militares y los canales en España y América durante el Setecientos’ (by Horacio Capel in: Biblio 3W. Revista Bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales 35 (June 1997)) {March, 2007}
• Cannibals. ‘From Alterity to Allegory: Depictions of Cannibalism on Early European Maps of the New World’ (by James Walker - Phillips Map Society Occasional Paper 9, 2015) {January, 2017}
• 'Carte geografiche d'America nelle raccolte della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana di Venezia (1492-1701)' (the list, covering all or part of the continent of America, includes both printed and manuscript maps - an undated note by Piero Falchetta) {March, 2010}
• 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles' [Introduction by Hossam Elkhadem, 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• Cartographica Helvetica: Fachzeitschrift für Kartengeschichte (a special issue with four articles, in German with English abstracts) {February, 2011}
• 'Cibola: A Tale of Estebanico, Coronodo, and the Seven Cities of Gold' (tracing a pre-columbian legend, now reflected in a New Mexico place-name - an illustrated note by Kevin Brown on the Geographicus blog, 28 September 2009) {September, 2009}
• 'Cosmografías americanas. La imagen de América en la cartografía europea de los siglos XVI y XVII' (a hyperlinked note on 16th & 17th century European cartography of the Americas, leading to other notes, which are separately listed on a links page - Memoria Chilena) {January, 2006}
• Discovery of America. 'Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map' (by Alida C. Metcalf, in: e-Perimetron, 7:1 (2012), pp. 36-44; about the map of c.1506 in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) {April, 2012}
• Discovery of America. ’Alessandro Zorzi’s sketch maps’ (a presentation at the Brussels Circle Map Afternoon (MAPAF) April 2017 by Luis A. Robles Macías, about a series of early 16th century notebooks relating to geographical discoveries in the New World, with a separate file for the PowerPoint) {May, 2017}
• Discovery of America. 'L'Amiral de la Mer Oceane. Cartes anciennes' (investigation, in French, into the maps of Waldseemüller and his contemporaries - part of the large Association "l'Amiral de la Mer Océane" site, best approached via its Carte du site) {September, 2006}
• Discovery of America. 'The Basle 1494 Columbus Letter' (by Matthew H. Edney, Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, November 2012 [revision of October 1996 text, revised September 2009] {September, 2015}
• Discovery of America. 'Christopher Columbus and Early European Exploration' ('a Guide to the Collections of the Humanities and Social Sciences Library', New York Public Library) {October, 2011}
• Discovery of America. ‘La ciencia y la técnica en el descubrimiento de América’ (including sections on ‘La geografía’ and ‘La cartografía’ - a long, footnoted, illustrated essay in Spanish by Julio Rey Pastor, in its Third Edition, Buenos Aires, Espasa Calpe, 1951 - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes) {March, 2005}
• Discovery of America. ‘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 of America. 'Cosmografías americanas' (five texts relating to the discovery and early mapping of America, available [in their entirety?] in very large pdf files, by Apian, Herrera y Tordesillas, Ortelius, Ptolemy and Waldseemüller - Memoria Chilena) {January, 2006}
• Discovery of America. ‘Juan de la Cosa’s Projection: A Fresh Analysis of the Earliest Preserved Map of the Americas’ (an illustrated article by Luis A. Robles Macias, Coordinates, Series A, no 9, May 2010) {March, 2019}
• Discovery of America. 'The Representation of the West Indies in Early Iberian Cartography' (a detailed comment by Luis A. Robles Macías, to the ISHMap List, 2 May 2015, in response to a statement in an article by Joaquim Alves Gaspar in Terrae Incognitae 47:1 (Spring 2015), p.21, that "no historical source mentions the determination of latitudes by astronomical methods along the northern coast of South America"; instead Robles Macias points out that "the first Decade of Martyr's De orbe novo supports the idea that latitudes were indeed astronomically determined by early Spanish explorers of America. In particular, the position of the equator was ascertained based on the visibility of the Pole Star") {April, 2015}
• Discovery of America. ‘El Segundo Viaje Colombino’ (includes Capítulo XVII: ‘Descubrimientos geográficos del segundo viaje colombino y su reflejo en la cartografía’; complete text in pdf, in sections, of the doctoral thesis by María Montserrat León Guerrero - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2002) {March, 2005}
• + Discovery of America. ‘The World Before and After Columbus’ (exhibition, at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, October 1992) {November, 2017}
• Discovery of America. Zeno. 'America before Columbus: the journey of Venetian brothers Zeno in 1380' ('This study seeks to reevaluate Zeno's reputation and his role in North Atlantic exploration history', Alberto Quartapelle, April 2024) {August, 2024}
• Discovery of America - see also People: Columbus; Piri Reis; Waldseemüller
• ’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}
• * Indigenous mapping. The History of Cartography. Volume 2, Book 3: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies (David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (eds), (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) - fully searchable series of pdf chapters, made available online in June 2011) {July, 2011}
• Indigenous mapping . ‘Celebrating Native American Cartography: The Catawba Deerskin Map’ (about the ‘Map of the several nations of Indians to the Northwest of South Carolina’, by Tim St. Onge, Library of Congress blog, 30 November 2016) {April, 2017}
• Indigenous cartography. ‘The Mysteries of a Rare, 18th-Century Native American Map’ (the Catawba Deerksin Map: ‘it may have been more about social and trade relationships than geography’ – Sarah Laskow, for Atlas Obscura, 5 June 2017) {June, 2017}
• 'Inventory of the Louis Charles Karpinski Collection, 1500-1799' (details of 835 maps relating to American history, copied by Karpinski (1878-1956) from various European collections - Huntington Library, San Marino, California) {November, 2005}
• 'Juan de la Cosa's Projection: A Fresh Analysis of the Earliest Preserved Map of the Americas' (by Luis A. Robles Macias in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. A, no.9 (28 May, 2010)) {May, 2010}
• 'Like no other: the 1562 Gutiérrez Map of America' (John Hébert and Richard Pflederer - Mercator's World 5:6, 2000) {November 2000}
• 'A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress' (the standard work by Philip Lee Phillips, 1901 - a searchable 'turning the pages' text from the Open Library [NB, for reasonable legibility you will need to enlarge the screen]) {May, 2009}
• '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 - this version is searchable by keyword) {February, 2001}
• ’Mapping America: 500 Years of Cartographic Depictions’ (texts introducing a selection of seven small scans from the exhibit at Vassar College Libraries, February-May 2007: Ronald D. Patkus, ‘Maps and Atlases Relating to America in the Vassar College Library’; Philippe Thibault, ‘Studying Historical Maps in the Vassar Classroom’; Mary Ann Cunningham, ‘Contemplating the Art of Cartography’) {February, 2007}
• 'A Million-Dollar Map. Seven Figures for Seven Letters: AMERICA' (Derek Hayes in Fine Books & Collections Magazine September/October 2005 - on the Waldseemüller globe gores and world map, both 1507) {November, 2005}
• 'The New World in Maps: The First Hundred Years' (commentary by John Day, 1988, on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #9) {April, 2006}
• Pacific (in general) see under Australia and Oceania
• 'Raisz’s History of American Cartography Timelines' (providing links, for educational purposes, to Raisz's 1937 timecharts: 'Surveys & official maps' and 'Private cartography' - John Krygier's 'Making Maps: DIY Cartography' blog) {September, 2007}
• * 'Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World' (by Mark Koch, from Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2/ Special Issue 3 (September, 1998))
• Spain. 'La Cartografia de la Península Ibèrica i la seva extensió al continent Americà' (the full text of the 279-page volume, from the 1991 lecture series given by Montserrat Galera, Rodolfo Núñez de las Cuevas, Maria Fernanda Alegria and Joþo Carlos Garcia, published by the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona, 1991. NB the file is large (40 MB) and will take time to download) {July, 2010}
• ‘Spanish-made Manuscript Maps and Spanish-influenced Printed Maps, 1493-1535’ (Compiled from “Parts 1 & 2” of Early Manuscript Maps of America and the World: 1492-1536 – Gregory C. McIntosh, 2014) {December, 2017}
• see also People: Columbus; Piri Reis; Waldseemüller

North America

North America (general)

• North America. '1759: Britain's Year of Victories' (exhibition curated by Brian Leigh Dunnigan at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, featuring a number of enlargeable maps) {June, 2015}
• North America. Addenda to Philip Burden, The Mapping of North America (addenda entries to the two-volume bibliography, 1996 & 2007) {June, 2008; latest issue April 2024}
• North America. American Panoramic Artists and Publishers (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• North America. Atlantic. 'Bibliographies in Atlantic History: The Uses of Cartography in Atlantic History' (bibliographies by Matthew Edney, Sara Gronim, Barbara Mundy, Sharon Rodgers and David Woodward, for the Atlantic History Seminar 1999) {September, 2003}
• North America. Blathwayt. ‘Reading the “Blathwayt Atlas” of Colonial North America’ (an analysis of the 48-map atlas of the later 18th century, by Mathew Edney for his Mappng as Process blog, 30 November 2021; the 48 maps are accessible on the John Carter Brown Library site) {December, 2021}
• North America. 'Cartes d'Amérique du Nord' [Part of: 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles', 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• * North America. Cartographic intention. ‘18th Century Maps of North America: Perception vs. Reality’ (illustrated note by Ed Redmond for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 10 June 2020) {August, 2020}
• + North America 'Charting an Empire: The Atlantic Neptune' (describing and illustrating the charting of the eastern seaboard of North America after 1763, by Des Barres and others - a two-part exhibition at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, May-November 2013) {December, 2013}
• North America. Des Barres. ‘The Atlantic Neptune: An Unparalleled Collection of British Nautical Charts’ (an illustrated note by Ed Redmond, Library of Congress Maps blog, 7 August 2020) {August, 2020}
• North America. Des Barres. 'Charting the Waters' ('Joseph F. W. Des Barres mapped North America’s northeastern coast as revolution loomed and then sailed back to England to publish his monumental marine atlas, Atlantic Neptune' - an illustrated article, with 'Further Reading', by Jeffrey S. Murray in Fine Books & Collections, June 2010) {July, 2010}
• North America. Des Barres. 'Margins for errors: manuscript notations in The Atlantic Neptune' (J Victor Owen - Mercator's World 5:4, 2000)
• North America. 'Explorers, Surveyors and Mappers' (notes on the explorations and mapping of David Thompson and Alexander Mackenzie by Mark Cheves in the American Surveyor 29 May 2007, with a link to the full illustrated article in pdf form) {May, 2007}
• + North America. Exploring the West from Monticello: a perspective in maps from Columbus to Lewis and Clark (Guy Meriwether Benson, William Irwin and Heather Moore, 1995)
• North America. Faden's Ameri[c]an Atlas (texts and a Bibliography accompanying scans of 19 of William Faden's collection of 33 maps and battle plans of the Revolutionary War, 1759-77, namely Introduction by Lauren Coats, and three essays by Joel Kovarsky: 'What is an Atlas?', 'William Faden (1749-1836)' and 'The North American Atlas: Mapping the American Revolutionary War' - Lehigh University Digital Library, Bethlehem, PA) {November, 2010}
• + North America. Fortifications. 'The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th-Century America' (online version of the exhibition (October 2012-February 2013) at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan) {March, 2013}
• North America. Fortifications. 'The Beautiful Geometry of 18th-Century Forts, Built by Britain in the American Colonies' (brief notes with illustrations of six forts, good images from the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan - Rebecca Onion, Slate Vault, 7 January 2015) {March, 2015}
• North America. Great Lakes. 'Making Maps, Mapping History. 300 years of original maps: Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region' (leading to a 40-page pdf booklet discussing 29 maps from the exhibition held at the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March-June 2007) {May, 2007}
• North America. Great Lakes. 'The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the Seventeenth Century' (Mark Steuer - Voyageur Magazine, 1984)
• * North America. 'Hiding and Highlighting Power in Eighteenth-Century North American Maps' (Slide Set #31: commentary by Andrea Foroughi, including six, low resolution maps - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• + North America. 'Maps of Early America' {October 2000}
• North America. John Mitchell. “The Most Important Map in U.S. History” (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, 'Map Commentaries', 2012) {January, 2015}
• + North America. John Mitchell's Map [of the British Colonies in North America] 1750-1755: An Irony of Empire - with a cartobibliography (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library exhibition)
• North America. 'A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress' (the standard work by Philip Lee Phillips, 1901 - a searchable 'turning the pages' text from the Open Library [NB, for reasonable legibility you will need to enlarge the screen]) {May, 2009}
• North America. 'Map-Making Misconceptions and the Quest for a Water Route to Asia through the Great Lakes' (illustrated commentary by Jack H. Haymond, 1997, on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #22) {November, 2006}
• North America. Mapping the American Revolution and its era (texts headed, About the Collection, Mapping the American Revolution and Its Era, Related Resources - Library of Congress, 'American Memory')
• North America. 'Mapping the French Empire in North America' (arranged in four illustrated sections, "A Virtual Exhibit based on selections from Buisseret, David. Mapping the French Empire in North America: An Interpretive Guide to the Exhibition Mounted at the Newberry Library on the Occasion of the 17th Annual Conference of the French Colonial Historical Society (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991")) {July, 2005}
• North America. 'A Most Curious Map' (reissue of an illustrated article by Bill Warren in The Map Collector 73 (Winter 1995); about maps by Buache and others of the north Pacific - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• North America. 'Nineteenth Century Images of the World for American School Children' (commentary to six images by Jeffrey C. Patton, 1997 - Newberry Library Slide Set #20) {March, 2002}
• North America. 'The North American Atlas: Mapping the American Revolutionary War' (by Joel Kovarsky, accompanying scans of William Faden's Ameri[c]an Atlas, 19 from a collection of 33 maps and battle plans of the Revolutionary War, 1759-77 - Lehigh University Digital Library, Bethlehem, PA) {November, 2010}
• North America. North-West America. 'Theoretical Cartography and the Sea of the West or Mer de l’Ouest' (illustrated note on the Geographicus Antique Map blog, 29 June 2009) {June, 2009}
• + North America. 'On the Map: the Seymour I. Schwartz Collection of North American Maps, 1500-1800' (an exhibition, with a number of enlargeable maps, in the Harrison Institute / Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, 2008-09) {April, 2009}
• North America. 'Panoramic Mapping: A Popular View of Victorian America - Cities and Towns' (a brief historical note by John R. Hébert and Patrick E. Dempsey - Library of Congress 'American Memory'). [Also here]. {November, 2005}
• North America. Panoramic Maps 1847-1929 (Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• North America. 'Realms of Gold: a Catalogue of Maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Society' (equivalent to a 600-page book, this catalogue, preceded by an introduction, by Murphy D. Smith, 1991, comprises 1774 entries (over 1000 relating to North America) of which 52 are MSS and three globes, illustrated with 'more than 100 maps') {September, 2005}
• North America. 'The Story of Maps: Mesoamerica in North America' (notes, by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales, accompanying an exhibition in 2004 at the Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, with, about half-way down, a list of 'Maps on Display at UCLA Exhibit'; this starts with the J. Disturnell Mapa de los estados unidos de Méjico (1847), whose reference to the Hopi and to the ancient Aztec homeland (Aztlán) prompted the exhibit and the note) {January, 2006}
• North America. River of the West. 'How Good Cartographers Make Big Mistakes: The River of the West in Bellin’s 1743 Map of North America' {March, 2013}
• North America. 'Thoreau’s Cartographic Explorations: Imagining Nature through Maps' (summary of a talk by John Hessler on 16 October 2009 at the Osher Map Library - on the Warping History blog). [See also Donna Urschel's summary for the January-February 2010 issue of the Library of Congress Information Bulletin 69: 1 & 2; see here for the podcast of the lecture; and see also The Morphology of the Early New England Landscape: Searching for the Lost Maps of Henry David Thoreau (posted on the Warping History blog on 25 December 2010)] {October, 2009; amended December 2010}
• North America. Velasco Map. "Commentary to 'The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?'" (on the MS map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, by Kirsten A. Seaver in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no.5 (February 14, 2006)) {February, 2006}
• North America. Velasco map. 'The Genesis of the United States - Alexander Brown 1890' (excerpts, and illustrations, from the book by the map's discoverer, and from Fite & Freeman's A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History (1928)) {March, 2006}
• North America. Velasco Map. 'Map of Atlantic Coast of North America, 1610 (also known as the 'Velasco Map')' (and also: 'Color and/or modern reproductions of the "Velasco Map" - I' (the first of five gallery pages); both comprising text and comparative illustrations - Deborah Taylor-Pearce) {September, 2006}
• North America. Velasco Map. 'The So-Called "Velasco Map": A Case of Forgery?' (on the MS map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, by David Y. Allen in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. A, no.5 (February 14, 2006)) {February, 2006}
• see also People: Cabot; Drake; Frobisher
• Bermuda. 'Checklist of printed maps of Bermuda 1585-1778' [75 entries] (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 3, March/April 1999)
• Bermuda. 'Mapping the Summer Isles' (C.W. Hart, Jr., originally in in Cosmos Journal, 2001) {July, 2005}

Canada

• Canada - Arctic see under Polar Regions
• Canada. ArchiviaNet: On-line research tool. 'Maps, plans and charts' (use Archives Search for a searchable database, of approximately 50,000 early maps, plans and charts from the 16th century up to the 1980s, about 1,500 of them supplied with images [further images will be added annually] - Library and Archives Canada) {September, 2003; partly updated September 2017}
• + 'Canada at Scale': Maps of our History (Library and Archives Canada) {October 2000}
• Canada. Bibliothèque historique centrale de la Marine (a listing of French MS maps [Le Recueil 65-69] relating to Canada and the USA from the 17th century; based now at the Château de Vincennes, in the Paris suburbs, this is the successor to various earlier organisations, including the Dépôt des cartes et plans) {October, 2010}
• Canada - British Columbia. (a 133-page pdf inventory of the collection of 1,865 maps (predominantly 1880-1930), formed by R.C. (Bob) Harris, relating to historical trails and events concerning the fur trade, gold rushes, Royal Engineers and early mining - Special Collections Division, University of British Columbia Library) {February, 2008}
• Canada - British Columbia. 'Cartography of British Columbia: A Bibliography of Sources in the University of British Columbia Library' (Frances M. Woodward, 2005) {April, 2006}
• Canada - British Columbia. 'Search Maps' ('a database of all historical maps covering the area of what is now British Columbia up to joining Confederation in 1871'; brief descriptions of 'about 3000 maps' - Historical Map Society of British Columbia). {November, 2009}
• Canada. Canadian Genealogy and History Links (Jessica Veinot) {May, 2002}
• Canada. Canadian history. ‘Cartography and Empire’ (a series of illustrated essays, September-November 2018) {March, 2020}
• Canada, ‘Cartography in Canada: 1600–1763’ (an illustrated summary by C.E. Heidenreich for the Canadian Encyclopedia, 5 November 2021) November, 2021}
• Canada. 'Carving up America. "Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays c'est l'hiver - Gilles Vigneault" ' (J Victor Owen - Mercator's World 6:3, 2001) {May, 2001}
• + Canada. Champlain the cartographer [part of 'Living in Canada in the time of Champlain 1600-1635'] {October 2000}
• Canada. 'The Changing Role of Natives in the Exploration of Canada: Cartier (1534) to Mackenzie (1793)' (Conrad Heidenreich, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 28-40) {November, 2005}
• Canada. 'Colonial Archives' (searching Keywords for map found descriptions of 53 items, from the Vatican and other non-Canadian repositories, held as microfilm in the Library and Archives Canada) {January, 2004}
• Canada. ‘Colonial North America at Harvard Library’ (comprising nearly 20,000 digital items; ‘selected collections relating to Canada’, a round-up by Alexi Garrett {June, 2018}
• Canada. 'Conflict on the Connecticut' (Alec McEwen - Mercator's World 6:5, 2001 - about the Republic of Indian Stream, in an area claimed by both the US and Canada) {September, 2001}
• + Canada. 'The David Thompson Bicentennial Exhibition' (featuring a number of maps of North America, shown as thumbnails - University of Toronto) {June, 2011}
• + Canada. 'David Thompson: Map Maker, Explorer and Visionary' (online exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of his death, including an illustrated section with maps, 'North America's Greatest Geographer' - Archives of Ontario) {June, 2008}
• Canada - Des Barres, see under North America
• Canada. 'Digitization of cartographic materials: National Archives of Canada' (a paper presented to IFLA in August 2001 - a detailed analysis of activities in Canada by Betty Kidd, in Inspel 36 (2002) 1, pp. 53-66) {January, 2004}
• Canada. 'Early Cartography of Newfoundland and Labrador' (Alberta Auringer Wood, 2000) {October 2000}
• Canada. ‘Early Printed Maps of Canada’ (by Kenneth A. Kershaw (1993-98); listing over 1,200 maps, most illustrated; in 4 volumes although Vol. 1 is not available online – McMaster University Libraries) {August, 2017}
• Canada. ‘L'État et l'espace colonial: savoirs géographiques entre la France et la Nouvelle-France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles’ (PhD thesis by Jean-François Palomino, Université de Montréal, October 2018) {December, 2018}
• Canada. 'Explorers, Surveyors and Mappers' (13-page illustrated pdf article by Marc S. Cheves in The American Surveyor July-August 2006, featuring particularly David Thompson and Alexander MacKenzie) {September, 2006}
• Canada. 'The Explorers' (notes on 19 explorers, and their maps) {March, 2002}
• Canada. 'Fortified Towns of New France' (commentary by Daniel Scalberg, 1989, on six slides, about Québec, Montreal and Louisbourg - Newberry Library Slide Set #12) {April, 2006}
• Canada. Geological maps. William E. Logan (Brian C. Shipley's 'Academic Research' page with links to various online texts) {January, 2008}
• Canada. Geological maps. 'Written in Stone: William E. Logan and the Geological Survey of Canada (a site with a number of sections, including a brief note on Geological Maps; also in French - Library and Archives Canada) {January, 2008}
• Canada. 'The Ghost of Henry Hudson: the mysterious Hudson chart of Hessel Gerritsz' (by Douglas McNaughton - Mercator's World 4:3, 1999)
• Canada. Great Lakes, see under North America
• Canada. "Île-de-France". Bibliothèque historique centrale de la Marine (despite the title, this describes briefly the MS and printed maps relating to North America (mostly Canada)) {December, 2003}
• Canada. "Île-de-France". Bibliothèque nationale de France, François-Mitterrand (despite the title, this describes briefly the MS and printed maps relating to North America (mostly Canada)) {February, 2007}
• Canada. Indian. ‘First Nation's Mapping of Canada: Ochagach's 1730 Map’ (an illustrated and explanatory note of a sketch map of a route between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Lake Winnipeg, made for La Vérendrye by a First Nations Cree; for more on this see History of Cartography 2:3, pp.144-6) {April, 2018}
• Canada. Indian. 'The Image of the Indians in Early French Atlases and Travel Accounts' (commentary by Mathé Allain, 1989, on six slides - Newberry Library Slide Set #13) {April, 2006}
• Canada. '"I wish these annual reports were at the devil": William E. Logan and the publications of the Geological Survey of Canada' (Brian C. Shipley, Dalhousie University) {November, 2003}
• Canada. 'The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France 1610-1791' (Vol. LVII. Lower Canada, Iroquois, Ottawas 1672-1673 (Cleveland, 1899), edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, computerized transcription by Tomasz Mentrak. The title continues: 'The Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes; Illustrated by Portraits, Maps, and Facsimiles'. A 318-page book, though the maps seem not to have been captured) {September, 2006}
• Canada. 'Looking at Old Maps: the World Through the Eyes of Early Mapmakers' (introductory text, focussing on Canada but with maps of the world etc., illustrated with 11 scans - Jeffrey Murray, Library and Archives Canada) {September, 2006}
• Canada - Louisbourg. 'Streets Paved with Gold: Fortress of Louisbourg on Early Maps' (J. Victor Owen - Mercator's World 8:2, 2003) {May, 2003}
• Canada. 'Mapping the French Empire in North America' (arranged in four illustrated sections, "A Virtual Exhibit based on selections from Buisseret, David. Mapping the French Empire in North America: An Interpretive Guide to the Exhibition Mounted at the Newberry Library on the Occasion of the 17th Annual Conference of the French Colonial Historical Society (Chicago: The Newberry Library, 1991"). {July, 2005}
• Canada - New Brunswick. 'The Border Dispute: How the Maine-New Brunswick border was finalized' (illustrated article of the events leading up to the 1842 settlement of the US/Canada boundary by C. Gagnon, 2004) {May, 2005}
• Canada - New Brunswick. 'Manuscript maps that were assembled by Egbert Benson and sent in 1802 to Rufus King, United States minister to Great Britain' ('in order to facilitate negotiations over disputed international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick'; four maps with accompanying texts - Library of Congress) {July, 2010}
• Canada - Newfoundland. 'Shanawdithit's Story: Mapping the last days of the Beothuk' (Stephen R Bown - Mercator's World 5:5, 2000)
• Canada - Newfoundland and Labrador Map Bibliography (a searchable bibliography, describing 'printed and manuscript maps of Newfoundland and Labrador in libraries and archives in Newfoundland, other parts of Canada, the United States, and England' - Alberta Auringer Wood) {November, 2001}
• Canada. 'No Stone Unturned: The First 150 years of the Geological Survey of Canada' (Christy Vodden, 1992) {November, 2003}
• Canada. 'La Nouvelle France: Ressources Françaises' (a directory of French archives, museums, libraries, etc. holding Canadian materials; it is not clear how maps can be searched for) {December, 2003}
• Canada - Nova Scotia. '[Re]Presenting Halifax' (a continuing (?) series of short illustrated articles by Matt Neville, which 'revisits historical and contemporary maps, diagrams and other interpretive readings of the Halifax region', starting 28 January 2010, comprising 'Exploring the potential of the city through mapping', 'Against the grain', 'DesBarres on Halifax and Sydney' - Spacing Atlantic magazine)
• Canada - Ontario. ‘Tracing the History of Northern Ontario at the British Library’ (by Shaelagh Cull for the British Library American Collections Blog, 21 July 2020) {August, 2020}
• Canada - Ottawa. ‘7 maps that tell the story of Ottawa’ (Trevor Prichard for CBC News, 7 January 2019) {January, 2019}
• Canada. [Pages on the history of hydrography in Canada] (mounted by the Friends of Hydrography of the Canadian Hydrographic Service)
• Canada. 'Pathfinders Passageways: The Exploration of Canada' (an extensive site, including sections entitled 'The Mapmakers: An Essay in Four Parts', 'Mapping the Northwest', etc. - National Library of Canada) {July, 2003}
• Canada. ‘This phantom island was once believed to lie in the Strait of Belle Isle’ (‘The Isle of Demons was feared by early European visitors to the Americas and charted on their maps’; first noted on Johannes Ruysch’s 1508 world map - Ainsley Hawthorn for CBC News, 2 July 2023) {August, 2023}
• Canada - Saint-Pierre & Miquelon ('Cartographie des îles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon du XVIe au XIXe siècle: toponymie et représentation variées d'une balise cartographique de la côte atlantique' - illustrated with diagrams, etc., a paper delivered at ICHC 2003, by Marc A. Cormier) {July, 2003}
• Canada - Toronto. 'Fort York and Garrison Common Maps' (a list of the known maps, linked to scans, with an introductory essay by Joan Winearls - N. Ng with The Friends of Fort York) {July, 2013}
• Canada - Toronto. 'Historicist: Cartographic Civic Pride' (a well-illustrated note about P.A. Gross's 'Lithographic Bird's Eye View of Toronto' (1876) by Kevin Plummer, torontoist, 14 April 2010) {April, 2010}
• Toronto. 'The Toronto Park Lot Project' ('an exploration of the earliest days of Toronto', providing four overlay maps (1802-51), also 'History Notes', in particular 'About early surveyors...' - Wendy Smith) {January, 2015}
• Canada. Velasco map. 'The Genesis of the United States - Alexander Brown 1890' (excerpts, and illustrations, from the book by the map's discoverer, and from Fite & Freeman's A Book of Old Maps Delineating American History (1928)) {March, 2006}
• Canada. Velasco Map. 'The So-Called "Velasco Map": A Case of Forgery?' (on the MS map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, by David Y. Allen in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. A, no.5 (February 14, 2006)) {February, 2006}
• Canada. Velasco Map. "Commentary to 'The So-Called Velasco Map: A Case of Forgery?'" (on the MS map of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada, by Kirsten A. Seaver in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association , ser. B, no.5 (February 14, 2006)) {February, 2006}
• Canada - west coast. 'The List of Charts and Drawings Brought Back to England from Monterey by Broughton in 1793' (Andrew David, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 91-4) {November, 2005}
• Canada. ' "You Will Readily Conjecture": the explorations and maps of Peter Pond' (Derek Hayes - Mercator's World, 7:2, 2002) {March, 2002}

United States (general, people and themes)

• Academic cartography. 'A History of Twentieth-Century American Academic Cartography' (Robert McMaster and Susanna McMaster, in 'Exploratory Essays Initiative: Twentieth-Century Cartography' (edited by Mark Monmonier and David Woodward) - pdf version of the chapter in the special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 29:3 (July 2002)) {September, 2003}
• American atlases. 'Development of the American Atlas: 1790–1980' (by Judith A. Tyner, June 1989, nine pages - an occasional paper of the California Map Society) {June, 2011}
• American cartography. 'Arthur H. Robinson: A Look at a Career' (a paper, 'reviewing the work of Arthur H. Robinson and the evolution of American academic cartography in the twentieth century' by Jake Coolidge, given at the March 2009 meeting of the Association of American Geographers) {October, 2009}
• American Revolution. ‘British Spy Map of Lexington and Concord: A Detective Story’ (by Ed Redmond, Library of Congress Maps Blog, 18 April 2016) {May, 2016}
• + American Revolution. ’Life, Liberty and the Representation of Space: Maps of the American Revolution‘ (online exhibition, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• American Revolution. 'Richard Williams maps the siege of Boston' [1775-6] (illustrated note by Allison K. Lange, Journal of the American Revolution, 5 October 2015) {October, 2015}
• American Revolution. 'We are one: mapping America’s road from revolution to independence' (article illustrated with maps, etc., by Elizabeth M. Covart in Journal of the American Revolution, 6 May 2015, about the travelling exhibition from the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library) {June, 2015}
• Bibliothèque historique centrale de la Marine (a listing of French MS maps [Le Recueil 65-69] relating to Canada and the USA from the 17th century; based now at the Château de Vincennes, in the Paris suburbs, this is the successor to various earlier organisations, including the Dépôt des cartes et plans) {October, 2010}
• Bird's-eye views see Panoramic Maps below
• Boston map publishing. 'Made in Boston' (26 maps (enlargeable scans with captions), arranged in sections under New England, Boston, Cyprian Southack, and the contests for empire and land - exhibition at the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library, November 2013-March 2014) {November, 2013}
• Burr & Smith. '1839 David Burr and Jedediah Smith Map of the United States' (an illustrated note by Kevin Brown on the Geographicus blog, 27 April 2010) {May, 2010}
• Census Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (Donald C. Dahmann - for Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• Census. ‘Gannett and Hewes’ Visualizations of the 1880 Census’ (illustrated note by Meagan Snow for the Library of Congress Maps blog,22 December 2022) {December, 2022}
• Chromolithography. 'A pageant of spectacles: Chromolithography in America' (an introduction, in the form of a video commentary by Matthew Edney, to an exhibition at the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine [opened 30 November 2023], on Edney's 'Mapping as Process' blog, 1 December 2023) {February, 2024}
• Cities & Towns. 'Early Cities of the Americas' (articles on: Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Amsterdam, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Quebec City, Salt Lake City, Saint Louis, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. - Common-place The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 3:4 (2003)) {August, 2003}
• Cities & Towns see also Panoramic Maps below
• Civil War. 'Blinded Giant: the role of maps in Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg campaign' (Earl B McElfresh - Mercator's World 5:3, 2000)
• Civil War. 'General Sherman's Maps' (Susan Schulten, New York Times 'Opinionator', 20 November 2014) {March, 2015}
• Civil War. 'He Swallowed His Maps: Robert K. Sneden's Civil War cartography' (Mel Mandell - Mercator's World 8:1, 2003) {February, 2003}
• Civil War. 'History of Mapping the Civil War' (an illustrated essay, arranged under the following headings: Prewar Mapping, Union Mapping, Confederate Mapping, Field Mapping, Official Battlefield Maps, Commercial Mapping, and Postwar Mapping - reproduced from Civil War Maps: an Annotated List of Maps and Atlases in the Library of Congress, compiled by Richard W. Stephenson, 2nd edition (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989)). [Also here]. {November, 2005}
• Civil War. 'The Hotchkiss Map Collection: Confederate Army Maps' (images of the 341 sketchbooks, manuscripts, and annotated printed maps; see also Clara LeGear 'The Hotchkiss Collection of Confederate Maps' (1948) and a List of the maps - Library of Congress American Memory) {September, 2005}
• Civil war. ‘More Places in Civil War History’ (about ‘maps produced during the Civil War, their creation, and the geography they depict’; by Amelia Raines for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 14 September 2023) {October, 2023}
• Civil War. 'Picturing Big Bethel: Examining the first battlefield map of the Civil War' (an opinion piece by Susan Schulten in the New York Times, 10 June 2011, about what can be considered the first land battle of the Civil War, at Bethel, Virginia, illustrated with enlargeable maps) {December, 2012}
• Civil War. ‘Places in Civil War History: Surveys of the Gulf Coast’ (illustrated note by Ed Redmond for the Library of Congress Maps Blog, 21 June 2017) {June, 2017}
• Civil War. ‘Places in Civil War History: The First Battle of Bull Run’ (illustrated note by Ed Redmond for the Library of Congress Maps Blog, 19 July 2017) {July, 2017}
• Civil War. 'Re-Imagining the U.S. Civil War: Reconnaissance, Surveying & Cartography' (a 134- minute podcast by Edward Ayers, Susan Schulten & Richard Stephenson, 20 May 2011, with a transcript; also a 126-minute afternoon session by John Cloud, Adrienne Lundgren & Robert Mergel - Library of Congress ) {October, 2012}
• Civil War. 'Sherman's Maps' (illustrated piece by Susan Schulten, New York Times, 20 November 2014) {November, 2014}
• Civil War. 'Striking Civil War Maps of the Territory Gains That Saved Lincoln's Presidency' (Susan Schulten, New Republic, 26 November 2014) {March, 2015}
• Coasts. 'American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850' (numerous short but useful texts, e.g. via 'Geographical Area', accompanying a large selection of images - New York Public Library) {December, 2002}
• Coasts. ‘Notes on the Coast of the United States’ (eight memoirs, covering the east and Gulf coasts, written in 1861 by the Blockade Strategy Board, with links to the related charts - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) {March, 2005}
• Coasts. 'Shore and Sea Boundaries' (the full 3-volume text (in pdf) by Aaron L. Shalowitz & Michael W. Reed; "Volume Two [1964] concerns the use and interpretation of Coast and Geodetic Survey data, particularly the early surveys and charts, with special emphasis on those features and aspects that have legal significance" - NOAA) {June, 2009}
• Coasts. 'Superseded U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Nautical Chart Conversion Table' (a concordance to the numbering of 19th and 20th century coasts - Phil Hoehn and Julie Sweetkind-Singer, Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, Stanford University) {September, 2005}
• Cold War. 'American Cartographic Transformations during the Cold War' (John Cloud, in 'Exploratory Essays Initiative: Twentieth- Century Cartography' (edited by Mark Monmonier and David Woodward) - pdf version of the chapter in the special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 29:3 (July 2002)) {September, 2003}
• + 'Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience' (illustrated commentary with an emphasis on social aspects ('objects and imagery related to America’s historical fascination with maps'); an exhibition curated by Martin Brückner, April 2013-January 2014 - Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library) {July, 2014}
• Communication. ‘Mapping Communication’ (illustrated essay by Robert Macdougall for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Des Barres, see under North America
• 'Discovery of the Rawlinson copperplate maps of the Americas and their related prints' (reissue of an illustrated article by Pearce S. Grove & Helen M. Wallis in The Map Collector 56 (Autumn 1991); about copperplates at the Bodleian Library and engravings at Holkham Hall; see the related article in United States (states & regions) (under 'Massachusettts - Boston') - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• “Eastern Branch of the Potomac River” or “Anacostia River”? A Cartographic Curiosity… (a brief illustrated note by Ed Redmond for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 28 December 2020) {December, 2020}
• Education. Emma Willard. ‘Maps Have the Power to Shape History’ (‘a groundbreaking female cartographer charted the evolution of the United States—and the dispossession of Native Americans’ – a note by Sarah Lasksow on Atlas Obscura, 15 October 2018, illustrated with three of Willard’s maps) {October, 2018}
• Elections. 'The Story Behind the Ancient Map That Invented Red and Blue States. The country was just as polarized 125 years ago — except the colors were upside down' (illustrated piece by Susan Schulten for newrepublic.com) {August, 2014}
• Embroidery. 'Stitching Empire: Cecilia Lewis's Map of the United States, 1809' (an illustrated article about an embroidered silk map, by Mary Peterson Zundo [click on the images to enlarge], Common-Place, 14:3 (Spring 2014)) {June, 2014}
• ‘European Maps for Exploration and Discovery’ (illustrated essay by David Buisseret for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• ‘Fire Insurance Maps at the Library of Congress: A Resource Guide’ {May, 2021}
• Fire Insurance (Sanborn). ‘Fire Insurance Maps at the Library of Congress: A Resource Guide. Sanborn Atlas Volume Finder’ (covering Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington D.C.) {May, 2023}
• ‘Fire Insurance Maps (Sanborn) at the Library of Congress: A Resource Guide - Interpreting Sanborn Maps’ {October, 2023}
• Fire insurance maps. ‘Exploring the Past with Sanborn Maps and Newspaper Navigator’ (a mash-up of Sanborn atlases and photographs by Selena Quian, described by Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal for the Library of Congress blog, ‘The Signal’, 12 January 2021) {January, 2021}
• Fire insurance maps. ‘Freely Accessible Sanborn Maps Online’ (Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog){March, 2018}
• 'Fire Insurance Maps' (a combined listing of the Sanborn holdings of individual states, from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
• Fire Insurance (Sanborn). ‘Union List of Sanborn and other Fire Insurance Maps’ (by Philip Hoehn, University of California, Berkeley; the list is now frozen) {March, 2018}
• Fire insurance (Sanborn) – see (a) for general listings: Text Themes: Fire insurance and, for specific US states, United States (states & regions); and (b) for general collections of online images: Image Themes: Fire insurance and for specific states United States (states & regions)
• Geological maps. ‘Explanatory text to accompany the geologic map of the United States’ (including a section ‘Previous geologic maps of the United States’ - USGS ‘Geological Survey Professional Paper 901’ by Philip B. King and Helen M. Beikman, 1974) {April, 2005}
• Geological maps. National Geologic Map Database. Geologic Names Lexicon "GEOLEX" (‘a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names’ relating to the US - USGS) {October, 2004}
• Geological maps. 'The United States Geological Survey: 1879-1989' (U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1050, by Mary C. Rabbitt, including a section The Four Great Surveys of the West) {May, 2005}
• Grand Canyon. 'Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, the Ives-Expedition to the Grand Canyon (1857-58), and the first relief shaded maps of a portion of the United States' (a paper by Imre Demhardt at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• * 'Grille, ville et territoire, aux Etats-Unis: un quadrillage de lespace pour une pensée spécifique de la ville et de son territoire' (Catherine Maumi - doctoral thesis: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1997)
• ’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}
• 'History Matters' ("a range of resources, including 1000 primary documents in text, image, and audio; an annotated guide to 850 of the best U.S. History websites; guides to using various kinds of online primary sources, such as oral history and maps" - George Mason University) {June, 2008}
• Indian. 'A Colorful Late-19th-Century Map of Native American Languages' (by John Wesley Powell, 1890, based on earlier research - Rebecca Onion, Slate Vault, 22 February 2016) {February, 2016}
• Indian. ‘The discovery of a map made by a Native American is reshaping thinking about the Lewis & Clark expedition’ (‘drawn by an Arikara leader named Too Né, whom Lewis and Clark met on today’s North Dakota-South Dakota border on October 8, 1804’; discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France - History News Network, 25 April 2018) {April, 2018}
• Education. Emma Willard. ‘Maps Have the Power to Shape History’ (‘a groundbreaking female cartographer charted the evolution of the United States—and the dispossession of Native Americans’ – a note by Sarah Lasksow on Atlas Obscura, 15 October 2018, illustrated with three of Willard’s maps) {October, 2018}
• Indian. ‘First Nation's Mapping of Canada: Ochagach's 1730 Map’ (an illustrated and explanatory note of a sketch map of a route between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Lake Winnipeg, made for La Vérendrye by a First Nations Cree; for more on this see History of Cartography 2:3, pp.144-6) {April, 2018}
• + Indian. ’How the Barbarians Became Noble Savages: The Changing Image of Native Americans in European Cartography ‘ (online exhibition at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• Indian. 'The Image of the Indians in Early French Atlases and Travel Accounts' (commentary by Mathé Allain, 1989, on six slides - Newberry Library Slide Set #13) {April, 2006}
• Indian. 'Links to North American Indian Map Pages' (over 450 links, many to original maps of North America on other sites, without commentary - Phil Konstantin) {May, 2005}
• + Indian. 'Native American History at the Clements Library' ('an expanded version of the physical exhibit American Encounters, formerly on display at the William L. Clements Library', illustrated with a selection of maps) {October, 2011}
• Indian. 'Native American Mapping Traditions' (a note accompanying 'Lewis & Clark in the Illinois Country - Illinois State Museum) {June, 2009}
• Indian. 'Powhatan’s Deerskin Mantle with Shell Map, ca. 1608' (a web essay with texts and comment on the "ornamental deerskin cloak, with shell beadwork symbolically mapping the balance of power among southeastern Indians of the Chesapeake tidewater region", with illustrations including the White and de Bry maps of Virginia - Deborah Taylor-Pearce) {July, 2005}
• Indian Trails. 'The Indian Trails Project' (text and a selection of map scans, mostly about the Cherokee Nation in northern Georgia) {January, 2008}
• ‘Indian Trails’ [in Georgia] (article by Louis DeVorsey in The New Georgia Encyclopedia , 2003) {March, 2005}
• Inequality. ‘Mapping Inequality. Redlining in New Deal America’ (the national collection of "security maps" and area descriptions produced by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (1935-40); with four coloured categories representing risk to mortgage lenders, these are records of deprivation and racial discrimination) {October, 2016}
• Jefferson. 'The Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress' (among the 83,000 images are maps and documents relating to maps - a keyword search on 'maps' found 54) {January, 2004}
• 'Johnson U.S. Map Project' (a cartobibliography of the maps in the atlases of Alvin J. Johnson, 1854-87; including a Gallery and historical essays - Ira Lourie) {January, 2012}
• Land auction. ‘Absolute Sale! NYC Land Auction Catalogs in the Map Division’ (illustrated note by Kate Cordes, New York Public Library, 20 November 2014) {January, 2017}
• Land ownership. 'From metes and bounds to grids or a Cliffs Notes History of Land Ownership in the United States' (Richard Norejko in, Fair & Equitable (January 2009) pp. 3-16) {March, 2011}
• Land ownership. ‘Exploring County Land Ownership Maps’ (an illustrated note by Richard W. Stephenson, updated by Ed Redmond, for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 27 September 2018) {September, 2018}
• Land system. ‘The Early United States Land System’ (illustrated note by John Dotson for the Old World Auctions Newsletter, October 2016) {October, 2016}
• Land use. 'Vernor C. Finch: The "Fractional Code" for Land Use Mapping, 1933' (by John Corbett, for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) {March, 2008}
• ‘Late Breaking News: Revolutionary War Battle Maps’ (New-York Historical Society, illustrated blog entry by Nina Nazionale, 18 November 2017) {December, 2017}
• Lewis & Clark (select, from 'Discovery Paths', 'Geography' for 15 topics, some relating to cartography) {February, 2003}
• Lewis & Clark. ‘The crossing of a continent’ (a brief illustrated note by Julie Stoner for the Library of Congress maps blog, 14 July 2023) {August, 2023}
• Lewis & Clark. ‘The discovery of a map made by a Native American is reshaping thinking about the Lewis & Clark expedition’ (‘drawn by an Arikara leader named Too Né, whom Lewis and Clark met on today’s North Dakota-South Dakota border on October 8, 1804’; discovered in the Bibliothèque nationale de France - History News Network, 25 April 2018) {April, 2018}
• Lewis & Clark. 'Historical Context of Lewis and Clark's Cartographic Work: Mapping a new Territory' (Al Bredenberg - for the Smithsonian Institution's Lewis & Clark site) {May, 2003}
• Lewis & Clark. 'The Journey of the Corps of Discovery' (related to a film by Ken Burns for the Public Broadcasting Service, with a small section on maps in the 'Archive') {March, 2012}
• Lewis & Clark. 'Losing Lewis & Clark' (one of the 'Popular Cartography Exhibits' from the 2004 Reading Popular Cartography Seminar at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {August, 2008}
• Lewis & Clark. 'Mapping on the Trail: Route Mapping on the Lewis and Clark Expedition' (Ralph Ehrenberg - for the Smithsonian Institution's Lewis & Clark site) {May, 2003}
• Lewis & Clark. 'On This Day With Lewis and Clark' (a lesson plan, using scans of a range of early maps from different collections for historical exercises - National Endowment for the Humanities) {December, 2007}
• Lewis & Clark. ‘Re-Thinking Geographical Exploration as Intelligence Collection : The Example of Lewis and Clark’s "Corps of Discovery" ‘ (by Carol Medlicott, in: Terrae Incognitae 35 (2003), 1-15) {December, 2004}
• + Lewis & Clark. 'Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America' (several illustrated texts and an Object Checklist, with links to images of the items; see also the press release - Library of Congress exhibition, 2003) {August, 2003}
• 'Lewis Evans his map of the Middle British Colonies in America' ('a comparative account of eighteen different editions published between 1755 and 1814' by Henry N. Stevens, 1924 - 3rd edition; full text online) {March, 2015}
• Linguistics. 'Hans Kurath: Linguistic Atlas of the United States' (by Nina Brown, for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) {March, 2008}
• 'A list of maps of America in the Library of Congress' (the standard work by Philip Lee Phillips, 1901 - a searchable 'turning the pages' text from the Open Library [NB, for reasonable legibility you will need to enlarge the screen]) {May, 2009}
• + * Literary. 'Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• 'Louis H. Everts: American Atlas Publisher and Entrepreneur' (illustrated, footnoted article by Jefferson M. Moak in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no.11 (June 8, 2009)) {June, 2009}
• Louisiana Purchase. 'Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase' (leading to an illustrated 118-page PDF essay by Michael Klein; covering 'the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is now the state of Montana' - Library of Congress, American Memory) {September, 2007}
• ’Making of the modern map’ (a special issue of the Library of Congress Magazine, September/October 2016 devoted to the history of maps (mostly relating to the USA), with a range of short illustrated articles) {October, 2016}
• Map collecting. 'Institutional Map and Atlas Collecting in Eighteenth-Century America' (David Bosse in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. B, no. 9 (April 16, 2008)) {April, 2008}
• ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ (13 peer-reviewed essays [with 10 more to follow later in 2016] each illustrated with 10 enlargeable scans and extensive bibliographies, relating to the history of travel, commerce, migration, and communications to and from North America from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries; use the ‘Browse’ to search for various categories - edited by James R. Akerman & Peter Nekola, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• + ‘Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic’ (online version of an exhibition at the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, April-December 2019) {May, 2020}
• ’Mapping the Nation with pre-1900 U.S. Maps: Uniting the United States’ (commentary on a selection of enlargeable maps, also Part II - by Artis Q. Wright, Specialist II, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, May & June 2018) {May, 2018}
• + 'Mapping the Republic: conflicting concepts of the territory and character of the U.S.A., 1790-1900' (illustrated exhibition at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, 2003) {January, 2004; amended November 2011}
• ‘Maps & Atlases’ (‘WWW-VL: History: USA: Maps & Atlases’ - a gateway site, with links classified by date, subject and area, maintained by George Laughead Jr) {March, 2005}
• Marquette. 'The Jacques Marquette Map Hoax' (a series of papers by Carl J. Weber, exploring the thesis that 'the map is too accurate for its time') {November, 2006}
• Mason-Dixon line (a brief note from ThoughtCo., formerly about.com) {January, 2001}
• Mexico border. '19th Century Changes in the U.S.-Mexico Border / Annotated Map Bibliography' (Paul Bary, 1991-98)
• Mexico border. 'Cartography of the Mexico-United States Frontier' (commentary by Antonio Rios-Bustamante, 1997, on six maps [three shown] - Newberry Library Slide Set #21) {November, 2006}
• Migration. ‘Mapping Migration and Settlement’ (illustrated essay by Ronald Grim for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Military. 'Maps of National Historic Sites, Memorials, Military Parks and Battlefields' [an extensive alphabetical list of links - the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin] {October 2000}
• Military see also Civil War above
• * Movement. 'Mapping Movement in American History and Culture' ('thematic essays and image captions by leading scholars in their fields offer a variety of perspectives on the history and technology of American travel, transportation, commerce, and communications' - a publication of the Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, using more than 500 images of their maps) {August, 2024}
• NARA. National Archives & Records Administration. 'Cartographic and Architectural Records' (guide to online resources ['over 15 million maps, charts, aerial photographs, architectural drawings, patents, and ships plans'] and to searching the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL)) {May, 2002}
• NARA. National Archives & Records Administration. 'List of Selected Maps of States and Territories' ('Special List 29', with brief descriptions of 887 maps, broken down by state, and a general Names index - U.S. National Archives & Records Administration) {March, 2004}
• NARA. National Archives & Records Administration ('Inventories, Preliminary Inventories, and Special Lists': search on 'map' for links to published leaflets on various aspects of NARA's cartographic holdings - U.S. National Archives & Records Administration) {March, 2004}
• National Parks. 'Mapping the National Parks' (includes the following texts: About the Collection, A Brief History of Mapping the National Parks, Selected Bibliography, Related Resources - Library of Congress, 'American Memory')
• ‘Navigating the Coasts and Seas’ (illustrated essay by John Cloud for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• NOAA. 'The Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Reports 1844-1910: Bibliography' (with author and chronological indexes, and with notes on the 'Functions of the Coast Survey and the Coast and Geodetic Survey') {January, 2002}
• NOAA. The Coast Survey 1807-1867. Volume 1 of the History of the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (a 623-page book by Captain Albert E. Theberge, 1998)
• NOAA Coast Survey. 'What does the age of the survey mean for nautical charts?' {July, 2015}
• + NOAA. 'Ferdinand Rudolf Hassler (1770-1843): Swiss Pioneer for US Surveying, Mapping and Standards' (text, in English and German, of the information panels and exhibition labels for the 2007 exhibition in Switzerland, about Hassler's time in Switzerland and his part in the founding of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey) {January, 2008}
• 'NOAA History' (biographical sketches, 'Stories and Tales', 'Tools of the Trade', etc. - National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) {September, 2006}
• NOAA. 'A History of NOAA, Being a Compilation of Facts and Figures Regarding the Life and Times of the Original Whole Earth Agency' (Eileen L Shea, 1987; edited by Skip Theberge, 1999)
• NOAA. 'Historical Map and Chart Collection' (a large collection of images of charts, maps and plans, mostly 19th century) {November 2000}
• 'The North American Atlas: Mapping the American Revolutionary War' (by Joel Kovarsky, accompanying scans of William Faden's Ameri[c]an Atlas, 19 from a collection of 33 maps and battle plans of the Revolutionary War, 1759-77 - Lehigh University Digital Library, Bethlehem, PA) {November, 2010}
• Panoramic Maps. 'Bird’s-Eye Views: A Brief History' (an illustrated essay by Ron Tyler accompanying the 'Texas Bird's-Eye Views' site - Amon Carter Museum) {July, 2005}
• Panoramic Maps see also Cities & Towns above
• Paper cities. 'Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory' (by Benjamin Chambers, 1835; an example of a 'paper city', designed to lure investors and often not built - links are given to commentary and images of other US 'paper cities') {May, 2012}
• Photographs. 'The Crown Collection of Photographs of American Maps' (pdfs of the important collection relating to colonial North America gathered by Archer Butler Hulbert in British archives, comprising 18 volumes arranged in five series (Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1907-1930); the best way to search the collection may be via the Newberry Library's Cartographic Catalog) {August, 2009}
• Place-names. 'Yes, Virginia, Names Are Always Important' (a piece by Conley L. Edwards citing sources for US place-names - on the GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com blog, 30 July 2009) {July, 2009}
• + Portugal. 'Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective' [Library of Congress exhibition] {October 2000}
• Postal maps. 'Picturing a Networked Nation: Abraham Bradley's Landmark U.S. Postal Maps' (by Larry Caldwell and Michael Buehler in The Portolan 77 (Spring 2010) pp.7-24) {August, 2010}
‘The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders’ (a conference held at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, 10-12 October 2019, relating to the exhibition‘, Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic’; videos of some of the talks available via the website) {December, 2019}
• 'Printed maps of the United States 1778-1800' [with checklist of 117 maps] (MapForum 1, January 1999)
• Proposed state names. ‘Nine US States You've Never Heard Of - Part I’ (Franklin, Morgania, Fredonia, Deseret, proposed for statehood but never admitted to the Union, by Joe McAlhany for the Old World Auctions July 2018 Newsletter; also, Part II in the August Newsletter: Colona and Jefferson, Kanawha, Pembina, Sequoyah) {September, 2018}
• Railroads. ‘American Railroad Maps, 1828-1876’ (illustrated essay by Gerald A. Danzer & James R. Akerman for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’; see also ’American Railroad Maps, 1873-2012’ by Gerald A. Danzer - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Railroads. 'Central Pacific Railroad Maps' (Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum)
• Railroad History Database Project (Adrian Ettlinger and Holly Hansen) {October 2000}
• Railroads. 'History of Railroads and Maps' (after Andrew M. Modelski; see the section homepage for other texts - Library of Congress, 'American Memory'). [Also here].
• Rand McNally. 'A Brief History of Rand McNally' (by Samuel John Klein, Designorati: Cartography 16 November 2005) {November, 2005}
• Relief. 'Lay of the land: relief representation in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part 1: the nineteenth century' (Norman J W Thrower - Mercator's World 6:3, 2001; Part 2 was not placed online) {May, 2001}
• 'Representing the Republic: Cartographic Discourses in the USA, 1865-1900' (illustrated commentary by John Rennie Short, 1997, on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #23) {November, 2006}
• Road maps. 'American Promotional Road Mapping in the Twentieth Century' (James R. Akerman, in 'Exploratory Essays Initiative: Twentieth-Century Cartography' (edited by Mark Monmonier and David Woodward) - pdf version of the chapter in the special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 29:3 (July 2002)) {September, 2003}
• + Road maps. ‘Footpath to Freeway: the Evolution of Michigan Roadmaps’ (commentary on a selection of maps - online exhibition from Michigan State University Libraries, 2007) {March, 2007}
• Road maps. 'Going Places?: Gender and Map Use in 20th-Century Road Map Art' (commentary by Christina Dando, 1997, on six maps [not reproduced] - Newberry Library Slide Set #33) {November, 2006}
• Road maps. 'Gousha and National Survey Gifts Enlarge the Newberry’s Holdings of American Road Maps' (James Akerman in Mapline, 96 (Spring 2003), 1-4) {July, 2005}
• Road maps. 'Guide to Clason Road Map and Atlases' (so far just: 'Part 1: Dating Clason State Road Maps 1923-1931, an Overview' - Michigan State University Libraries) {May, 2012}
• + Road maps. 'Hitting the road: Road Maps From the Map Collection of Yale University Library' {November 2000}
• Road maps. 'The Maps of 66: How Road Maps Built an American Legend' (illustrated web presentation by Lucinda Hannington about the road from Chicago to Los Angeles - Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, June 2011; see also the lesson plan for 9th-12th students) {June, 2011; amended November 2011}
• Road maps - see Web Articles - Themes, under 'Road maps'
• ‘Satirical cartography: a century of American humor in twisted maps’ (Strange Maps, 19 April 2022)
• Slavery. 'How a Map Divided Virginia' (an opinion piece by Susan Schulten in the New York Times, 5 May 2011, about the US Coast Survey's 1861 map of Virginia 'Showing the Distribution of its Slave Population', illustrated with enlargeable maps) {December, 2012}
• Slavery. 'Mapping the Cotton Kingdom' (an opinion piece by Susan Schulten in the New York Times, 28 September 2011, about Frederick Law Olmsted's 1861 map of the southern USA, making the economic argument against slavery) {December, 2012}
• Soils (select 'Soils.enl' for a database, searchable by keyword, of soil maps published prior to 1950 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook's nationwide collection - compiled by Jessica McEachern under the supervision of David Allen) {December, 2002}
• ‘State and Federal Mapping of Infrastructure and Movement’ (illustrated essay by Susan Schulten for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Statistical. 'National Atlases: Presenting the Nation's Cultural Geography (1870, 1880, 1890, 1970)' - see also Statistical Atlases {August, 2010}
• Surveying (a series of online articles in Backsights - Surveyors Historical Society) {March, 2006}
• 'Surveying History' (an index of historical articles from the American Surveyor, each with a link to the full illustrated version in pdf form) {August, 2008}
• Surveying Professional Surveyor Magazine (since March 1996, the monthly magazine has included a 'History Corner', usually featuring a United States subject) {January, 2006}
• Surveying. 'A Civilian Surveyor on the United States-Mexico Boundary: The Case of Arthur Schott' (by Paula Rebert in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 155 (2011): 433-462) {July, 2012}
• Surveying. 'Measure of history: Survey retraces 130-year-old steps to chart Pikes Peak property' (about the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's search for stones marking 19th century land survey boundaries, by Jason Blevins in the Denver Post, 5 July 2010) {July, 2010}
• Surveying. ‘Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones’ (an illustrated note by Tim St. Onge on the Library of Congress Maps blog, 17 May 2017) {May, 2017}
• Surveying. 'Renaissance Survey Techniques and the Mapping of Raleigh's Virginia' (commentary by Michael G. Moran, 1990, on six slides - Newberry Library Slide Set #19) {April, 2006}
• Surveying. 'Rendezvous 2007: Celebrating the Most Renowned American Surveyor' (account of a meeting at Washington's birthplace in September 2007, by C. Barton Crattie, The American Surveyor, January 2008) {January, 2008}
• Surveying. 'The Triumph of Geometry over Geography' (Norman J.W. Thrower - Mercator's World, 7:4, 2002) {July, 2002}
• + Symbol. ‘Highlights from the Fondersmith Collection of Cartographic Ephemera’ (‘Iconic America: The United States Map as a National Symbol’, an exhibition at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine, September 2012-February 2013) {November, 2017}
• Thematic maps. 'Mapping the Nation' (a blog, started in June 2012, mostly focusing on thematic maps of the USA, by Susan Schulten) {March, 2013}
• Timelines. 'Raisz’s History of American Cartography Timelines' (providing links, for educational purposes, to Raisz's 1937 timecharts: 'Surveys & official maps' and 'Private cartography' - John Krygier's 'Making Maps: DIY Cartography' blog) {September, 2007}
• Topographical Engineers. From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846 1848 (the full text of the 345-page book (with appendixes) by Adrian George Traas, 1993 [see the Contents page] involving surveys in New Mexico and Mexico) {May, 2005}
• Topographical Engineers. 'A History of the U. S. Topographical Engineers, 1818-1863' (extracts from Henry P. Beers, 'A History of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, 1813-1863', The Military Engineer 34 (June 1942): pp. 287-91 & (July 1942): pp. 348-52) {April, 2011}
• Trails. ‘Maps of Trails and Roads of the Great West’ (illustrated essay by Dennis Reinhartz for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Transportation. 'International Public Transportation Ring' ("the largest WebRing for people who have sites dedicated to all forms of Public Mass Transportation ... buses and trams ... light rail, streetcars and trolleys ... subways and passenger rail") {June, 2008}
• Transportation. ‘Planning Transportation’ (illustrated essay by Joseph P. Schwieterman for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Transportation. 'Vintage Transit Map and Related Memorabilia Collection' (mostly New York, Cleveland and other US cities - Jeffrey Ornstein) {June, 2008}
• 'True North—And Why It Mattered in Eighteenth-Century America' (Deborah Jean Warner, Smithsonian Institution, in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 149,3 (2005) pp.372-85) {March, 2011}
• 'U.S. General Land Office Survey Plat Maps' (illustrated article by Deborah Kmetz, in: Exchange (newsletter published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical Society), 37, 3 (1995) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
• U.S.G.S. '130 Years of Topographic Mapping' (a sequence of pages on the Geological Survey's history) {October 2017}
• U.S.G.S. 'Towards the Automated Map Factory: Early Automation at the U.S. Geological Survey' (Patrick H. McHaffie, in 'Exploratory Essays Initiative: Twentieth-Century Cartography' (edited by Mark Monmonier and David Woodward) - pdf version of the chapter in the special issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 29:3 (July 2002)) {September, 2003}
• 'Views of the Borderlands: The Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1857-1859' (Paula Rebert, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 75-90) {November, 2005}
• War of 1812. ‘Mapping the War of 1812: A Preliminary Cartobibliography’ (David Y. Allen, February 2007) {February, 2007}
• ‘Waterway Cartography, Part I: The Mapping of North America's Internal Navigation Systems’ (illustrated essay by Gerald A. Danzer for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’; see also ’Waterways Cartography, Part II: Landmarks and Exemplars in North America’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• Washington. 'George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker' (Edward Redmond - Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division)
• 'Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way' (one of the 'Popular Cartography Exhibits' from the 2004 Reading Popular Cartography Seminar at the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {September, 2005}
• 'Zoom into Maps' ('Maps help us make sense of our world'; 'Analyzing a Map'; 'What can be learned from historic maps?' - introductory texts accompanying the Library of Congress's 'American Memory' site, illustrated with high resolution MrSID images). [Also here] {May, 2003}

United States (states and regions)

      + online exhibitions       * works with a theoretical (often literary) dimension

• United States - Alaska. 'Alaskan cartography influenced by Native mapmakers' (about Robert Cloud's discoveries of incorporations into the Coast Survey of Alaska map of 1869 of material from Native Americans, by Robert Woolsey, 26 September 2012) {July, 2015}
• United States - Alaska. 'The First Russian Voyage Around the World and Its Influence on the Exploration and Development of Russian America' (Alexey V. Postnikov, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 53-62) {November, 2005}
• United States – Alaska. ‘Fur Warden Sketches Map of Fortymile River Basin in Alaska’, 1917 (Laurie Moyer, National Archives, Text Message blog, 1 March 2016) {March, 2016}
• United States - Alaska. 'Learning from Each Other: On a History of Russian-Native Contacts in the Exploration and Mapping of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands (Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries)' (Alexei V. Postnikov & S.I. Vavilov, 2001) {February, 2003}
• United States – Arizona. ‘Historical Map Collections’ (University of Arizona Libraries Data Cooperative) {August, 2021}
• United States - Arizona. 'Index to maps appearing in Arizona Highways, 1925-1990' (Jack D Mount) {January, 2001}
• United States - Arizona. “The Integrity of the Soil”: Splitting the Southwest (illustrated post about a dispute between Arizona and New Mexico, by M. Amelia Raines, for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 1 September 2021) {August, 2021}
• United States – Arizona. ‘Scott Thybony's Canyon Commentary: The Map’ (about the ‘first printed map’ of the Canyon by Father Francisco Garces, 1777 – Knau Arizona Public Radio) {May, 2016}
• United States - California. 'California 49: Forty-nine maps of California from the sixteenth century to the present' (the first 24 of the illustrated notes, by various authors [the remainder to follow during 2013] - California Map Society, Occasional Paper No.6, ed. Warren Heckrotte & Julie Sweetkind, 1999) {January, 2013; updated September 2013}
• United States - California [as an island] [P. Rigsbee - with links to texts and images elsewhere] {October 2000}
• United States - California. 'California as an Island' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• United States - 'California as an island' (a brief, illustrated note by Chris Lane on the Antiques Print Blog, 15 June 2009) {June, 2009}
• United States - California. 'Dynamic mapping of urban regions: growth of the San Francisco/Sacramento region' (Cindy Bell, William Acevedo, Janis Taylor Buchanan)
• United States - California. 'Further comments on the "lost harbour" ' (reissue of an illustrated article by Helen Wallis in The Map Collector 49 (Winter 1989); about attempts to identify Sir Francis Drake's anchorage in 1579 along the north-west coast; with comments from Raymond Aker, Harry Sutcliffe, Capt John A. Wilson & Bob Ward - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• United States - California. 'Guide to the maps of private land grant cases of California' (text accompanying 1,862 images of about 1,450 MS maps, c.1840-92 - Online Archive of California; material on loan to the Bancroft Library) {July, 2005}
• United States - California. 'History of Geologic Maps of California' (brief illustrated notes based on those by Charles W. Jennings (1985)) {April, 2010}
• United States - California. 'Map Images & Stories' (brief descriptions of nine maps (1493-1849) relating to the state - California Map Society) {December, 2003}
• United States - California. 'The mapping of California as an island: an illustrated checklist' (the full text of the 182-page illustrated book by Glen McLaughlin, with Nancy H. Mayo, California Map Society Occasional Paper No. 5 (1995) - Stanford University Libraries) {February, 2011}
• United States - California. 'New Yosemite Nature Notes: Maps' (a 10-minute offical video, by Ken Burns, about the mapping of the Yosemite National Park) {June, 2009}
• United States - California. 'The Story of California as an Island' (introducing the recently acquired Glen McLaughlin Map Collection; with links to the full text and illustrations - Stanford University) {October, 2012}
• United States - California. 'Three Monuments, One Initial Point' (about the fixing by Col. Henry Washington of the Initial Point for all future cadastral surveys in southern California in 1852, by Michael A. Duffy, originally in the California Surveyor 135 (Sept. 2002)) {June, 2006}
• United States - California. ‘Union Map Catalog’ (a searchable catalogue of 'all of the available maps in the Huntington collection [about 8,000] with thumbnails (enlargeable) and short descriptions', covering California and the West, from the Huntington Library, Art Collection & Botanical Gardens, developed by Bill Warren and Mario Einaudi - California Map Society) {March, 2005; updated October 2006 and September 2013}
• United States - California. 'University of California Library Bulletin No. 9, List of printed Maps of California, Berkeley, 1887' (foreword by Alfred W. Newman, December 1992, 33 pages - reprinted as an occasional paper of the California Map Society) {June, 2011}
• United States - California. 'When California was an Island' (Rachael Myrow for KQED, 1 April 2013, with a link to an audio featuring Glen McLaughlin When Mapmakers Thought California Was an Island) {March, 2013}
• United States - Cape Fear. 'The charting of Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1525-1800 [12 entries] (Ashley Baynton-Williams - MapForum 6, July 1999)
• United States - Carolinas. 'Lederer’s Lake, Desert, and Savanna - An Early Exploration of Carolina' (an illustrated note by Kevin Brown of Geographicus Antique Maps - Articlesbase) {July, 2009}
• United States - Carolinas. 'Printed charts of the Carolinas' [lists 46 charts, 1648-1799] (MapForum 9, 2000)
• United States - Carolinas. 'Printed maps of the Carolinas: 1590-1800' [164 entries] (MapForum 4, April 1999)
• United States - Colorado. 'Hayden Survey maps inventory' (a listing, with sample illustrations, of the contents of the Geological and Geographical Atlas of Colorado and portions of adjacent territory, by F.V. Hayden, 1877 - Center of Southwest Studies) {May, 2005}
• United States - Colorado. 'Measure of history: Survey retraces 130-year-old steps to chart Pikes Peak property' (about the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's search for stones marking 19th century land survey boundaries, by Jason Blevins in the Denver Post, 5 July 2010) {July, 2010}
• United States - Colorado. 'Water Resource Archive' (follow the links to map resources - Colorado State University Libraries) {February, 2010}
• United States - Connecticut. 'Digital Collections of Historical Maps' (separate annotated lists of public collections offering online images, respectively for Connecticut, the USA and the rest of the world - University of Connecticut, University Libraries) {August, 2010}
• United States - Connecticut Highways: Historical Overview
• United States - Connecticut. 'Murder on the Map: The Mysterious Death of Captain George M. Colvocoresses' (a MS map produced in relation to the unsolved murder in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1872 - Tasha Caswell for ConnecticutHistory.org) {April, 2013}
• United States - Florida. 'Florida Historical Map Database' (very brief descriptions - searching for 'Florida' produced over 900 hits - University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries) {March, 2004}
• +United States - Florida. 'Florida, the Making of a State: a Cartographic Adventure' (46 entries in the Exhibition Checklist; see also texts about the discovery of Florida, etc., e.g. '"Marvellous countries and lands": Notable Maps of Florida, 1507-1846' (by Ralph Ehrenberg); 'Historical Data Concerning Florida'; 'The Gulf Stream' (by James C. Hobbs); and the Bibliography - exhibition, curated by James A. Findlay, January-March 2002, Bienes Center for the Literary Arts, Broward County Libraries Division (Ft. Lauderdale)) {August, 2002}
• + United States – Florida. ‘The Florida Story, 1513-1783’ (a 2013 exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library) {February, 2022}
• United States - Florida. Ives's Memoir, 1856 (the 9-page 'Memoir to accompany a military map of the peninsula of Florida, south of Tampa Bay, compiled by Lieut. J.C. Ives, Topogl.Engineers'; accompanied by a 'locator' map of 1891-5) {August, 2005}
• United States - Florida. 'Manuscript Maps of Miami and South Florida, 1895-1907' (descriptions of 79 maps, mostly surveys of the Florida Keys for the Florida East Coast Railway - HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center) {May, 2011}
• United States - Florida. 'Navigating Fisheating Creek' (Louis de Vorsey - Mercator's World 7:5, 2002) {September, 2002}
• United States - Florida. 'The Robert Rogers map collection, 1594-1967' (descriptions of 300 maps, mostly 19th century, of or including Florida - HistoryMiami Archives & Research Center) {May, 2011}
• United States – Franklin. ‘Carto-Bibliography of Engraved Maps Depicting the State of Franklin’ (by Eliane Dotson, Old World Auctions & Kenneth Baker, about the proposed name for an area usually coinciding with Tennessee; illustrated with the full map and a detail of each, 10 January 2018) {January, 2018}
• United States - Georgia. 'The Indian Trails Project' (text and a selection of map scans, mostly about the Cherokee Nation in northern Georgia) {January, 2008}
• United States - Georgia. ‘Indian Trails’ (article by Louis DeVorsey in The New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2003) {March, 2005}
• United States - Georgia. ‘Lines that Fracture and Fade: Two Centuries of Travel through Georgia, 1775-1976’ (illustrated essay by Robert Paulett for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• United States - Georgia - Savannah. 'A land of new beginnings: James Edward Oglethorpe's map of an American Utopia' (Louis de Vorsey - Mercator's World 7:3, 2002) {April, 2002}
• United States - Great Lakes, see under North America
• United States - Gulf Coast. 'El Golfo de Mexico: Sixteenth & Eighteenth Century Views of the America's Sea' (illustrated commentary by Margaret Villanueva, 1997, on six MS maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #26) {November, 2006}
• United States - Gulf states: look for the individual state name and also under Mexico, Central & South America
• United States - Hawai'i see under Australia and Oceania
• United States – Illinois. ‘Celebrating Illinois’ Bicentennial’ (issue Number 128 | Spring 2018 of the online Mapline includes several illustrated articles relating to the mapping of Illinois – Newberry Library) {August, 2018}
• United States - Illinois - Chicago (the 'Chicago Region Map Collection (Newberry Library)' includes over 750 items described as part of the 'Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog')
• United States - Illinois - Chicago. 'Encyclopedia of Chicago' (the entries relating to 'maps', reproducing several maps; see also the note on the Burnham Plan of 1909 - Chicago Historical Society) {September, 2007}
• United States – Illinois – Chicago. ‘Etymology of Chicago and the River od De Soto’ (an illustrated 11-page note by Carl J. Weber (2019)) {April, 2020}
• United States - Illinois - Chicago. 'Florence Kelley: Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893' (about Chicago, by Nina Brown, for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) {March, 2008}
• United States - Illinois - Chicago. 'Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis' (a series of illustrated essays about the 'Plan of Chicago', published in 1909 by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett - Newberry Library and others) {January, 2016}
• United States - Illinois - Chicago. 'Make Big Plans: Daniel Burnham's Vision of an American Metropolis' (an online and photo panel exhibit by the Newberry Library in collaboration with the Burnham Plan Centennial, 2009, reproducing a number of the plans) {August, 2009}
• United States - Illinois - Chicago. ‘Mapping Chicago - Making Chicago' (Slide Set #34: commentaryby Robert R. Churchill, including six, low resolution maps - Newberry Library, 2002) {September, 2004}
• United States – Illinois - Chicago. ‘Mapping the Gangs of Chicago’ (an illustrated note by Meagan Snow for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 29 July 2022 {July, 2022}
• United States - 'Indiana County Maps, Atlases, and Plat Books' (a list of "an extensive collection of maps, atlases, and plat books of Indiana counties" - Indiana State Library) {August, 2010}
• United States - Indiana. 'Union List of Sanborn Maps' (c. 1,300 maps, running to c. 13,000 sheets (1883 and 1905), covering 305 cities and towns in 91 Indiana counties - Indiana University) {December, 2007}
• * United States - Iowa. 'Romantic and Modernist Images on Twentieth Century Iowa Official State Highway Maps' (Slide Set #28: commentary by Daniel Block, 2002 - Newberry Library) {December, 2002}
• United States - Kansas. 'A Collection of Digitized Kansas Maps' (with a link also to a collection of 'non-digitized' maps - Wichita State University Libraries, Department of Special Collections) {May, 2003}
• United States - Kentucky. 'The Filson map re-examined' (reissue of an illustrated article by Kenneth Nebenzahl in The Map Collector 56 (Autumn 1991) - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• United States - Louisiana. '1682-1803: French Louisiana' (an over-elaborate site but with useful information about 'Resources' - also in French - Gilles-Antoine Langlois, for the French ministry of culture) {January, 2004}
• United States - Louisiana. 'Boundary work below Natchez open doors for John Peter Walker' (2- part article about the early 19th-century surveyor, by Stanley Nelson - for the second, see 'John Peter Walker -- Natchez/Concordia land surveyor -- exiled in Spain' (Concordia Sentinel, 8 & 15 May 2008) {June, 2008}
• United States - 'Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase' (leading to an illustrated 118-page PDF essay by Michael Klein; covering 'the region of North America that stretched from as far east as Alabama into what is now the state of Montana' - Library of Congress, American Memory) {September, 2007}
• United States - Louisiana. ‘Finding Louisiana: La Salle’s Encounter with the Mississippi River Delta plain’ (by Christopher Morris, in: Terrae Incognitae 36 (2004), 28-41 - illustrated with map details) {December, 2004}
• United States - Louisiana. ‘The maps of Dumont de Montigny’ (‘An exploration of one cartographer’s work mapping French colonial sites in Louisiana’ [1747] – a note from the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 19 June 2021) {June, 2021}
• + United States - Louisiana. 'Maps of Louisiana and the New World' (online illustrated exhibition from Louisiana State Museum) {December, 2012}
• United States - Louisiana. 'A Newly Discovered Map by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz' (Gordon Sayre in Common-Place 9, 4 (July 2009)) {March, 2010}
• + United States - Louisiana. 'So Much More Than Just a Map - Perspectives on Louisiana and the New World' (arranged under seven thematic headings - Louisiana State Museum] {October 2000}
• United States - Maine. 'The Border Dispute: How the Maine-New Brunswick border was finalized' (illustrated article of the events leading up to the 1842 settlement of the US/Canada boundary by C. Gagnon, 2004) {May, 2005}
• + United States - Maine. 'Maine Wilderness Transformed: Timber, Sporting, and Exploitation of the Moosehead Lake Region' ( Matthew H. Edney, 1997 - Osher Map Library exhibition) {October 2000}
• United States - Maine. 'Manuscript maps that were assembled by Egbert Benson and sent in 1802 to Rufus King, United States minister to Great Britain' ('in order to facilitate negotiations over disputed international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick'; four maps with accompanying texts - Library of Congress) {July, 2010}
• + United States – Maine. ‘Mapping Maine: The Land and its Peoples, 1677–1842’ (an exhibition at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, September 2020-March 2021 – click on ‘Exhibit Navigation’ to access the seven sections) {December, 2020}
• + United States – Maine. ’Maps and firsthand accounts of the Northeast boundary dispute‘ (online exhibition, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• + United States - Maine. 'Printed Maps of the District and State of Maine 1793-1860' (exhibition, curated by Edward V. Thompson, illustrated with a range of maps - Osher Map Library, Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine, March-August 2011) {March, 2011}
• + United States – Maine. ’References to the Fore! Local Boosters, Historians, and Engineers Map Antebellum Portland, Maine‘ (online exhibition, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• + United States - Maine - Portland. 'The Changing Peninsula: Two Centuries of Portland Maps and City Views' (descriptions and images from an exhibition at the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine, 2005-6) {January, 2006; amended November 2011}
• United States - Maryland. 'The Huntingfield Map Collection' (specialising in the Chesapeake Bay area; select Cartographer or Title index - Maryland State Archives, Special Collections) {February, 2003}
• United States - Maryland. 'Maryland Maps: A Finding Aid' (University Libraries, University of Maryland). [See also here] {July 2017}
• United States - Maryland. 'Maps, Plats, and Charts: An Illustrated History of the Cartography and Cartographers of Maryland' (Edward C. Papenfuse, 2000 - NB password (free) has to be obtained for access)
• United States - Maryland. 'Putting Maryland on the Map' (course notes by Edward C. Papenfuse) {February, 2006}
• United States - Maryland State Archives Map Collections (select Cartographer or Title index) {February, 2003}
• United States - Massachusetts. 'Mapping Massachusetts, 1600-1750' (also a second part, 1750-1801, in two undated issues of the Boston Rare Maps Newsletter) {August, 2010}
• United States - Massachusetts. 'The State Library Historic Map Collection' (click on the link for a 'list of results from a search in the State Library’s catalog for the words map, atlas, plan; the collection holds '430 atlases and 3400 maps'; see also the index to their holding of Sanborn maps - State Library of Massachusetts) {June, 2009}
• United States – Massachusetts. ‘Surveying all of Massachusetts in the town plans collections’ (‘Two digital collections from the Massachusetts Archives capture the micro-scaled geographies of Massachusetts towns in the Early Republic period’) {September, 2022}
• + United States – Massachusetts - Boston. ‘Breathing Room: Mapping Boston's Green Spaces’ (enlargeable images with captions; exhibition curated by Dory Klein at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library, March-September 2018) {January, 2019}
• + United States – Massachusetts – Boston. Building Boston, Shaping Shorelines (‘a Harvard Map Collection exhibition about the projects to reclaim land and build the infrastructure that produced a city out of a peninsula’) {March, 2020}
• United States – Massachusetts – Boston. ‘The Emergence of the Sewage System: Boston’s Growth in the 1870s’ (Charlotte Lellman, for the Messenger blog, 7 March 2018 - illustrated with maps of 1874 & 1875 from the Leventhal Map Center) {March, 2018}
• United States – Massachusetts – Boston. ‘A new view into urban renewal in Boston’ (‘Announcing 124 newly-digitized objects from the Boston Redevelopment Authority Collection’; by Garrett Dash Nelson and Lauren Chen, Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library 28 January 2021) {January, 2021}
• United States - Massachusetts - Boston. 'Putting Boston on the Map: Land Reclamation and the Growth of a City' (a brief illustrated note by Tim St. Onge for the Library of Congress blog, 14 December 2015) {February, 2016}
• United States – Massachusetts – Martha’s Vineyard. ‘Historical Maps’ (a good selection of images of north-east America, focusing on Martha’s Vineyard, with accompanying commentary taken from various sources – Martha’s Vineyard: a meeting of land and sea, 2016) {March, 2019}
• + United States - Michigan. ‘Footpath to Freeway: the Evolution of Michigan Roadmaps’ (commentary on a selection of maps - online exhibition from Michigan State University Libraries, 2007) {March, 2007}
• United States - Michigan. Key Dates in Michigan Transportation Map History (Michigan Department of Transportation)
• United States - Michigan. 'Mapping Michigan' (divided into: Exploring the Great Lakes, Maps of Ownership, Transportation - Maps, with a few illustrations - Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University) {March, 2014}
• United States - Michigan. ‘Orange Risdon's Map of 1825’ (a partial scan, with links about the surveyor and his map of southeastern Michigan - Pittsfield Township Historical Society) {February, 2005}
• United States - Michigan. 'Surveying Michigan's Land - Part 1: The Northwest Ordinance created the building blocks for modern-day Michigan' (John Willyard, on Farmington- FarmingtonHillsPatch, 25 December 2010; there seems to have been a Part 2, but this could not be traced) {January, 2011; updated March 2017}
• United States – Middle Atlantic. ‘Bellin's Small Map of the Mid-Atlantic and Chesapeake Bay’ (a short carto-bibliography of the five different plates used, by Eliane Dotson, Old World Auctions, 13 December 2016) {December, 2016}
• United States. Middle Atlantic. 'Fry and Jefferson revisited' (an illustrated article about the 1753 'Map of the Inhabited Part of Virginia, containing the whole of the Province of Maryland with Part of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and North Carolina' by Henry Taliaferro, in Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, vol. 34) {November, 2013}
• United States – Midwest. ‘Early Maps of the American Midwest and Great Lakes’ (a major research source with in-depth information on a wide range of relevant topics and bibliographical entries with image links to a large collection of maps from the 17th-18th centuries; the documents were compiled by Vincas P. Steponaitis for the Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA)) {August, 2023}
• United States - Minnesota. 'Selected Historic Minnesota Collections' (lists of maps of Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Minnesota - John R. Borchert Map Library, University of Minnesota; which site see for Minnesota in general) {February, 2010}
• United States - Mississippi. ‘Early Maps of Colonial Natchez’ (a collection of early maps and drawings that pertain to the early European and Indian settlements in the vicinity of Natchez, Mississippi, prior to 1800; the documents were compiled by Vincas P. Steponaitis for the Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA)) {August, 2023}
• United States - Mississippi River. ‘This 11-Foot ‘Ribbon Map’ Puts the Whole Mississippi River in Your Pocket’ (‘steamboat tourists of the late 1860s wrapped it around a spool’; an illustrated note by Cara Giaimo, 7 May 2018) {May, 2018}
• United States - Mississippi. 'John Law and the Mississippi Scheme' (MapForum 5, May 1999) [see also 'Oddities: The Isle of Mad-Head' in the same issue]
• United States – Missouri. ‘Map discovery reveals American “hero” William Clark broke peace treaty’ (about the ‘Map of Extent of Settlement in Mississippi Valley’ (1816), which “dispossessed the Sauks, Meskwakis, and Iowas of a huge tract of land to hasten settler supremacy” – Missoula Current, 5 February 2022) {February, 2022}
• United States – Missouri. ‘St. Louis Genealogical Society: Maps’ (links and a brief bibliography) {March, 2017}
• United States - Missouri River. 'Brief Bibliography of early Missouri River cartographic sources' (W. Raymond Wood, University of Missouri - part of the Placename Survey of the United States) {December, 2001}
• United States - Nevada. 'Robert C. Speed Geologic Map Collection now online' (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology) {June, 2011}
• United States - New England. A bibliography of reference materials (Sharon Rodgers, for the Atlantic History Seminar 1999) {September, 2003}
• + United States - New England.The Cartographic Creation of New England (Matthew H. Edney - Osher Map Library exhibition, 1996-7 [formerly: http://usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibition/2/home])
• United States - New England. 'The charting of New England' [with a checklist of 102 items, 1646-1785] (Ashley Bayton-Williams - MapForum 2, February 1999)
• United States - New England. ‘French Mapping of New York and New England, 1604-1760’ (David Y. Allen in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association , ser. A, no.1 (January 31, 2005)) {February, 2005}
• United States - New England. 'Henry F. Walling and the Mapping of New England’s Towns, 1849–1857' (an illustrated article by Michael Buehler in The Portolan 71 (Spring 2008) pp.22-33) {August, 2010}
• United States - 'New England Historic and Placename Directory' (containing over 100,000 names - Broer Map Library) {January, 2013}
• United States - New England. 'Mapping Colonial New England: Looking at the Landscape of New England' (a lesson plan, using scans of a range of early maps from different collections for historical exercises - National Endowment for the Humanities) {December, 2007}
• * United States – New England. ’The materiality of maps’ (a well-illustrated presentation by Matthew Edney to the Rare Books School, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 23 July 2018; with main headings: William Hubbard’s map of New-England (1677), Variant discourses in the early mapping of New England, Implications for a processual approach to mapping) {August, 2018}
• United States - New England. 'Printed Maps of New England to 1780. Part I: 1548-1624; Part II: 1630-1660' (MapForum 13 [September 2001]) {September, 2001}; Part III: 1670-1700 (MapForum 14 [February 2002]) {February, 2002}; Part IV: 1700-1780 (MapForum 15 [April 2002]) {April, 2002}
• United States - New England Prospect: An Innovative Map Exhibition from 1980’ (about an exhibition in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1980 - Matthew Edney in his ‘Mapping as Process’ blog, 19 March 2023) {May, 2023}
• United States – New England. ‘William Hack and the Description of New England’ (Richard Boulind, in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Sibley’s Heir, Vol.59 (1981) pp.61-144, with 8 illustrations) {May, 2020}
• United States – New Hampshire. ‘About the Historic USGS Maps’ (University of New Hampshire) {February, 2017}
• United States - New Hampshire. 'Conflict on the Connecticut' (Alec McEwen - Mercator's World 6:5, 2001 - about the Republic of Indian Stream, in an area claimed by both the US and Canada) {September, 2001}
• United States - New Jersey. 'Historical Maps of New Jersey' (a gateway site, with a good selection of maps and atlases - Rutgers University)
• + United States – New Jersey. ‘Nova Cæsarea: A Cartographic Record of the Garden State, 1666-1888’ (a good range of enlargeable maps with commentary; an online exhibition from Princeton University Library, 2014) {May, 2018}
• United States - New Jersey. 'Proprietors & Adventurers: A Rediscovery of Colonial New Jersey' (the 'Images of Selected Documents' include five maps, three in MS; with associated documents - New Jersey State Archives) {December, 2007}
• United States - New Mexico. 'Cibola: A Tale of Estebanico, Coronodo, and the Seven Cities of Gold' (tracing a pre-columbian legend, now reflected in a New Mexico place-name - an illustrated note by Kevin Brown on the Geographicus blog, 28 September 2009) {September, 2009}
• United States - New Mexico. From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846 1848 (the full text of the 345-page book (with appendixes) by Adrian George Traas, 1993 [see the Contents page] involving surveys in New Mexico and Mexico) {May, 2005}
• United States – New Mexico. “The Integrity of the Soil”: Splitting the Southwest (illustrated post about a dispute between Arizona and New Mexico, by M. Amelia Raines, for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 1 September 2021) {August, 2021}
• United States - New Mexico. 'Teguayo, Great Salt Lake, and Atzlatan' (about the legendary lake shown from the mid-17th century - Kevin Brown, Geographicus blog, 29 August 2010) {August, 2010}
• United States - New York City. ‘A Digital Map of Historical New York Offers an Extraordinary Level of Detail’ (about Mapping Historical New York. A Digital Atlas; an illustrated note by Shannon Werle for Columbia News, 7 December 2021) {December, 2021}
• United States - New York City. 'Early Real Estate Insurance Maps of New York' (search or browse 200 maps of Manhattan and Brooklyn, 1850s-60s - New York Public Library 'Digital Gallery') {January, 2006}
• United States - New York City. 'From van der Donck to Visscher: a 1648 view of New Amsterdam' (Joep M J de Koning - Mercator's World 5:4, 2000)
• United States - New York City. 'A Guide to Former Street Names in Manhattan' (identifying 'more than 1,600 old names of streets and other urban features that are no longer on the map' - Gilbert Tauber [on the New York Map Society site]) {September, 2007}
• United States - New York City. 'The Hagstrom Map Company Publication Code' (the publication date code explained - Gregory J. Christiano) {March, 2004}
• United States - New York City. 'The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909' (the full text of volume 2, the one devoted to cartography (of the six-volume set of the celebrated work by I.N. Phelps Stokes, 1915-28) including the reproductions [for the other five volumes change the '002' in the URL to, 001, 003, etc.] - Columbia University Libraries - E-Books) {April, 2009}
• United States – New York City. Land auction. ‘Absolute Sale! NYC Land Auction Catalogs in the Map Division’ (illustrated note by Kate Cordes, New York Public Library, 20 November 2014) {January, 2017}
• United States – New York City. ‘Mapping Local and Commuter Rail Transit in NYC’ (a research guide from the New York Public Library's Map Division) {October, 2023}
• United States – New York City. ‘Maps in the Gap: Discovering The Map Division’s Dictionary Catalog, Now Online’ (Nancy Kandoian, 1 June 2018) {June, 2018}
• United States – New York City. ‘NYC Rapid Transit in Maps, 1845-1921: The Street Railroads of New York and Vicinity’ (an illustrated note by Artis Q. Wright, for the New York Public Library blog, 3 April 2015) {April, 2020}
• United States - New York State Historical Maps (David Yehling Allen)
• United States - New York State. 'Angouleme, The First European Name for New York' (an illustrated study by Fredric Shauger, 2008 - New York Map Society) {December, 2008}
• United States - New York State. 'Annotated Bibliography of Selected New York State Maps: 1793-1900' (Jo Margaret Mano)
• United States - New York State. Bibliographies from Stony Brook University (click the 'Advanced Search' banner for access to a series of bibliographies searchable by keyword, with numerous links to digital images, see: 2. nysmaps.enl - 'a fairly comprehensive bibliography of New York State Maps produced before 1830' [David Allen]; 3. Specmaps.enl - 'a list of New York State maps in the Dept. of Special Collections at Stony Brook University. Approximately 1700 maps, mostly published between 1830 and 1940' [David Allen with additions and revisions by Kristen Nyitray]; 4. Digimaps.enl - 'database with links to digital images of New York State Maps on the Web. Searchable version of Map Collection's "New York State Map Pathfinder"' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]; 5. Docmaps.enl - '2,196 maps from New York State legislative documents prior to 1940' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]; 6. Soils.enl - '1,492 soil maps published prior to 1950 from Stony Brook's nationwide collection' [Jessica McEachern under supervision of David Allen]). {December, 2002}
• United States - New York State. 'Comparing Eighteenth-Century Maps of NY State Using Digital Imagery' (an article by David Allen, two of whose illustrations are partly interactive - New York Map Society) {September, 2007}
• United States - New York State. ‘French Mapping of New York and New England, 1604-1760’ (David Y. Allen in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association , ser. A, no.1 (January 31, 2005)) {February, 2005}
• United States - New York State. 'How Simeon de Witt mapped New York State' (an illustrated article by David Y. Allen about the 1802 map - New York Map Society, September 2008; a continuation of < http://www.newyorkmapsociety.org/FEATURES/ALLEN.HTM > 'Comparing Eighteenth-Century Maps of NY State Using Digital Imagery') {September, 2008}
• United States - New York State. 'Long Island maps and their makers' - with links to 'Bibliography of Long Island Geology and Hydrology' and 'Long Island Cartobibliography' (David Yehling Allen)
• United States - New York State. 'The Mapping of New York State: A Study in the History of Cartography' (an entire online book in 14 chapters (defined chronologically or thematically), from 1500 to the present, with extensive footnotes, links to online illustrations, and a comprehensive bibliography, by David Yehling Allen, 2011 - a work in progress) {April, 2011}
• + United States - New York State - Saratoga Springs. 'Mapping a City: Saratoga Springs Through 250 Years of Maps' (text and illustrations to an exhibition at Skidmore College, curated by Jordana Dym, 2015, celebrating its centenary as a city - see also 250 Years in 16 Maps) {April, 2015}
• United States – North Carolina. ‘The 1585 Circumnavigation of Pamlico Sound’ (by Kevin Duffus, for the Coastal Review Online, 7 July 2020) {August, 2020}
• United States - North Carolina. 'Anniversary of the Mouzon-Delarochette map of the Carolinas' (an illustrated article from the William P. Cumming Map Society, 30 May 2015) {January, 2016}
• United States. 'North Carolina History: A Sampler. Working with maps' (seven maps relating to different aspects of North Carolina history, with accompanying lesson materials - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) {May, 2010}
• United States - North Carolina Map Blog (a cartographic history blog, started August 2012, run by the William P. Cumming Map Society) {October, 2012}
• United States - North Carolina. 'A New and Correct Map of the Province of North Carolina: The Discovery of a 1737 North Carolina Manuscript Map' (by Mike McNamara, Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, 33 (2012); about the map by John Cowley) {May, 2012}
• United States - North Carolina. 'Reflecting on the [1807] Price-Strother Map of North Carolina: An Uncommon Exercise for an Uncommon Map' (illustrated article by Jay Lester in the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Vol.35 (2014)'; see also North Carolina Map Blog, 13 August 2014) {August, 2014}
• United States - North Carolina. 'State Library of North Carolina. Digital Repository' (an 'advanced search' on 'historical maps' (in the 'Description') retrieved 123 separate websites) {February, 2010}
• United States - North Carolina, see also under 'Carolinas' above
• United States - Northwest. 'Further comments on the "lost harbour" ' (reissue of an illustrated article by Helen Wallis in The Map Collector 49 (Winter 1989); about attempts to identify Sir Francis Drake's anchorage in 1579 along the north-west coast; with comments from Raymond Aker, Harry Sutcliffe, Capt John A. Wilson & Bob Ward - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• United States - Ohio. 'Of Land Ordinances and Liberia: Maps as tools of early American territorial expansion' ('a comparative study of how the Ohio territory and the nation of Liberia were mapped and settled in the late 18th and early 19th centuries', illustrated pdf article by Michael Kimaid, in: e-Perimetron, 3:4 (2008), pp. 225-42) {March, 2009}
• United States - Ohio - Cleveland. 'A brief history of city directory maps of Cleveland, Ohio' (William Barrow) {January, 2002}
• United States - Ohio - Cleveland. ‘Cleveland Cartography’ ("Information about historical and contemporary maps and map-related happenings in and about Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of northeastern Ohio", including ‘History (of local maps)’ - William C. Barrow, Cleveland State University Library) {October, 2004}
• United States - Ohio - Cleveland. 'The original surveys of Cleveland' (Samuel J Baker, 1884 [sic])
• United States - Ohio - Cleveland (David Brose: 'Explorations' from Encyclopedia of Cleveland History {December 2000}
• United States – Ohio - Toledo. ‘If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Forget Toledo‘ (an illustrated article about the so-called ‘Toledo War’ between Ohio and Michigan, by Amelia Raines, for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 1 September 2022) {September, 2022}
• United States – Oregon. ‘Bungled Borders in the Pacific Northwest’ (the first of a 2-part post by Tim St. Onge on the Oregon Treaty of 1846 – Library of Congress Maps blog, 13 June 2016) {June, 2016}
• United States - 'Oregon Department of Transportation City Maps' (finding aid from the Library of Congress) {December, 2009}
• United States - Oregon. 'Did this 1715 Map Influence the First Appearance of the Name “Oregon”?' (about the map found in the 1715 French edition of Lahontan's travels - Kevin Brown on the Geographicus Antique Map Blog, 7 June 2012) {June, 2012}
• United States - Oregon. 'Glimpses of Pioneer Life: the survey plat and the Government Land Office in Oregon' (James V. Walker - Mercator's World, 7:2, 2002) {March, 2002}
• United States – Pennsylvania. ‘1777 Chester County Property Atlas’ (follow the link to ‘an interactive map that allows researchers to easily see who owned properties in 1777’ - Times of Chester County, 14 September 2020) {November, 2020}
• United States – Pennsylvania. ‘Cartobibliography of Pennsylvania Maps Prior to 1800’ (by John W. Docktor, 2006, divided between maps in the Library of Congress and elsewhere) {June, 2019}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Descriptive List of the Map Collection: Manuscript Group 11' (brief descriptions of 953 items in 8 categories, reproducing and supplementing: Martha L. Simonetti, Descriptive List of the Map Collection in the Pennsylvania State Archives {click on the title to access the listing} (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1976) - Pennsylvania State Archives) {August, 2002}
• United States. 'Pennsylvania in early pocket maps' (a useful introductory note to illustrations of folding travel maps, produced by Pennsylvania publishers or covering that state - Harold Cramer) {January, 2011}
• United States - Pennsylvania. Historical Maps of Pennsylvania (select 'Articles' and 'References for historical maps of Pennsylvania' - Harold Cramer) {August, 2002 - updated February 2004}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Mapping the Main Line' (11-page, pdf, history of the Franklin Survey Company (after 1986 named Franklin Maps) first in Philadelphia, then King of Prussia, by the founder's son, Andrew H. Amsterdam - Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society History Quarterly42 (2005)) {March, 2009}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Mapping Pennsylvania' (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Legacies 9,2 (November 2009) - the entire semi-annual issue focuses on maps) {December, 2009}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Pennsylvania in Old Road Atlases' (an introduction by Harold Kramer to a large range of images from 1889) {April, 2009}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Philadelphia Historic Streets Index' (from 1858 - City of Philadelphia Department of Records) {April, 2013}
• United States - Pennsylvania. 'Record Groups' (Pennsylvania State Archives - providing details of some classes relating to cartography, especially No. 17) {August, 2002}
• United States – Pennsylvania. ‘Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps’ (‘Penn State University Maps Library has a near complete collection of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps for the state of Pennsylvania’) {March, 2018}
• United States - Rhode Island. 'Rhode Island Historical Society' (select 'Library: NETOP'; a search in the 'NETworked Online Public catalog' for 'Object type', 'map' found 2,542 entries, evidently without images). [Also here] {January, 2008}
• United States - South. 'The Changing Mexico-U.S. Border' (a brief illustrated note about events from 1819 onwards - Carlyn Osborn for the Library of Congress blog, 18 December 2015) {February, 2016}
• United States – South. ‘Early Maps of the American South’ (a major research source with in-depth information on a wide range of relevant topics and links to a large collection of maps from the 16th-18th centuries; the documents on this site were compiled by Vincas P. Steponaitis for the Research Laboratories of Archaeology (RLA)) {August, 2023}
• United States. South. 'Precedents of the 19th century cartography of the coasts of Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas: Spanish, English and French maps and charts, 1500-1800' (a paper by P. Chias & T. Abad at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• United States - South. 'Rare Spanish manuscript map showing the western borders of the Louisiana Purchase arrives at the Library of Congress' (an illustrated note on Father José Antonio Pichardo's 1811 map of Spanish Texas, Louisiana Territory, and the Trans-Mississippi West, by Anthony Páez Mullan for the Library of Congress blog, 25 February 2016) {February, 2016}
• United States - South Carolina. 'Anniversary of the Mouzon-Delarochette map of the Carolinas' (an illustrated article from the William P. Cumming Map Society, 30 May 2015) {January, 2016}
• United States – South Carolina. ‘Irving Geis [1908-1997]: of molecules and maps’ (an illustrated biography of the creator of three ‘”Hysterical” Maps of South Carolina’, 1932-4) {December, 2019}
• United States - South Carolina. 'Surveying practices in early South Carolina' (by Louise Pettus in Backsights) {March, 2006}
• United States - South Carolina, see also under 'Carolinas' above
• United States - Southeast. 'The 1606 Mercator / Hondius Map of the American Southeast' (a description of the Virginia & Florida map, by Kevin Brown on the Geographicus Antique Map blog, 28 June 2011) {June, 2011}
• United States - Southeast. 'Checklist of printed maps of the South-East of America' [1548-1798 - 82 items] (MapForum 7, September 1999)
• United States - Southeast. 'Non-existent lake in the American Southeast' (Philadelphia Print Shop) {November, 2001}
• + United States - Southwest. 'Maps of the Pimería: early cartography of the Southwest' [University of Arizona Library - Jack Mount] {October 2000}
• United States - Southwest. 'Soldier, Scientist, Map Maker: William H. Emory and the mapping of the American Southwest' (Norman J. Thrower - Mercator's World 7:6, 2002) {November, 2002}
• United States – Tennessee. ’Map Collection and Online Resources: Tennessee Map Resources’ (University of Tennessee Knoxville) {July, 2017}
• United States - Texas. 'Bird’s-Eye Views: A Brief History' (an illustrated essay by Ron Tyler accompanying the 'Texas Bird's-Eye Views' site - Amon Carter Museum) {July, 2005}
• United States - Texas. Fort Worth. Texas Christian University (a 33- page pdf annotated checklist of the maps in the George T. Abell collection, held in the Mary Couts Burnett Library) {July, 2009}
• United States - Texas. 'The handbook of Texas online' (searchable encyclopedia [enter, e.g. 'map', 'cartography'], including a brief section entitled 'Maps' {November, 2001}
• United States - Texas. 'The Maps of Stephen F. Austin: An Illustrated Essay of the Early Cartography of Texas' (a 30-page illustrated monograph by Dennis Reinhartz, Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication No.8, 2015) {November, 2015}
• United States - Texas. 'Spanish mapping of Texas' (Robert S. Weddle in Handbook of Texas Online) {May, 2005}
• United State - Texas. Texas General Land Office Map Collection (searchable database of 72,003 records [July 2002], with option to 'Display only maps with image available') {July, 2002}
• United States - Utah. 'Maps database' (a searchable list of maps and air photos, mostly 20th century, including Sanborn Fire Insurance maps - Utah State History) {July, 2009}
• United States – ‘Utah Drawn: An Exhibition of Rare Maps’ (samples from an exhibition (from January 2017) in the Utah Capitol Building) {January, 2017}
• +United States - Virginia. 'From Williamsburg to Wills's Creek: the Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia' (an illustrated exhibition at the Library of Virginia, 2008-09, discussing the various surveyors involved) {April, 2009}
• United States - Virginia. 'Guide to the Historical Map Collection' (leading to a geographically organised listing of maps of Virginia, other parts of the US and elsewhere - Special Collections, University Libraries of Virginia Tech) {January, 2004}
• United States - Virginia. 'Hugh Paul Taylor, Historian and Mapmaker' (David Scott Turk (from West Virginia History, Volume 56, pp. 43-55)) {November 2000}
• United States – Virginia. ‘In Early Maps of Virginia, West Was at the Top. But why?’ (an illustrated note, by Erica Naone, for Atlas Obscura, 30 July 2018) {July, 2018}
• United States – Virginia. Janssonius & Hondius globes (pair of 17-inch (44 cm) globes by Johannes Janssonius and Jodocus Hondius II, engraved by Abraham Goos, 1648; ‘Including Captain John Smith's Lost Earliest Mapping of Virginia’; enlargeable and rotatable - Barry Lawrence Ruderman) {March, 2021}
• United States - Virginia. 'The John Smith Map of Virginia: Derivations & Derivatives' (illustrated commentary by Laurie Glover, 1997, on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #24) {November, 2006}
• + United States - Virginia. Mapping Virginia (Library of Virginia, 1999)
• United States - Virginia. 'Powhatan’s Deerskin Mantle with Shell Map, ca. 1608' (a web essay with texts and comment on the "ornamental deerskin cloak, with shell beadwork symbolically mapping the balance of power among southeastern Indians of the Chesapeake tidewater region", with illustrations including the White and de Bry maps of Virginia - Deborah Taylor-Pearce) {July, 2005}
• United States - Virginia. 'Re-stating John Henry’s 1770 Map of Virginia: Discovery of a previously unrecorded proof state' (North Carolina Map Blog, 10 December 2014) {December, 2014}
• United States - Virginia. 'Robert Tindall’s Chart of James River, 1608' (an examination of contemporary documents by Deborah Taylor-Pearce, June 2006) {June, 2006}
• United States - Virginia. 'Yes, Virginia, Names Are Always Important' (a piece by Conley L. Edwards citing sources for US place-names - on the GenealogyandFamilyHistory.com blog, 30 July 2009) {July, 2009}
• United States - Virginia. 'The "Zuñiga Chart" of Virginia, 1608' (an illustrated examination of contemporary documents by Deborah Taylor-Pearce, June 2006) {June, 2006}
• United States – Virginia - Alexandria. ‘The Early Years of Alexandria, Virginia’ (illustrated note by Ed Redmond for the Library of Congress Maps blog, 31 January 2018) {January, 2018}
• United States - Virginia - Jamestown. ‘County Plats: Evidence of a 17th-Century Virginian Cartographic Culture’ (Nathan Braccio, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Uncommon Sense—the blog, 30 August 2019) {October, 2019}
• United States - Virginia - Williamsburg. 'In search of the Frenchman's Map' (illustrated article by Michael J. Lombardi (see enlargeable scan), in Colonial Williamsburg Journal (Autumn 2007) {May, 2010}
• United States - Washington, D.C. ('City Beautiful: the 1901 plan for Washington, D.C.' - Julie K. Rose, 1996) {January, 2001}
• United States - Washington, D.C. 'From L'Enfant to the Senate Park Commission: Mapping the Nation's Capital from 1791 to 1902' (an illustrated 46-page article by Richard W. Stephenson, Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication No.6, 2014) {November, 2015}
• United States – Washington, D.C. ‘Modest Monuments: The District of Columbia Boundary Stones’ (an illustrated note by Tim St. Onge on the Library of Congress Maps blog, 17 May 2017) {May, 2017}
• United States - Washington, D.C. 'Plans of Washington, D.C. 1792-1800' (with a checklist, based on Coolie Verner's listing in Imago Mundi 23 (1969) - MapForum 12, May 2001) {May, 2001}
• United States - Washington D.C. 'Visualizing early Washington D C' (an attempt to recreate the area as it was in the period 1790-1820, with some early map details and a link to a 6-minute video - UMBC’s Imaging Research Center). [See also the article by Dan Bailey & Lindsay Schroader, in The Portolan, Journal of the Washington Map Society, 80 (2011)] {June, 2011}
• United States - Washington State. 'Digital Bibliography of the Geology and Mineral Resources of Washington' (includes material from 1798; a search on 'maps' produced 1905 records - by Connie J. Manson [updated monthly]) {January, 2002}
• United States – Washington State. ‘Early Washington Maps’ (Washington State University, Digital Collections) {March, 2017}
• United States - Washington State - Seattle. 'Pinpoints, Plots, Plats and Panoramas: With unique perspectives, Seattle mapmakers charted the path of a city's progress' (an article by Ross Anderson in the Seattle Times, 16 September 2001) {December, 2007}
• United States – West. ‘The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana’ (with an option to browse all the maps – Newberry Library, Chicago) {August, 2018}
• United States - West. 'Exploring the West' (lessons and worksheets to help 'expand and enrich students' perceptions of the West, but with sections on the broader history of cartography as well - Stanford University - NB temporarily removed October 2017) {March, 2012}
• United States - West. 'The Four Great Surveys of the West' (part of U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1050, by Mary C. Rabbitt) {May, 2005}
• United States – West. ‘Grafton Tyler Brown, Trailblazing Cartographer of the American West’ (Tim St. Onge, for the Library of Congress Maps Blog, 28 June 2017) {June, 2017}
• + United States – West. ’Mapping westward expansion‘ (online exhibition, Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) {November, 2017}
• United States - West. 'The Maps, Plans and Sketches of Herman Ehrenberg; a Carto-Bibliography' (by Diane M.T. North, August 1988, 16 pages - an occasional paper of the California Map Society) {June, 2011}
• United States - West. ‘Maps of Trails and Roads of the Great West’ (illustrated essay by Dennis Reinhartz for ’Mapping Movement in American History and Culture’ - Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago) {March, 2016}
• United States – West. ‘Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map Collection: Finding Aid’ (folding maps collected by the American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954; see ’Series 13. Maps and charts (rolled), 1880-1948’) {March, 2019}
• United States - West. 'Rare Spanish manuscript map showing the western borders of the Louisiana Purchase arrives at the Library of Congress' (an illustrated note on Father José Antonio Pichardo's 1811 map of Spanish Texas, Louisiana Territory, and the Trans- Mississippi West, by Anthony Páez Mullan for the Library of Congress blog, 25 February 2016) {February, 2016}
• United States - West. 'Reports of Explorations and Survey to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean' (Vols 1-10 & 12 of the Report, and the three maps - University of Michigan Library and Library of Congress) {May, 2005}
• United States - West. 'Surveyors of the American West' (includes the field notes of Robert Brewster Stanton, who led a railroad survey party through the Grand Canyon, 1889-90 - New York Public Library) {May, 2004}
• + United States - West. 'Territorial ambitions: mapping the Far West, 1772-1872' (images of nine maps with commentary - Society of California Pioneers) {January, 2004}
• United States - West. Trails of Hope: Overland Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869. 'Maps: Their Use by Overlanders' (footnoted article by Scott Eldredge, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University) {March, 2004}
• United States - West. ‘Union Map Catalog’ (a searchable catalogue of 'all of the available maps in the Huntington collection [about 8,000] with thumbnails (enlargeable) and short descriptions', covering California and the West, from the Huntington Library, Art Collection & Botanical Gardens, developed by Bill Warren and Mario Einaudi - California Map Society) {March, 2005; updated October 2006 and September 2013}
• United States - west coast. 'The List of Charts and Drawings Brought Back to England from Monterey by Broughton in 1793' (Andrew David, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 91-4) {November, 2005}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'Sinsinawa City, Wisconsin Territory' (by Benjamin Chambers, 1835; an example of a 'paper city', designed to lure investors and often not built - links are given to commentary and images of other US 'paper cities') {May, 2012}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'Turning Points in Wisconsin History' (searching for 'map' found 2003 items, many of them being mentions on single pages of digitised books, while selecting Maps nd Atlases found 386 items [again several being text]; with associated images - Wisconsin Historical Society) {February, 2006}
• United States - Wisconsin. ‘Wisconsin gazetteer’ (the full text of the 258-page book by John Hunt Warren, 1853 - ‘Making of America Books’) {October, 2004}
• United States - Wisconsin. 'Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps' (a searchable database, with a low resolution image of the relevant sketch map, 1832-66 - in cooperation with UW-Madison Libraries) {February, 2004}

Mexico, Central & South America and the West Indies

• General

• Mexico

• Central America

• West Indies

• South America

• + 'Cartes d'Amérique centrale et d'Amérique du sud' [Part of: 'Cartes des Amériques dans les Collections de la Bibliothèque Albert Ier, Bruxelles', 1992 - with a description and bibliography for each map] {October 2000}
• 'La Cartografia iberoamericana' (the full text of the 216-page volume, from the 1998 lecture series given by Luisa Martín-Merás, Max Justo Guedes & José Ignacio Gonzalez Leiva, published by the Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2000. NB the file is large (38 MB) and will take time to download) {July, 2010}
• Cities. 'Early Cities of the Americas' (articles on: Havana, Lima, Mexico City, Paramaribo, Potosi - Common-place The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Vol. 3:4 (2003)) {August, 2003}
• Gulf of Mexico and West Indies. 'The Third Coast: Echoes of Exploration and Discovery' (about three Spanish charts [and one English copy] covering the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, published by the Dirección de Hidrografía, 1805-21 - Katherine R. Goodwin, Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, in The Compass Rose 17:1 (Fall 2003)) {January, 2004}
• Gulf of Mexico. 'The working-method of the new cartographers: the Gulf of Mexico and Spanish sources, 1696-1718' (by Monique Pelletier, in: Terrae Incognitae 34 (2002), 60-72) {November, 2002}
• Latin America. 'Documentación del Foro Catastral Iberoamericano clasificada por AUTOR' (a group of articles, several in English, about cadastral surveys in Spain and Latin America, with some references to the maps resulting from them, 1996-, Foro Catastral Iberoamericano) {February, 2004}
• Latin America. 'A Journey Through Latin American Maps from the Columbian Encounter to the Present' (a very good list of relevant links, with a number of maps from various sources; prepared by Jordana Dym & Karl Offen for the 2011 University of Chicago Press volume they edited, Mapping Latin America: a Cartographic Reader) {October, 2011}
• Latin America. ‘Mapotecas y colecciones de mapas. Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. Atlas y material cartográfico’ (a bilingual, Spanish and English, round-up of cartographic resources for the Hispanic world) {September, 2022}
• Latin American Resources (LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center) {May, 2002}
• Latin America. ‘”Riches for the geography of America and Spain”: Felipe Bauza and his topographical collections, 1789-1848’ (illustrated article by Peter Barber, in British Library Journal, 1986, pp. 28-57) {March, 2018}

Mexico:

• 'Alexander von Humboldt and the Mapping of Mexico' (illustrated article by David Y. Allen, in: e-Perimetron, 9:2 (2014), pp. 78-96) {June, 2014}
• Antonio de Herrera Historia General (Madrid, 1601) ('UNLV Libraries' One Millionth Volume, April, 2004'; commentary by Peter Michel, accompanied by medium res. maps of the 'south west' (mostly covering Mexico) - University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries){November, 2005}
• Aztec. ‘The Codex Quetzalecatzin’ (brief commentary and an enlargeable image; Library of Congress) {August, 2018}
• Aztec. ‘The Codex Quetzalecatzin comes to the Library of Congress’ (a Nahuatl codex relating a family’s land holdings, 1570-95 - John Hessler for the Library of Congress Maps Blog, 21 November 2017) {November, 2017}
• 'Aztec Math Decoded, Reveals Woes of Ancient Tax Time' (about Aztec land surveying methods, by Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News, April 3, 2008 - summary of a subscription article in Science,4 April 2008, *20*, 5872, pp.72-77){April, 2008}
• 'Cartography of the Mexico-United States Frontier' (commentary by Antonio Rios-Bustamante, 1997, on six maps [three shown] - Newberry Library Slide Set #21) {November, 2006}
• 'The Changing Mexico-U.S. Border' (a brief illustrated note about events from 1819 onwards - Carlyn Osborn for the Library of Congress blog, 18 December 2015) {February, 2016}
• 'A Civilian Surveyor on the United States-Mexico Boundary: The Case of Arthur Schott' (by Paula Rebert in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 155 (2011): 433-462) {July, 2012}
• ‘Figures of speech: pictorial history in the Quinatzin Map of about 1542’ (22-page article by Eduardo de J. Douglas, The Art Bulletin, June 2003 - via AccessMyLibrary) {October, 2004}
• From the Golden Gate to Mexico City: the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846 1848 (the full text of the 345-page book (with appendixes) by Adrian George Traas, 1993 [see the Contents page] involving surveys in New Mexico and Mexico) {May, 2005}
• 'El Golfo de Mexico: Sixteenth & Eighteenth Century Views of the America's Sea' (illustrated commentary by Margaret Villanueva, 1997, on six MS maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #26) {November, 2006}
• ‘Mapping Non-European Visions of the World’ (an illustrated note by Lydia Pyne about 16th-century maps drawn by Indigenous artists for the Spanish administrators – Hyperallergic.com, 14 August 2019) {August, 2019}
• Mixtec. 'El Mapa de Teozacoalco: An Early Colonial Guide to Cultural Transformations' (an archaeological report, with bibliography, focussing on the map "drawn about 1580 using conventions of both European map-making and Mixtec codex-painting", preserved in the Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas at Austin - Stephen L. Whittington. 2002/03) {June, 2008}
• '19th Century Changes in the U.S.-Mexico Border / Annotated Map Bibliography' (Paul Bary, 1991)
• Oil. ‘Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map Collection: Finding Aid’ (folding maps collected by the American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954; see ’Series 13. Maps and charts (rolled), 1880-1948’) {March, 2019}
• 'Recordando los Binnigula'sa' - multiple voices in the Lienzo de Guevea y Petapa' (about the cartographic history (1540) of the central valley of Oaxaca and Isthmus of Tehuantepec; the text of a Master's thesis by Joshua Schwab, University of British Columbia, October 2009 {February, 2010}
• 'The Story of Maps: Mesoamerica in North America' (notes, by Roberto Rodriguez and Patrisia Gonzales, accompanying an exhibition in 2004 at the Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, with, about half-way down, a list of 'Maps on Display at UCLA Exhibit'; this starts with the J. Disturnell Mapa de los estados unidos de Méjico (1847), whose reference to the Hopi and to the ancient Aztec homeland (Aztlán) prompted the exhibit and the note) {January, 2006}
• Tlacotalpa. ‘Why Modern Cartographers Are So Impressed With This 16th-Century Map’ (an illustrated note on a hand-drawn map/chart by Francisco Gali, 1580 - by Sarah Laskow, Atlas Obscura, 11 September 2017) {October, 2017}
• 'Views of the Borderlands: The Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1857-1859' (Paula Rebert, in: Terrae Incognitae 37 (2005), 75-90) {November, 2005}

Central America:

• Canals. ‘The Elusive Nicaragua Canal’ (illustrated note by Tim St. Onge, Library of Congress Maps blog, 16 November 2017) {November, 2017}
• Central America. 'Defining Independent Central America Through Traveler's Cartographies (1821-1950)' (commentary by Jordana Dym, 2002, on eight maps - Newberry Library Virtual Slide Set #2) {April, 2006}
• Central America. 'Mapping Land Politics on the Mosquito Shore' (notes by Karl Offen relating to a fellowship at the John Carter Brown Library, April 2010) {April, 2010}
• Central America. ‘Sir Gregor MacGregor, the Cazique of Poyais’ (‘In 1820, self-proclaimed Scottish nobleman Gregor MacGregor launched one of the most audacious and elaborate frauds of all time, tricking thousands of Brits into investing in “Poyais”, a territory in Central America [Bay of Honduras] which turned out to be entirely fictional’ - Daniel Crouch Rare Books) {June, 2021}
• Guatemala. 'Conquerors’ hopes dashed' (a brief note on the 'Lienzo de Quauhquecholla', identified by Florine Asselbergs as the first map of Guatemala, documenting 'a campaign of conquest through Guatemala by the Spanish conqueror Jorge the Alvarado in 1527-1529' - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2004) {December, 2007}
• Honduras. 'Portolan Charts of the Bay of Honduras' (54-minute video of a talk, by Richard Pflederer, 6 February 2007, given to the 25th international symposium of the International Map Collectors' Society, 4-7 February 2007, at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, Guatemala City) {September, 2008}
• + Middle America. Maps associated with the Relaciones Geográficas (1578-86) [Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas at Austin] {October 2000}
• Nicaragua. 'Maps of Nicaragua 1965-1987: a bibliography' (Claire Englander, 1989)

West Indies:

• Antilles. ‘Geomagnetism and the Cartography of Juan de la Cosa: A New Perspective on the Greater Antilles in the Age of Discovery’ (by Aldo Alvarez, in: Terrae Incognitae 35 (2003), 1-15) {December, 2004}
• Barbados. ‘The Printed Maps of Barbados 1500 – 1900’ (a fully illustrated carto-bibliography brought together by Jim Webster, based on the work of E. M. Shilstone, Tony Campbell and Alan Moss; additions and corrections are invited - 18 February 2020). See also a YouTube video featuring 50 of the maps; the images can be paused {March, 2020}
• Barbados. ‘Updating the Colonial Cartographic Representation of Barbados: Digital Inquiries of a Sugar Island’ (geo-referencing four of the early Barbados maps and data from the first two census of the island - Peter James Koby, doctoral dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2017) {January, 2020}
• British Virgin Islands. St Thomas. ‘300 jaar geleden verscheen de eerste kaart van Sint Thomas’ (an illustrated note by Peter van der Krogt - Allard Pierson Museum) {October, 2019}
• Cuba. ‘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}
Cuba. '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') {January, 2004}
• Dutch West Indies. 'The cartographic representation of the Netherlands East and West Indies on Dutch school wall maps' (an online article by Dr.ir. Lowie Brink of the antiquariat, De wereld aan de wand, Nijmegen, January 2010 - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• ‘Insular Visions: Cartographic Imagery and the Spanish-American War’ (3-page article by Raymond B. Craib and D. Graham Burnett in Historian, Fall 1998, without illustrations - via Highbeam Library)
• Puerto Rico. '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') {January, 2004}
• St. Croix. 'Historical Geography of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies)' ('a collaborative Internet project initiated in 1997', including "An illustrated essay on the 18th-century mapping of St. Croix" - Christopher Tabor and Daniel Hopkins) {September, 2003}
• West Indies. 'Caribmap: A Mobile-friendly Web Resource for Caribbean Maps that Facilitates Quantitative Historical Analysis' (Blair Hedges: pre-print of an article published in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries, 9(3): 350-360, 2013) {March, 2014}
• West Indies. 'The cartographic representation of the Netherlands East and West Indies on Dutch school wall maps' (16- page illustrated pdf article by Lowie Brink - International Symposium on "Old Worlds-New Worlds": The History of Colonial Cartography 1750-1950, Utrecht, 21-23 August 2006 (Working Group on the History of Colonial Cartography in the 19th and 20th Centuries, International Cartographic Association)) {March, 2008}
• West Indies. 'The Representation of the West Indies in Early Iberian Cartography' (a detailed comment by Luis A. Robles Macías, to the ISHMap List, 2 May 2015, in response to a statement in an article by Joaquim Alves Gaspar in Terrae Incognitae 47:1 (Spring 2015), p.21, that "no historical source mentions the determination of latitudes by astronomical methods along the northern coast of South America"; instead Robles Macias points out that "the first Decade of Martyr's De orbe novo supports the idea that latitudes were indeed astronomically determined by early Spanish explorers of America. In particular, the position of the equator was ascertained based on the visibility of the Pole Star") {April, 2015}
• West Indies. 'A research collection of historical maps and prints of the Caribbean Islands. Part 1: photographic prints, photocopies and facsimiles' (material collected by William C. Found; see the 90-page description of the 141 maps (with thumbnails) and hints on ordering images from the libraries concerned - York University, Toronto) {February, 2012}

South America:

• South America. ‘The extraordinary life of George Melville Boynton’ (an illustrated note by Charles Roberts about Boynton’s 1908 map of South America - The Map House, 17 May 2018) {May, 2018}
• South America. Utis Possidetis and Rubber Boom in the cartographic clash over the Andean- Amazonian basin. Imagined contested Amazonian borders between Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, in the second half of the 19th century' (You Tube version of a poster presented by Sebastian Diaz Angel at the 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography, Copenhagen, July 2009) {February, 2010}
• South America. 'Warping Waldseemüller: a Cartometric Study of the Coast of South America as Portrayed on the 1507 World Map' (John Hessler in: Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table, American Library Association, ser. A, no.4 (August 29, 2005)) {August, 2005}
• Amazon. ‘Rediscovering a Map of the Amazon’ (‘a 1755 map created by a German Jesuit missionary for the Portuguese Empire casts new light on early European efforts to map the Amazon River valley’; an illustrated article by Mirela Altic for the Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, 16 March 2022) {March, 2022}
• Amazon. 'Teixeira's act of possession' (Michael Layland - Mercator's World 1:2, 1996)
• Brazil. 'Cartas, Plantas, Esboços e Projectos: Cartografia Militar Portuguesa dos Séc. XVIII a XX' (you can search in English, Portuguese or Spanish [select from 'língua' and then click on 'Base bibliográfica geral'] for about 12,000 full descriptions [mostly of cartographic items in Portuguese and of Portugal but with others relating to Spain (particularly the frontier areas), Brazil, the African possessions, etc.]; there is no geographical index but you can enter a place-name (in its Portuguese form) under 'Word/Palavra' ['Brasil' found 92 items, 'Brazil' 18] - Projecto SIDCARTA, Direcção dos Serviços de Engenharia) {April, 2006}
• Brazil. 'Cartography of Brazil in the Collections of the National Library (1700-1822)' (a searchable database with 333 records covering 379 maps, 1700-1822) {August, 2005}
• Brazil. 'Colonial fortifications in Brazil. Preliminary inventory part 1: Historical research in the Netherlands' (a 73-page, partially illustrated, report by L.A.H.C. Hulsman, New Holland Foundation, 2015) {April, 2015}
• Brazil. 'France and Brazil in the First Century of Contact: The Lure of Brazilwood' (commentary by Gayle Brunelle, 1989, on six maps - Newberry Library Slide Set #11) {April, 2006}
• Brazil. 'Geological Survey of Brazil: 40 years producing and providing data and geological information' (10-page pdf paper presented by Claudia Lopes at the IFLA conference, Milan, 25 August 2009) {August, 2009}
• Brazil. Georg Marcgraf / Rombout Van Den Hoeye. ‘Brasilia qua parte paret Belgis | Brasiliae Geographica & Hydrographica Tabula nova’ (an extended catalogue description of an unrecorded version of the 9-sheet wall map, first issued by Blaeu in 1647 - Barry Lawrence Ruderman) {December, 2021}
• Brazil. 'The history of cartography in the metropolitan region of Recife' (an illustrated paper by L. Antunes Correia Marques Sa at the 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris, 3–8 July 2011) {July, 2011}
• Brazil. 'Laboratório de Estudos de Cartografia Histórica' (a gateway site - Rogerio Toshiaki Kondo, Centro de Informática de São Carlos) {January, 2009}
• Brazil. ‘Mapping the Maracanã Aqueduct: Reconstructing the Route of Rio de Janeiro’s Second Major Aqueduct,’ (illustrated article by Alida C. Metcalf & Sean Morey Smith, in: e-Perimetron, 13:1 (2018), pp. 1-22) {June, 2018}
• Brazil. 'Mapping the Traveled Space: Hans Staden’s Maps in Warhaftige Historia' (in particular about the map of Brazil (1557) - "The mapping tradition of mariners seems to have been a major influence, and the map accords ownership of the mainland to indigenous groups, making this a unique representation of sixteenth-century Brazil" - by Alida C. Metcalf in the e-Journal of Portuguese History 7:1 (Summer 2009)) {February, 2010}
• Brazil. 'A New Map of the Franco-Brazilian Border Dispute (1900)’ (by Federico Ferretti in Imago Mundi, 67, no.2 (2015), 229-41; prize-winning article, feely available) {July, 2017}
• Brazil. Philately. 'Interseções geográficas: uma análise da cartografia filatélica brasileira / Geographical intersections: an analysis of the Brazilian Philatelic Cartography' (by José Flávio Morais Castro, et al., in: Revista Sociedade & Natureza 19, 2 (2007) pp.153-69 - via Directory of Open Access Journals) {December, 2008}
• Brazil - Rio de Janeiro. 'Water and Social Space: Using georeferenced maps and geocoded images to enrich the history of Rio de Janeiro’s fountains' (illustrated article by Alida C. Metcalf, in: e-Perimetron, 9:3 (2014), pp. 123-45) {November, 2014}
• Brazil. '"Sales from the Map Room" or Collecting "modern" cartography' (reissue of an illustrated article by Michael Layland in The Map Collector 73 (Winter 1995); about maps in the Royal Geographical Society's publications relating to the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to the Amazon Basin - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Agustín Codazzi y la Comisión Corográfica de la Nueva Granada. Apéndices bibliográficos de la obra de Efraín Sánchez - Biblioteca Virtual, Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá) {July, 2005}
• Colombia. 'Razón Cartográfica. Red de Historia de las Geografías y Cartografías de Colombia' (a blog and gateway) {November, 2007; amended July 2008}
• + Colombia - Bogotá. 'Historical cartography (a virtual exhibition comprising four maps, 1894-1935, discussed and overlaid on georeferenced satellite images via Google Earth - part of 'The City's Currents: A History of Water in 20th-Century Bogotá' by Stefania Gallini, Laura Felacio, Angélica Agredo, and Stephanie Garcés) {January, 2016}
• Colombia. 'Cartografía historica de Colombia' (leading to five illustrated texts: 'Cartografía del Tolima Grande', 'Cartografía histórica del Alto Magdalena', 'Cartografía histórica del Cesar', 'Cartografía histórica de los territorios boyacenses', and 'Chocó en la cartografía histórica' (by Luis Fernando González) - La Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango del Banco de la República) {November, 2007}
• Colombia. ‘Cispatá Bay and Mestizos Evolution as Reconstructed from Old Documents and Maps (16th–20th Century)’ (an illustrated article by Marco Piccardi, Ivan D. Correa & Enzo Pranzini in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 8(9):669 (August 2020)) {August, 2020}
• + Colombia. 'Ensamblando la Nación: cartografía y política en la historia de Colombia' (a highly sophisticated presentation of integrated text with illustrations, with a separate link to the 109-page Catalogue - at the Casa de la Moneda del Banco de la República, Bogotá, August-December 2010, organised by Razón Cartográfica) {September, 2010}
• Colombia. 'Libros sobre geografia en Biblioteca Virtual' (historical and contemporary texts, including Cartografía Histórica del Alto Magdalea and Cartografía Histórica del Cesar - Banco de la República; on the website of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango) {January, 2006}
• Colombia. 'Proyecto de Archivo Digital Vergara y Velasco' (a project to mount on the web the complete geographical and cartographical works of the Colombian geographer, cartographer and historian, Francisco Javier Vergara y Velasco (1860-1914), including 150 maps in each of the Nueva geografía de Colombia (1901) and Atlas completo de geografía colombiana (1906-10), and correspondence with Eliseé Reclus, etc. - David Ramirez) {July, 2008}
• Galápagos Islands: history and cartography (John Woram)
• Galápagos Islands. 'The year of the tortoise: dating the maps of the Galápagos Islands' (John Woram) {May, 2001}
• Galápagos Islands. 'History and Discovery on the Web' (by John Woram, explaining the author's innovative Galápagos maps website - Society for the History of Discoveries annual meeting, September 2001) {February, 2002}
• Le Maire's Strait. 'In the name of the son: Isaac Le Maire fought to credit his son Jacob as the discoverer of the Le Maire Strait' (Brian Hooker - Mercator's World 3:4, 1998)
• Peru. 'Cartographic serendipity: finding Soldan's atlas of Peru' (reissue of an illustrated article by Michael Layland in The Map Collector 67 (Summer 1994) - Kunstpedia) {July, 2010}
• Peru. 'Original Unpublished Collection of Maps Relating to the Episcopate of Peru; Portraits of Archbishops, Viceroys, and Other Characters of Peru in Color and Gold; City Plans; Tables on Indigenous Languages: The Codex Trujillo del Perú. Volume I' (by Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón, c.1782-9 - National Library of Colombia; for access click the 'PDF 150.6 MB' link beneath the map [not examined because of long loading time]) {March, 2013}
• Peru. 'Planos de Lima 1613-1983' (a historical note (1983) and a selection of plans - Juan Gunter Doering) {October, 2011}
• Straits of Magellan. 'Jodocus Hondius the Elder. Map of the Straits of Magellan' (by Fredric Shauger - on the New York Map Society site) {September, 2007}
• + Straits of Magellan. 'Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific' (a well-illustrated online exhibition [shown to the public July 2010-January 2011), with sections on the Strait of Magellan, Pacific Ocean, Spice Islands (Moluccas) and ten Explorers, covering the period 1520s to 1770s - curated by John Delaney, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library) {July, 2010}
• Venezuela. ‘Ralph Arnold Photograph and Map Collection: Finding Aid’ (folding maps collected by the American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954; see ’Series 13. Maps and charts (rolled), 1880-1948’) {March, 2019}

      + online exhibitions       * works with a theoretical (often literary) dimension