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Historical Maps
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Civil War Maps: Civil War Maps, 1861-1865 
 "This presentation contains approximately 2,240 Civil War maps and charts and 76 atlases and sketchbooks." Includes related essays. Searchable, and browsable by place, subject, creator, and title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/ Topics: History, Maps, Military, U.S. Maps, United States History, Wars & Conflicts Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Crossroads of Empire: Early Printed Maps of Texas and the Southwest
A site about the discovery and exploration of the southwestern New World, Texas, and the neighboring region. Each map includes a description in English and Spanish. Includes a history of early mapmaking as well as images and backgrounds for explorers Cabeza De Vaca, de Soto, and Coronado. Also find classic images depicting California as an island, plus games, other learning activities, and related readings. http://www.humanities-interactive.org/crossroads/exhibit26.html Topics: History, U.S. Maps Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Early Washington Maps: A Digital Collection
A searchable collection of early Washington state maps covering disputed boundaries, maps showing planned features of new towns, railroad tracks, postal roads, and Indian reservations. Includes a "Historical Timeline of Events Leading to the Formation of Washington State," with links to related maps. A joint project of Washington State University Libraries and the University of Washington Libraries. http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/xmaps.html Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Jun 24, 2004 Gilmer Civil Wars Maps Collection
"The Gilmer maps are an extensive group of Civil War maps, including both manuscript maps and printed maps with manuscript annotations and engineers' drawings of military construction," housed in the Manuscripts Department of the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The site "includes 161 maps representative of the entire southern region, with particularly large groupings of North Carolina and Virginia maps. Most of the maps are dated 1861-1865." http://dc.lib.unc.edu/gilmer/ Topics: U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Aug 7, 2006 Heading West, Touring West
This site is based on two New York Public Library exhibitions. The first "traces the evolution from an imagined to a defined and mapped American West. Through impressions of the West in maps from 1540 to 1900, the website presents an overview of the mapping process, which continues today." The second "celebrates the [19th century] creators, promoters, and performers of professional theater, music, and dance who toured the American continent." http://www.nypl.org/west/ Topics: Geography, Maps, Performing Arts, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Mar 15, 2004 Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms
This site features thematic sets of historical maps "accompanied by lesson plans written for four grade levels and designed to support a variety of social studies, history, and geography curricula." Themes include exploration, migration, environmental history, transportation, political and military history, and American communities. Also provides a glossary. From the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library. http://www.newberry.org/K12maps/ Topics: Geography, History, K-12 Education, Lesson Plans, Maps, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Nov 10, 2009 Historic Pittsburgh
This digital collection "provides an opportunity to explore and research the history of Pittsburgh and the surrounding Western Pennsylvania area." This ongoing project currently has hundreds of full-text books from the 19th and 20th centuries and plat maps of the area from 1872 to 1939. Also provides census records and other research help. A joint project of the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/ Topics: Maps, U.S. History By Place, U.S. Maps Last updated Oct 7, 2005 Historical Maps Online
"The intent of [this] project is to publish electronically the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory. ... [T]he project aims to provide a broad spectrum of content, from expert scholarship of mapmakers and mapmaking to general knowledge about cartography and history." A collaborative effort of the University of Illinois Library and University of Illinois Press. http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/maps/ Topics: U.S. Maps Last updated Feb 28, 2006 Kansas City Public Library: Local History
Collections of thousands of photographs, brief biographies of notable people, postcards, interactive maps, profiles of buildings and architecture, and more. From the Kansas City (Missouri) Public Library. http://www.kclibrary.org/kchistory Topics: Maps, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States, U.S. History By Place, U.S. Maps Last updated Jul 8, 2009 Lewis & Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814
This exhibit of history, maps, and navigational instruments "examines the planning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and the cartographic tradition that made the expedition possible." Includes maps of the emerging view of the new continent of North America, French cartographic contributions, and those "made to western exploration by the Virginia gentry." A bibliography and related links are available. From the University of Virginia. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/lewis_clark/ Topics: Geography, History, Maps, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Nov 11, 2004 Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West
A cooperative project of several organizations, this site provides access to Lewis and Clark maps, with related activities and lesson plans. http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/ Topics: Geography, History, Lesson Plans, Maps, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Jan 11, 2004 Maps of the French and Indian War
Fourteen historic maps, with accompanying facts about the pivotal battles of the French and Indian War. From the collection of The Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.masshist.org/maps/Intro/FISplash.htm Topics: History, Maps, Military, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Jul 25, 2002 Maps of the Pimería: Early Cartography of the Southwest
"Pimería was a province or region--never precisely defined--of Spanish colonial Mexico encompassing what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora, the name being derived from the Pima Indians who live in the region." This site includes over twenty-five maps, ranging in date from 1556 to 1854. Each map features a description and information about the cartographer; some also have brief historical background notes. From the University of Arizona Library. http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/pimeriamaps/ Topics: History By Place, Maps, U.S. History By Place, U.S. Maps Last updated Mar 1, 2006 Military Battles and Campaigns
"Maps showing campaigns of major military conflicts including troop movements, defensive structures and groundworks, roads to and from sites of military engagements, campsites, and local buildings, topography and vegetation.... [Many of the] maps provide information ... not available elsewhere." Most maps are of the United States. Includes themed collections on the American Revolution and the Civil War. Searchable and browsable. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/milhome.html Topics: History, Maps, Military, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated May 25, 2004 Minnesota Maps Online
"Search Minnesota's original public land survey plats, created during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office during the years 1848 to 1907. Also included are the later General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management maps, up to the year 2001." Site also provides digitized plat books and atlases from the 19th century. From the Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnhs.org/collections/digitalmaps/ Topics: U.S. Maps Last updated Apr 25, 2006 Panoramic Maps 1847-1929
A collection of panoramic maps from the United States and Canada, mostly of cities. Searchable by keyword, and browsable by geographic location, subject, creator, and title. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/ Topics: Maps, Maps by Place, U.S. Maps Last updated Mar 2, 2006 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps at the University of Virginia Library
"Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps are highly detailed city plans providing researchers with a wealth of information about urban change in American cities during the first half of the twentieth century. ... The highly detailed plans ... record detailed information about streets, businesses, residences building materials, [and] utilities." This site provides examples of two Sanborn maps for Charlottesville, Virginia, a history of the maps, and a guide to reading the maps. From the University of Virginia. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/maps/sanborn/ Topics: Consumer Research & Advocacy, Finance, Maps, Social Science, U.S. Maps Last updated Mar 2, 2005 A Set of Plans and Forts in America, 1765
"Published in 1765 by Mary Ann Rocque, widow of John Rocque and Topographer to His Royal Highness the Duke of Glouchester, this book contains 30 plans of forts in North America. Published after the English victory over the French, Rocque's plans were drawn from previously published maps." Some of the towns and fortifications depicted are Albany, New York, Montreal, Quebec, Ticonderoga, Fort George, and Halifax. From the collection of The Massachusetts Historical Society. http://www.masshist.org/maps/PlansandForts/intro.htm Topics: History By Place, Maps, Maps by Place, U.S. Maps, United States History Last updated Mar 2, 2006 Washington Counties, 1844-1911
This site features an animated map of the evolution of counties in Washington state from 1844 until 1911, demonstrating the change from a few large counties to many smaller ones. County names are not included. Includes technical details, and links to the author's other animation projects and his dissertation on the evolution of county size. From a sociology professor at Western Washington University. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/wa.div.html Topics: U.S. History By Place Last updated Jul 22, 2004 Weekend Explorer
This is "is a series of walking tours through areas of New York ... [that] seeks out still-visible traces of the city's layers of history." Topics include Manhattan's photo booths, Weegee's naked city, Brooklyn's freedom trail, immigrant communities in Flushing (Queens), gangsters and ghosts in Hell's Kitchen, P.T. Barnum's New York, and more. Interactive maps feature audio and video segments. From The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2007/12/13/arts/WEEKEND_EXPLORER_FEATURE.html Topics: U.S. Maps Last updated Jun 24, 2008 |
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