(Hundreds of annotated, organised and searchable links - the only
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high resolution, enabling every place-name to be easily read -
search for: high res.
medium resolution, enabling some names to be read
low resolution, with the names illegible
'slow loading' refers to the experience with a standard 56K modem
Oddens' Bookmarks is including an increasing number of single
maps from early atlases and series [this page is concerned with
sites only] so it is well worth checking there if you are looking
for a specific early map.
For further details see About
the listing of early map image sites; and for map images issued in
CD-ROM form see Boudewijn Meijer's Map Reference page
Size, of course, is not necessarily the most important consideration.
Praise should be concentrated on those that provide high resolution (i.e.
research quality) images, organised around a coherent theme, and properly
referenced. Happily, many of those in this summary listing meet those
requirements.
Some of the sites, such as the Library of Congress's 'American Memory' or
David Rumsey's privately sponsored Collection, are deservedly well
known. Others of comparable size are not. Of note are the large
numbers of high quality images on, for example, the New South Wales
'Parish Map' site (30,000), and the 85,000 19th century plans of Great
Britain available via the Landmark/Ordnance Survey site.
The sites are given in the order they appear in this listing and linked
to the relevant section heading. NB many are still being developed and
the totals given may be out of date.
General Sites
Berkeley. University of California, Berkeley, Earth Sciences & Map
Library (Large general sites -
several hundred, high res.)
Bibliothèque nationale de France (Large general sites - several
thousand, very high res.)
'Cartographic Images', from Jim Siebold (Large general sites - about
1,400, low res.)
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, the University of Texas at
Austin. 'Historical Maps' (Large
general sites - a large site, high res.)
University of Michigan Library. 'Miscellaneous - a handful of maps'
(Large general sites - 1,070,
very high res.)
(Larger map dealer
sites [some of which carry hundreds, or even thousands of map
images for all parts of the world, arranged geographically, even if
most are low res., e.g. Art Source International's 12,625 maps, and Barry
Lawrence Ruderman's 4,000])
Canada
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec (Canada - Québec: about 1,000,
high res.)
United States
'American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850' (United States (general) -
initially about 750, medium and high res.)
New South Wales Department of Information Technology and Management,
'Parish Map Preservation Project' (Australia & Oceania - 30,000,
high res.)
Europe
Historic Cities Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the
Jewish National and University Library, 'Historic Cities' (Europe - Town Plans: about 250
images [rising to 400], covering over 200 cities from 36 countries,
represented in works by Beaulieu, Beauvau, Blaeu, Braun & Hogenberg,
Breydenbach, Coronelli, Homann, Münster, Pinargenti, Schedel, very high
res. - see
Oddens' Bookmarks for
links to the separate sheets)
Ministère
wallon de l'Equipement et des Transports. 'Patrimoine Cartographique de
Wallonie' (Europe - Belgium: 15,454
cartographic documents of various types, high res.)
Guildhall Library's 'Collage' database (Europe - British Isles - London:
about 1,000, low res.)
Landmark /Ordnance Survey (Europe - British Isles - Great
Britain: about 85,000, high res.)
Rootsweb's 'Old Maps of Great Britain' (Europe - British Isles - Great
Britain: large selection, some high res.)
'Charting the Nation: maps of Scotland and associated archives,
1550-1740' (Europe - British
Isles - Scotland: 2,200 [rising to 3,500], high res.)
National Library of Scotland (Europe - British Isles -
Scotland: about 2,000, high res.)
Finnish estate plans (Europe - Finland '1600-luvun
maakirjakartat': several hundred, high res.)
Rome, Archivio di Stato (Europe - Italy - Rome: "about
5,000 digital colour photos of maps and manuscripts, 25,000 colour scans
of ancient maps and parchments, 100,000 greyscale scans of cadastre and
notarial registers"
Turin, Archivio di Corte (Europe - Italy - Turin: 4,538
[of 6,500], high res.)
Netherlands. 'Gemeente Atlas van Nederland. J. Kuyper 1865-1870' (Europe - Netherlands: up to
1000[?],high res.)
'Noord-Hollandse Beeldbank' (Europe - Netherlands: 604 large
thumbnails)
'Overijssel in Kaart: De geschiedenis van Overijssel in oude en
nieuwe kaarten' (Europe -
Netherlands: 429, high res.)
Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal (Europe - Portugal: 324, high
res.)
James Ford Bell Library's Russian selection (Europe - Russia: large
selection, medium res.)
Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional (Europe - Spain: apparently
1,629, enlargeable)
Cadastral Maps from land reforms during the 18th and 19th centuries
('Digital Historical Maps') (Europe - Sweden: 4,671, high
res.)
Lantmäteriverket. 'Historical Maps' (Europe - Sweden: over 100,000
[with a
target of 300,000 for the end of 2002], high res.)
Ryhiner Collection (Europe - Switzerland: about 900,
medium res.)
BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE
A vast and complex site, but difficult to navigate around in the absence
of site maps. There would appear to be several thousand very high
res. images - accessible either via the BNdeF catalogue; via 'Gallica', the Bibliothèque Numérique
(digitised library); via a series of online exhibitions; or via
Dossiers Pedagogiques, and
its 'Histoire'-
'Dossiers Icono'- 'Cartes, atlas et globes' index. There is no obvious
way to access directly the maps other than those in the catalogue.
[If you can improve on the description below, please contact the Editor - there are
almost certainly other treasures besides those noted below]. The main
elements with cartographic relevance seem to be as follows {NB many
links were not operating in July 2002 - perhaps this was a temporary
problem}:-
The BNdeF catalogue (searching as
follows produced 2,393 hits, mostly of maps of France and its
regions - click, successively, on Bibliothèque numérique and
Recherche; then empty all the boxes except Lots d'images
and write carte* in Recherche libre; it is theoretically
possible to combine carte with a geographical name, linked by
ET (i.e. 'and') [the English version of the site does not offer
the equivalent search])
Gallica. La Bibliothèque
Numérique (a series of texts: (a) grouped by century under
'Découverte' [Discovery], with separate pages for astronomy, geographical
discovery, etc., linked to related catalogue entries and illustrated with
maps; and (b) via 'Dossiers', e.g. 'L'Europe découvre l'Afrique' [see
under Africa]; 'Voyages en
France' [see under Europe];
and (forthcoming May 2002) 'Voyages en Italie'] - the Gallica Search
['Recherche'] offers a list of subjects but those beginning 'cart*' were
not operating, nor could they be copied into the search box)
'Fonds
d'Anville' (listing of 1,899 maps from the collection of Jean
Baptiste Bourgignon d'Anville, linked to catalogue descriptions and images
- searching 'Gallica' for
d'anville, however, produced 1,551 hits)
Bibliothèque Nationale de France - see also under Themes (Catalan Atlas; Celestial
[various]; Globes; Islamic; Medieval; Portolan charts), and US General (De Bry). Pages
on the Ebstorf Mappamundi are under construction (July 2002). The
entire entry above - for which I acknowledge the work of Jack Kessler and his 'FYI France'
e-journal, and Tommy Tyrberg - was added {July, 2002}
Cartographic Images
[Jim Siebold's site, hosted by Henry Davis Consulting. This includes
around 1,400 low res. images (both whole maps and details) for a
wide range of historically important maps (i.e. they tend to be
institutional 'treasures', often in manuscript), divided into historical
periods (Ancient, Early and Late Medieval, Renaissance [though up to
1880]) each of which has a chronological index. Some images are
accompanied by extensive 'monographs' (i.e. descriptions)]
David Rumsey collection
(at August 2002, 7,184 high res., zoomable, images - mostly 19th
century
America but also with 18th century world atlases (by d'Anville, Homann,
Kitchin, Moll, Robert de Vaugondy, etc.), searchable
by: Country, State, Publication Author, Keywords, Data field). He is
distributing, without charge, an advanced Java client software
('Insight'), to help deliver better images and high quality print-outs
from them. You will, though, need to set aside 20-30 minutes to download
the software (assuming you have a standard 56K modem), if you choose that
route rather than simply using your browser. In December 2001, a new GIS
Browser was added, allowing 'integration and interaction of historical
maps with current geospatial data and other historical maps' [this will
be available for various US cities]. For further information, see his
explanatory pages: 'About the technology'
and 'Printing from the
collection'; State of the Art:
David Rumsey's Online Map Collection by Julie Sweetkind
(Mercator's World Sept/Oct 2000); 'This is a
Real Quest for Maps' by Kendra Mayfield (Wired News, 7 March 2002);
or, if you want more depth,
his March 2001 paper, 'Historical Map Collection Web Site', at the 'Museums
and the Web' conference. Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) records
are available - contact Phil
Hoehn, Librarian, David Rumsey Collection. N.B. It is now
possible to search simultaneously across the Library of Congress [see
below] and David Rumsey sites, via MapLibraries.com. In March 2002,
David Rumsey (Cartography Associates) signed an agreement with the Art
Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) to provide cartographic images for
educational use from Fall 2002. The David Rumsey Historical Map
Collection won the 2002 Webby
Award for the best 'technical achievement' Web site.
'GEOWEB' -
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice (a
collection of about 16,000 cartographic and graphic images
(perhaps 80% of them cartographic), with brief bibliographical details,
viewable in low res. JPEG [high res. TIF images are available only
within the Marciana Library itself]).
Procedure: (1) click on 'English version' to bring up the search
screen; (2) choose between 'General' [i.e. everything], 'Geographical
Maps', or 'Coronelli'; (3) select from the options under 'Name' - as
follows:-
Author name - leave the default as 'Name', change 'Phrase' to
'Index' and enter under 'Term 1' the author's last name. Entering, e.g,
AA will bring up the first 100 entries in a browsing index of
all the authors represented. You could then scroll through the
entire list, clicking on 'Next'. Alternatively, once you have retrieved
a catalogue entry, a click on the author's name brings up everything
else by that author. A click on the volume details brings up a
complete hyperlinked list of all the individual sheets in that
work
Geographical name - click on 'Subjects/Classifications' for an
alphabetical index covering the Americas. For other parts of the world
it is suggested that you select the options 'Main Title' and 'Word'. You
can then search for a
geographical word anywhere in the title. You can also truncate a
title-word, e.g. vene will retrieve Venezia, Veneto etc.
Title - select 'Main Title' ['Other Titles' refers to an
alternative or parallel title and is probably less relevant]. If you
leave the right-hand option as 'Phrase', entering a term will lead you to
an index of titles that start with that word. If you change to
'Word', it will look for the word anywhere in the title. You can
retrieve the titles of both separate maps and the volumes that contain
them
Other searches - you can also select 'Place of Publication'
and 'Date' [single or date-range]. The Help page is
in Italian only
The site contains:-
Coronelli. The complete cartographic and graphic work of
Vincenzo Coronelli (over 8,000 images)
Geographical maps and views. A large selection of maps,
including portolan charts and atlases, the Cellarius celestial atlas;
town atlases of the 16th and 17th centuries (d'Avity, P. and D. Bertelli,
Braun & Hogenberg [6 vols], Valegio); general atlases (Blaeu [2 vols],
Clüver, de Fer,
Delisle, Mercator-Hondius [3 vols], Mercurio Geografico, Münster,
Ortelius,
Rizzi-Zannoni, Sanuto); Isolarii (Bellin, Bordone, Millo, Porcacchi,
Roux); plans and views of Venice (15th-18th century); and some editions
of Ptolemy's Geography (in all, over 7,000 images, but not all maps - for
the complete list, select 'Info English')
{February, 2001}
LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS: 'MAP COLLECTIONS: 1500-1999' The LC 'American Memory'
project - [at the end of 2001] a collection of 4,713 high res.,
zoomable MrSID images. "The focus of Map Collections is Americana and
Cartographic
Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps
and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered
by copyright protection". You can search by keyword, or browse the various
indexes (which seem to include all the formal American Memory pages, but
not necessarily those listed at the end, under 'Special Presentations'): Geographic
Location, Creator,
Subject
or Title
(for Help with Searching, see Searching Map
Collections). NB. It is worth trying more than one search
approach. 'Puerto' produced the following hits: Geographic Location
(21), the American
Memory Collections: Original Format: Maps search (23), and Subject
Index (24). [There are 17 images on Puerto Rico at
the Dawn of the Modern Age: Selected Cartographic Items].
N.B. It is now
possible to search simultaneously across the Library of Congress and
David Rumsey sites [see above], via MapLibraries.com
The main and subsidiary subject sections are listed below, and repeated
in their appropriate geographical section. 'Special Presentations' (at
the end) includes some groupings that are not formally part of 'American
Memory'.
The LC Photoduplication service provides printed copies and TIFF files of
the images, see: How to Order
Reproductions. This has a link to enlargeable images available for
sale from MuseumArchives.
Library of Congress - see also under Medium and small general
sites. {January 2002 - this entire section revised, with
several additions}
Marco
Capurro (a large selection [1200?] of low res., slow-loading,
images
of different areas and periods (at least, ancient-20th centuries), many
from the collection of Marco Capurro but others taken from other sites.
Unfortunately the maps are neither indexed nor, on the whole, arranged in
a logical order. If searching [Ctrl+F] for a title, remember to enter the
Italian form of the place-name. See also under Italy) {September,
2001}
University of Michigan
Library. 'Miscellaneous - a handful of maps' (selecting 'Browse all
images' gets 1,858 hits [from 108,000 images on the site as a
whole] very high res. images, viewable in seven sizes (up to
'triple extra large'); captions not always present yet;
alternatively, search from the main screen -
Digital Library Production Service, Image Services) {July,
2002}
see also Larger map dealer
sites [some of which carry hundreds, or even thousands of map
images for all parts of the world, arranged geographically, even if
most are low res.], and also under Web Projects
Ancestry.com.
'Map Center' ('several hundred historical maps from all areas
of the world' - however, the great majority are historical maps (later
reconstructions) - high res. via successive enlargements -
accessible via general and regional geographical indexes, a city index,
and subject categories [e.g. emigration, ethnic/religious, military, land
ownership]) {November, 2001}
Bologna,
Astronomical Observatory (select 'Globi celesti e terrestri' and
'Carte geografiche e celesti' for small selections of low res. images of,
respectively, globes and maps & charts)
British Library - see also the
online volume of the Beudeker Atlas, under Europe - 'Netherlands', and the
Roy map under Europe - 'British Isles -
Scotland'. A
growing number of BL maps can be seen, in low res. watermarked versions,
on the Heritage Image
Partnership site
Chicago,
Newberry Library. Slide Sets (low res. images accompanying
commentaries on Set 1 Ptolemy, Set 2 Ortelius and Set 20
'Nineteenth-century Images of the World for American School Children')
{March, 2002}
Florida (consortium). 'World Map
Collection' (201 high res., zoomable maps, mostly of Florida
but also the Americas, Africa, Holy Land, etc - State University of Florida, 'Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials Project'
(PALMM)) {December, 2002}
Graz,
Universitatsbibliothek (a selection of high res. images -
click on 'Karten', 'Schlaraffia' and 'Sammelatlas' [Corfu])
Legolas' Fantasy and
Medieval Maps (a selection of low to medium res. maps of various
parts of the world - most from other sites, for which permission is
stated to have been obtained) {March, 2001}
+ Library of
Congress. 'American Treasures' (an indefinite, but changing,
selection of enlargeable high res. images, including some maps.
First select from the 'List of Objects' what you want [perhaps, 'A New
World' or 'Mapping'] and then go to the relevant exhibition sections)
{February, 2002}
MapHist List
illustrations page (maintained by Peter van der Krogt, this includes
a miscellaneous assortment of images sent in by subscribers - most are
low res., 'for identification')
'
The Age of Discovery or Follow the Money' (seven enlarged but very
slow-loading, medium res. images of 15th & 16th century world and regional
maps - illustrating a map history course by Adele J. Haft) {March,
2002}
'Vor
500 Jahren: Die Wiedergeburt der Kartographie' (8 small images,
illustrating an article in German by Thomas Klöti, from Unipress:
Forschung und Wissenschaft an der Universität Bern 104, April 2000)
{February, 2002}
Yale Map
Collection (perhaps 100 [?] low to medium res. images, arranged
geographically and by collections, without any general index. Most are
to be found via 'Online Maps' but see also 'What's New - Exhibits' and
specifically Lanman Map
Collection , Cross
Collection, and Nautical
Charts. Other pages (some with repeated images) are listed under the
appropriate heading below)
A number of map dealers include descriptions (usually very brief)
and images of items currently for
sale. These tend to be the more standard, collectable maps, compared
to the rarities that may be found on institutional sites.
The following
links are to sites that include at least 100 images (and often far more),
of a reasonable size (or enlargeable), and with a good geographical and
date
coverage.
Typically, the images are arranged by region (hierarchically), which
makes it easy to find and browse a selection for your area of interest.
While the images will give a good idea of a map's appearance, they are
not sharp enough for study.
* indicates you can search the site for works by a particular mapmaker
or publisher
These map dealers were found
among approximately 300 (September 2002) listed under the special Oddens search for antiquarian links,
selecting
"Sellers of Cartographic Material - Antiquarian". See also Yahoo's
listing of Antique
map dealers and the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection's listing
of Map
Dealers - Antiquarian Maps.
[With apologies to any 'larger' dealer site that has
been overlooked. Please send a note to the Editor]
+ Ancient
World. Agrimensores (four small images from the 2001 exhibition 'Van
de Romeinse tot de 16de-eeuwse landmeters', with accompanying Flemish
text - Royal Library, Brussels) {August, 2002}
Celestial.
Carte geografiche e celesti (includes low res. charts by Petrucci and
Banet Panadès, M. Ricci's world map (part), a celestial chart by Schall
von Bell and astronomical diagrams - Università di Bologna)
Celestial.
Cellarius (25 enlargeable, medium res. images from Andreas Cellarius,
Atlas Coelestis, 1660 - Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
{July, 2002}
+ Celestial. 'Ciel
et Terre' (virtual exhibition of medieval ideas at the Bibliothèque
nationale de France, 1998-99 - high res. images)
Celestial -
Comets (14 enlargeable, medium res. images illustrating cometary
theory, from Stanislaus Lubienietski [Lubinetski], Theatrum
cometicum,
1665 - Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
Celestial.
'Goed gezien' (select 'Objectbeschrijvingen' and then 'Het heelal'
for 15 low res.images - accompanying an exhibition by Dirk de Vries) [for
a further selection see 'Goed gezien
/ achtergronden'] {April, 2001}
Celestial.
'The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr' (links to
images of the 30 plates on other sites, mostly from the Bibliothèque
nationale de France and the Astronomical Observatory of Brera,
accompanying bibliographical notes and references by Robert Harry van
Gent) {December, 2002}
+ Celestial.
'Tycho's Star Maps' (search for 'Tycho Brahe' for 10 low res. images of
celestial globes and star
charts - Emily Winterburn, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) {July,
2002}
Curiosities. 'A
Guide to Unusual Maps on the Web' (links arranged thus: Cartographic
Misconceptions; Alternate Geography; Maps of the Imagination, Stories
and Games; Maps of Life, Love, Marriage, and the Soul; Mapping New
"Geographies" - Bill Thoen)
Ebstorf
Map (Select 'Zur Karte' for the map and click on the area of interest
for a medium res. detail taken from the 1950s hand-coloured facsimile. The
inscriptions and place-names on that detail will be shown lower right in
German (by default) or Latin. There is also a place-name index - click on
the name to bring up the relevant detail. Select
'Hintergrundinformationen' for 'Et mundus, hoc est homo', an illustrated
essay by Martin Warnke) {March, 2001}
Ebstorf
world map (medium to high res. images, derived from the
facsimile of the 1950s, with transcriptions (in Latin and German) of the
inscriptions and place-names - University of Lüneburg) {February,
2002}
Ebstorf
World Map (enlargeable, but still low res. images of the Ebstorf and
six other medieval world maps and diagrams, with German commentary - Hans
Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
Ephemera - e.g. trade cards, advertisements - see the various
issues of MapForum
Escape maps see Silk maps
Globes
(14, very slow-loading - though probably high res. - full-screen
images of globes (1699-1873) from the Lanman Collection, Yale University
Library)
Globes. 'Les Globes de
Coronelli' (click on 'en images' for images, including 12 details of
the terrestrial globe and 11 details of the celestial - Bibliothèque
Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
+ Globes.
'Tycho's Star Maps' (search for 'Tycho Brahe' for 10 low res. images of
celestial globes and star
charts - Emily Winterburn, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) {July,
2002}
Indigenous
Peoples. 'Native Web' - Maps (links to identified maps on other sites
relating to tribal issues - Native Web: Resources for Indigenous Cultures
around the World) {December, 2001}
Medieval.
'A Medieval Atlas' (links pages from about.com, arranged by
Region/Place-name/Century/Topic, and also City & Town maps - most links
are to historical maps)
+ Medieval. 'Ciel et
Terre' (virtual exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France,
1998-99 - high res. images)
Medieval.
Ebstorf World Map (enlargeable, but still low res. images of the
Ebstorf and six other medieval world maps and diagrams, with German
commentary - Hans Zimmermann) {August, 2002}
Philately
(maps on stamps) (Menno-Jan's Stamp Museum: 'Carto-philatelics';
'East Africa's postal history'; 'Maps on stamps of the Netherlands' -
analytical site, with some examples using early maps - Menno-Jan Kraak)
Portolan
charts (four charts and an isolario) (fast-loading, high res.
enlargements, with commentary - Carol Urness, James Ford Bell Library).
See also 'Young
Navigators' (leading to: 'Travel through history'; 'Building blocks
in cartography'; 'Building blocks in geography'; 'The world revealed
through maps')
Portolan charts.
Battista Agnese [portolan atlas of nine charts and a world map, 1544]
(Library of
Congress, Geography & Map Division - high res. MrSID images, with the
ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
+
Portolan charts. Les Portulans (Carte Pisane, Vesconte, Dulcert,
Viladestes, G. de Maggiolo: small details - Bibliothéque Nationale
de France)
Road maps - also search [ctrl +F] for those listed under their
geographical heading and see also under Map Collecting
Silk (cloth) maps. 'US Cloth Maps
of World War 2' (enlargeable low res. images [select the map,
right click with the mouse and select 'View Image']: Army Air
Force (36 maps), Naval Air Combat Intelligence-Hydrographic Office (26
maps) - also history, bibliography and useful 'map identification'
details - John Rado) {February, 2001}
Stars see under Celestial
Statistical
maps ('Historische hoogtepunten van grafische verwerking: Statistische
kaarten' - Wim Neeleman and Heleen Verhage, Utrecht University)
+ Thematic
maps. 'Strijd om de Ruimte in Kaart' (Mapping the struggle for space -
a range of low res., thematic maps, in Dutch - exhibition organised by
Guus Borger and Jan Werner, 2000)
Towns. 'Historic
Cities' (enlargeable, very high res. images of early city
plans - initially (October 2001) 50 plans from Braun & Hogenberg but 300
others are due to follow - Historic Cities Center of the Department of
Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and
University Library ). See also under Web
Projects{October, 2001}
+ Vatican
Exhibit (Library of Congress) (a wide-ranging exhibition, including,
e.g., plans of Rome, Ptolemy, Buondelmonti, Jesuits in China - but slow
to load)
'World
War II maps by date' (a selection of low to medium res. images of
original maps - University of San Diego) {May, 2001}
Abraham
Ortelius (thumbnails of all 234 maps found in the various editions of
the Ortelius atlas, with commentary to each) {March, 2002}
+ 'Abraham
Ortelius (1527-1598): Patriarch of our atlas' (includes over 30 maps
from the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and Parergon - medium res.
images from the University Library, Amsterdam, 1998, with commentary in
Dutch) {March, 2001}
Van der Hagen en Atlas Beudeker (a good selection of high res.
17th century maps of various parts
of the world, from the Royal Library, The Hague, with the possibility to
zoom in at up to 16 times the size of the original image)
'Boston
School Geography' - Boston Daily Advertiser, 1830 (high res.
images of 25 of the 60 maps - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Libraries)
Waghenaer,
Spiegel der Zeevaerdt
[and a second sequence]
(together, 48 high res. images, which can be zoomed and panned -
Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis) {March and
April, 2001}
World maps (zoomable, medium to
high res., but slow-loading - a selection of 60 world maps,
1200-1700 from Richard B. Arkway, Inc. on the mapsage.com site)
{August, 2001}
World
maps (5 low res. images - Amsterdam University Library) {April,
2001}
World
maps (an assortment of low res. images of early world maps, many
with misspelled identification - Maritime New York Project) {December,
2001}
World maps (medium res.
images from the Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, Brussels)
'World maps
in ancient China' (over 20 maps, with very low res., slow-loading
images [sometimes multiple] and descriptions in Chinese) {December,
2002}
+ 'An
overview of cartography' (small selection of maps of the world, N.
America and Canada, selected by Edward Dahl - low to medium res.)
Gerard Mercator
(high res., but slow-loading, details of the 18 sections - select
'AD USUM NAVIGANTIUM', then 'Die Weltkarte 1569' and then click on 'Die
Karte' (for a scrollable, low res. image of the entire 1569 world
map/chart); 'en detail' (for the separate sheets); and 'Die Legenden'
(for the 16 legends - given only in German translation) - Wilhelm
Krücken) {November, 2001}
'Ptolemy's
World' (various versions of the Ptolemy world map enlargeable to
very high res. , though slow-loading - James Ford Bell Library,
University of Minnesota) {March, 2002}
Tabula Peutingeriana (partial, medium res. sections of the original
[c. 250 AD, covering parts of Europe, Africa and Asia] and the 1598
facsimile, and high res. sections of the entire 1887 facsimile -
Biblioteca Augustana, University of Augsburg) {March, 2002}
For medieval world maps see, under the name of each, or under
'Medieval', in Themes
Africa. Afriterra: the
Cartographic Free Library (32 slow-loading, but high res.,
enlarged images - initial samples for a project that aims to digitise
over 10,000 early maps of Africa - Afriterra Foundation Library, Boston.
See also the entry under Web
Projects) {September, 2001}
Africa
(Map & Imagery Library, University of Florida - high res. but
slow-loading images)
Africa
(four very high res. images - Michigan State University)
{April, 2001}
Africa
(12 slow-loading, medium res. images, 1570-1870 - Yale University
Library) {October, 2001}
Africa (clicking on one of the
map thumbnails brings up a page with small, low res. images of six early
maps of Africa - South African Government) {November, 2002}
Africa.
Discovery. 'L'Europe découvre l'Afrique' (a series of texts, linked
to related catalogue entries and illustrated with 80 maps and charts (the
total to increase during 2002), enlargeable to very high res. -
'Gallica', Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
Africa.
Early African Cartography (33 enlargeable, high res. maps,
1562-1940 - American Museum of Natural History, using maps (with
permission) from the New York Public Library and the British Library)
{November, 2002}
African
American Odyssey (a few maps relating to West Africa and the US -
select 'Object Checklist', then search for map - Library of
Congress - high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge
and select details)
Canaries.
'Atlas des Isles Canaries' (enlargeable, high res. images of
the preliminaries and 13 sheets of Leopold von Buch's 1836 atlas -
Proyecto Humboldt) {December, 2002}
Egypt - Cairo (140 high res. plans and views of the city,
arranged by century - University of California - Berkeley, Islamic Cities
Maps Collection)
America (low res. images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)
Americas (medium res.
images from the Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, Brussels)
+ America
('American Treasures of the Library of Congress. Reason Gallery B.,
Mapping and Recording' - a selection of low res. images)
'Maps
of the Americas - Historical Maps' (links to collections and single
images of maps relating to America, and particularly North America - The
Water Virtual Learning Centre (WVLC), University of Waterloo) {July,
2002}
+ 'Terra
Incognita: an online exhibition' (covering the Americas and the
Pacific, including medium res. maps and details, among them five from
Robert Morden's Geography Rectified, 1680 [click on the heading
'Maps'] - Alison Carrick, Washington University Libraries) {November,
2002}
The
Americas (39 slow-loading, medium res. images, 1550-1870) {October,
2001}
The 1562 Map of
America by Diego Gutierrez (John R. Hébert - Library of Congress,
Geography & Map Division - high res. MrSID image, with the ability to
zoom, enlarge and select details) [also available on the lcweb
site]
+ 'Fact,
Fiction & the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America'
(a few, low to medium res. maps included, mostly 16th-century America,
Mexico, etc. [see particularly sections 4 & 5 on Columbus; 7 'Inspiration
for Discoveries'; 12-15 travel, geography and reports] -
Laura Gutierrez-Witt) {January, 2002}
Martin
Waldseemüller (texts, bibliography and images - Carol Urness, James
Ford Bell Library)
Piri
Reis
(medium res. detail of Atlantic and South America - University of
California, Berkeley Library)
North America
(13 high res. images, from George Howard's and other collections,
focussing on North Carolina but several covering much of North America)
North
America (a selection of very high res. images - Michigan State
University) {April, 2001}
'Maps
of the Americas - Historical Maps' (links to a range of individual
maps and collections relating to American history - Water Virtual Learning
Centre, University of Waterloo) {July, 2002}
'The Barren
Lands. J.B. Tyrrell's Expeditions for the Geological Survey of Canada,
1892-1894' (covering the Nunavut region and northern Manitoba and
Saskatchewan - over 40 high res., zoomable MrSID maps: 'Browse the
Collection', selecting 'Maps' (which produces a list), select an item,
then 'View Item Record', clicking on the 'All Pages' link - University of
Toronto) {March, 2002}
British
Columbia (10 low res. images - University of British Columbia Library)
{April, 2001}
British
Columbia Archives (enlargeable, high res. images - scroll down
to 'Selected Cartographic Records in Digital Format')
Québec. Cartes
géographiques (about one thousand cartographic images, greatly
enlargeable, high res. maps relating to Québec province and the
Northeast in general, accessible via four indexes: title, author, date,
area - Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Division des Collections
spéciales) {February, 2001}
Panoramic
maps, 1847-1929 ('American Memory') (Library of Congress - high
res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select
details - covering B.C., Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec)
United
States (select 'Historical Maps', then 'General' for 22 high
res. zoomable images of various parts of the US, with two world maps
- see also under Battles (3 images), Exploration (3), Panoramic Maps
(68), Railroads (26) - National Geographic 'Map Machine') {April,
2002}
'American
Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850' (over 750
maps (1660-1850), in medium or high res. MrSID format; access is
via text-supported sections (select 'Geographical Area') or by searching,
or you can browse a thumbnail listing by selecting 'Map Collection in
Image Gate' then 'Browse this collection' - New York Public Library)
{December, 2002}
De
Bry. 'Les habitants du Nouveau Monde' (enlargeable, medium res.
details from De Bry's engravings of the native Americans of eastern N.
America, with details of the map, 1590-96, from the New York Public
Library copy - Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July, 2002}
Historical
maps of the US and the Americas (27 high res. images, viewable
with Java or MrSID Plugin - University of Alabama. It is recommended that
you look at their Help page)
{April, 2001}
Lewis and Clark (GIS Browser) (about 30 high res.
19th century maps geo-referenced with modern USGS maps, satellite
imagery, etc., including interfaces for the GIS novice and expert - David
Rumsey) {November, 2002}
'Maps
of the Americas - Historical Maps' (links to collections and single
images of maps relating to America, and particularly North America - The
Water Virtual Learning Centre (WVLC), University of Waterloo) {July,
2002}
Cities (a large, alphabetically-arranged, assortment of high
res. plans of US cities, mostly 1890-1920 - Perry-Castañeda Library
Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin)
Cities.
'American Cities' (16 high res. but slow-loading city plans -
mostly New York and Boston but including Detroit and other parts of
America, 1572-1852 - Yale University Library) {October, 2001}
Fire Insurance
(useful links from 'Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet') -
see also under the specific state in US States & Regions{July,
2002}
Mapping the
National Parks (Acadia, Grand Canyon, Great Smoky Mountains,
Yellowstone: Library of Congress - high res.
MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
NOAA. 'Historical Map and
Chart Collection' (a large collection of high res. images of
charts, maps and plans, mostly 19th century - offering access via either
'States sorted by
Type' or 'Type sorted
by State', among which is a large grouping of Topographic Maps
concerning California, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon,
Virginia, including, e.g., Washington & vicinity, 90 sheets (1888),
Cincinnati, 48 sheets (1912), and Oregon quads, about 40 sheets (1947))
Panoramic
Maps 1847-1929 (Library of Congress - high res. MrSID images,
with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
Panoramic
Maps (select 'Historical Maps' for 68 high res. zoomable
images of late 19th and early 20th century U.S. towns - National
Geographic 'Map Machine') {April, 2002}
Panoramic
Maps (a commercial site, offering low res. sample images of numerous
US towns, arranged by state) {September, 2001}
Road
maps. 'Maps from History' (high res. maps of the U.S. and
specific regions, but 'due to space limitations, only a few historic road
maps will be scanned and posted at any given time' - Robert V. Droz)
+ 'Road
maps: the American Way' (high res. images of U.S. road maps
and their covers - Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic
Education, University of Southern Maine - exhibition curated by Robert
French) {May, 2001}
United States -
California. Historic Topographic Maps of Californiahigh res.
MrSID images of USGS maps, 1895-present, accessible via quad name, place
name or clickable map - Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of
California - Berkeley. NB You must set your browser to accept cookies)
{December, 2001}
United
States - California. Works Progress Administration (WPA) Digital
Archive (searching for 'map' brings up a browsing list of 345
high res. Mr SID images (each with full catalogue record) from the
1933-39 land use survey of the City of Los Angeles - Archival Research
Center, University of Southern California [originals from the Huntington
Library]) {May, 2002}
United States -
Connecticut (a large selection of high res. images, at
state/county/town, etc., level, from the University of Connecticut MAGIC site
(though many of the images are from other collections), covering the
pre-1800 period, county wall maps, hydrographic charts, and the US Serial
Set, with transportation maps following - JPEG, SID and JAVA options)
{August, 2002}
United
States - Connecticut (select 'Connecticut Georeferenced Historical
Maps' for nine maps (1792-1859), which can be added to a GIS-like ArcView
allowing you to
zoom into your area of interest; there are also Topographic Map Mosaics
from the 1890s onwards - University of Connecticut MAGIC site)
{December, 2002}
United
States - east coast (an assortment of low res. images of East Coast
and whaling related maps, several with misspelled identification -
Maritime New York Project) {December, 2001}
United
States - eastern states (links to individual maps covering: Arkansas,
Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Virginia - Neville Heritage Society)
United States -
Florida. 'Exploring Florida' (over 400 high res. maps and
details, arranged by period, of which perhaps 200 are original rather
than historical - Florida Center for Instructional Technology)
{January, 2002}
+ United States.
'Florida, the Making of a State: a Cartographic Adventure' (46
entries, including about 20 shown as low res. images, with descriptions,
in the Exhibition
Checklist; see also texts about the discovery of Florida, etc. 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. 'World
Map Collection' (select 'Florida' for 116 high res., zoomable
maps - State University of Florida, 'Publication of Archival, Library &
Museum Materials Project' (PALMM)) {December, 2002}
United
States - Georgia (low res. images from the Hargrett Library Rare Map
Collection, University of Georgia Libraries)
United States - Louisiana (a
search for maps produced a long list (17th century-recent) of
enlargeable, slow-loading, high res.maps of North America and
Louisiana; about 20 are pre-1800 - Louisiana State University Digital
Library) {May, 2002}
United
States - Massachusetts. F.W. Beers Company Atlases (high res.
MrSID images of 19th century maps covering Berkshire, Hampden and
Hampshire counties, available in GIF, SID and JAVA formats - University
of Massachusetts, Special Collections and Archives Division of the Du
Bois Library)
United
States - Massachusetts. 'Town Centers' (medium res. details of USGS
topographic maps, 1885-6, showing the centres of c.100 towns - University
of Massachusetts, Amherst Libraries)
United States
- Massachusetts - Boston. 'Mapping Boston' (20 high res.
images ranging from world maps to maps of Boston (1486-1999) from the
Norman B.Leventhal Collection, related to the book Mapping Boston
by Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner) {October, 2001}
United States - Massachusetts -
Boston (high res. MrSID images of 18 maps of the Boston area
(1776-1897) mounted on the GIS Browser on the David Rumsey site)
{March, 2002}
United
States - Michigan (a selection of very high res. images -
Michigan State University) {April, 2001}
+ United
States - Michigan. 'Mapping Michigan' (low res. images: 'a virtual
presentation developed from an exhibit created by the Clarke Historical
Library', divided into 'Exploration', 'Ownership', 'Transportation' -
Frank Boles and Evelyn Leasher, 1998) {November, 2002}
+ United
States - Michigan. 'What's Cool about Maps?' (7 low res. maps from the
exhibition at the Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing, 2001 - select 'The
Maps' for captions of all 29 exhibited maps) {May, 2002}
United States -
Middle Atlantic. 'American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to
1850' (over 750 maps (1660-1850), in medium or high res.
MrSID format; access is via text-supported sections (select
'Geographical Area) or by searching, or you can browse a thumbnail
listing by selecting 'Map Collection in Image Gate' then 'Browse this
collection' - New York Public Library) {December, 2002}
United States -
New England (very high res., detailed images of over 1100 USGS
topographic maps giving complete geographical coverage of New England
from the 1890s to 1950s - University of New Hampshire, Dimond Library)
United States - New
England. Reisbeschrijvingen Nieuw-Nederland (click on the
title-screen map and you are taken to a medium res. image of Visscher's
Novi Belgii, which is handled in an unusual way with at least 14
hotspots leading to explanatory notes, in Dutch - forming part of 'De
Wereld van Peter Stuyvesant')
United
States - New York State (five geological maps (1905-06) from the
New York State Museum Bulletin) used for technical experimentation
by Columbia University
United States -
New York State. 'American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to
1850' (over 750 maps (1660-1850), in medium or high res.
MrSID format; access is via text-supported sections (select
'Geographical Area) or by searching, or you can browse a thumbnail
listing by selecting 'Map Collection in Image Gate' then 'Browse this
collection' - New York Public Library) {December, 2002}
United States -
North Carolina (13 high res. images, from George Howard's and
other collections, several covering much of North America). [See also
under Carolina above]
United States -
Southeast (select 'Southeastern U.S.' or 'Other Southeastern States'
[at the foot of the screen] for 17 high res. images, viewable with
Java or MrSID Plugin - University of Alabama. It is recommended that you
look at their Help page)
{April, 2001}
United
States - Texas (32 high res. maps of Texas and places within
it. 'Map Collection Search' gives access by area, subject, cartographer
or type, and clicking on the map number when a thumbnail is shown leads
to a fuller description, where the image can be enlarged [there is no
browsing list] - Texas State Library and Archives Commission)
{December, 2001}
United
States - Texas. 'Map Collection Favorites' (five general and 19
county maps, low res. images - 'Staff Favorite Republic and State of
Texas Maps' - Texas General Land Office Map Collection) {July,
2002}
United
States - Texas. Texas General Land Office Map Collection (searchable
database of 72,003 records [July 2002], with option to 'Display only maps
with image available'; it is not possible to select all the records with
images, but a search for Texas retrieved 1,158 entries;
there are about 17,000 images altogether (of all kinds). NB The
enlargeable but low res. images are slow to load) {July, 2002}
United States -
Utah. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (MrSID images covering Salt Lake
City, Park City, Logan, Provo, and Ogden (1867-1969) - J Willard Marriott
Library, University of Utah. Requires MrSID viewer plugin) {October,
2001}
United
States - Washington State (enlargeable, high res. images of
over 300 maps, viewable via web browser, Java viewer or MrSID, and
searchable in various ways including via the illustrated 'Early
Washington Maps Timeline' - Washington State University and the
University of Washington Libraries) {October, 2001}
+ United
States - West (a wide-ranging exhibition with medium res. images of
North America and its regions - University of Virginia)
+ United States -
West. 'Heading West' ( one of a pair of exhibitions [with 'Touring
West'] with enlargeable high res. images - New York Public
Library, spring-summer 2001 - see also site map
(listing 16 maps)) {March, 2001}
United States
- West. Lewis and Clark (GIS Browser) (about 30 high res.
19th century maps geo-referenced with modern USGS maps, satellite
imagery, etc., including interfaces for the GIS novice and expert - David
Rumsey) {November, 2002}
United
States - Wisconsin (high res. county maps from the Rand
McNally New Standard Atlas of the World, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago,
1901)
United
States - Wisconsin. 'Bird's Eye Views' (four, medium res., late 19th
century details from Wisconsin towns, illustrating the article by Tom
McKay, Wisconsin Historical Society, in: Exchange (newsletter
published by the Office of Local History at the Wisconsin Historical
Society), 29, 2 (1987) - updated 2002) {July, 2002}
+ Brazil. 'A
nova Lusitânia: a cartografia do Brasil nas colecções da Biblioteca
Nacional' (an online exhibition under five headings, each leading to
a list of maps, which in turn are linked to a catalogue description and a
high res image of each; there appears to be no overall listing of
what seems to be a collection of 324 items - Biblioteca Nacional)
{December, 2002}
Brazil.
'Biblioteca cartográfica' (12 high res. maps of America, S.
America and Brazil - Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon) {December,
2002}
Caribbean. 'World Map
Collection' (select 'Caribbean Basin' for 31 high res.,
zoomable maps - State University of Florida, 'Publication of Archival,
Library & Museum Materials Project' (PALMM)) {December, 2002}
Cuba
(7 low res. maps and details showing Cuba - Biblioteca Nacional "José
Martí", Cuba) {November, 2001}
New World Maps & Site
Plans (a few, medium res. images, both originals and reconstructions
- Athena Publications Inc.) {April, 2001}
Peru. Guaman
Poma - 'El primer Nueva corónica y buen gobierno' (16th century
chronicle by a native Andean - select 'Table of Drawings' and search for
'map' to retrieve medium res. images from 'The chapter of this kingdom
and its cities and towns', nos.344-83 - Royal Library, Copenhagen)
{September, 2001}
Venezuela.
'Mapas e informes clásicos' (19 slow-loading but high res.
images (1734-1999) - PDVSA, the national petroleum company of Venezuela)
{October, 2001}
+ China in
Maps - a Library Special Collection (62 images, mostly maps and
charts of the World, Asia and China; clicking on the image takes you to a
catalogue entry (in English or Chinese) and clicking on that to a
slow-loading PDF image that can be zoomed to high res.; the
commentary (in English or Chinese) is linked to catalogue entries and to
lists of maps by a given cartographer - exhibition 2002, Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology) {September, 2002}
China.
'World maps in ancient China' (over 20 maps, with very low res.,
slow-loading images [sometimes multiple] and descriptions in Chinese)
{December, 2002}
East
Asian Map Collection ("Sea of Korea" Map Collection) (well over
100 medium res., full-screen maps of the world, Asia, east Asia,
China, Sea of Korea, etc., 1626-1895 - Archival Research Center,
University of Southern California) {May, 2002}
East Indies. 'Atlas
Mutual Heritage' ('a data-bank [in English] providing a systematic
survey of VOC [Dutch East India Company] trading posts and settlements
and illustrative material of these locations' - 'Internal
arrangement of the system' refers to "c. 473 manuscript maps and
drawings at the Nationaal Archief", which can be searched for in English
or Dutch (by location etc. or, for maps in general, by selecting
'Combined Search', then 'Keyword', then 'map/chart/plan'), leading to
high res. but slow-loading images) {July, 2002}
East
Indies (Dutch) (fast-loading, high res. images from P.R. Bos
& J.F. Niermeyer, Schoolatlas der Geheele Aarde, 1935)
'Far East
and the Pacific' (5 medium res., slow-loading, maps, 1620-1831- Yale
University Library) {October, 2001}
Holy
Land (high res. but slow-loading images - Map & Imagery
Library, University of Florida)
Holy Land. 'World Map
Collection' (select 'Middle East' for 13 high res., zoomable
maps - State University of Florida, 'Publication of Archival, Library &
Museum Materials Project' (PALMM)) {December, 2002}
India
(an assortment of original and historical maps, from different sources;
some, such as the 15 sheets from the Constable series of 1893, at high
res. - Ian Poyntz, RootsWeb) {July, 2002}
Japan
(in Japanese: apparently linking to ten high res., enlargeable maps
and panoramas - Tohoku University) {December, 2002}
Japan
(three high res., enlargeable maps, identified in English -
University of Tsukuba Library) {December, 2002}
Japan
(in Japanese: at least seven maps, enlargeable to medium res.)
{December, 2002}
Japan
(enlargeable high res. images of maps in the Sumita Collection,
Kobe University [all in Japanese]) {March, 2002}
Japan.
'Antique Map Digital Image Archives' (notes, in English and Japanese,
about seven sites showing early maps of Japan, some with indexes and
bibliographies - Kazuko Sakaguchi: in Reischauer Institute Newsletter
Tsushin 8, 1, Spring 2002 - with a summary on the Duke University
site) {July, 2002}. The sites are:-
Japan.
'Cartes de Kyoto' (there does not appear to be an index; entering
'Kyoto' into 'Title' produced various low res. (mostly modern) maps of
Kyoto; very slow-loading) {March, 2002}
+ Japan.
[Exhibition of maps from Muroga Nobuo's collection] (the exhibition
[all in Japanese], comprising low res. maps (both Japanese and Western);
'Click Here' for the introductory text, and then select 'Next' for the Table
of Contents of the Muroga homepage - Kyoto University, 1998) {March,
2002}
Japan. The
Lanman Map Collection (39 medium res., slow-loading, maps, 1511-1892
- various parts of the world, with a number relating to Japan - Yale
University Library) {October, 2001}
Japan.
Treasures of Keio University (in Japanese, includes enlarged details
of four maps of the Keio area of Tokyo [Edo], 1851-61) {April,
2002}
Jerusalem. 'Ancient
maps of Jerusalem' (a number of enlargeable, high res.
images, available in different formats including MrSID, searchable by
author or date and linked to a catalogue entry; the index [under
'Gallery'] is to follow later - the Jewish National and University
Library and the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem) {December, 2002}
Madaba
Map (good res. details - Michele Piccirillo, Franciscan
Archaeological Institute). Also on John Abela's page
Mauritius.
'Maps of Mauritius' (four slow-loading, low res. maps, with brief
comments - click on the 'History' link for general background information
- Encyclopaedia Mauritiana). [Information and images repeated on Historical Maps of Mauritius]
{July, 2002}
Russia - see also under the Europe heading, which may
include Asiatic Russia
Siberia
Mapping (nine low res. maps of Russia, 1570-1786, some concentrating
on the east - L. Frolova, National Library of Russia, 1999) [also in Russian]
{February, 2002}
Turkey in maps (small,
low res. images, arranged by period - Ali Turan) {March, 2001}
Australia. Canberra,
National Library of Australia (high res. images of c.800
maps, most from the Nan Kivell collection, c.100 from the Ferguson rare
map collection, the Doncker atlas (1659), etc.; accessible only
via the catalogue, e.g. for the Nan Kivell items, ignore the
button labelled 'Maps' and select instead 'Main Catalogue', then
'Catalogue Search', then from the drop-down menu 'Call number' and type
in 'Map NK', which produces an awkward browsing list; alternatively, if
you know what you want, search the catalogue and, if the map has been
digitised, a URL will be shown) {December, 2002}
Australia
(c.25 maps of the World, Australia, etc., high res. and zoomable
(with plug-in) - National Library of Australia)
Australia (an untitled selection of 13 'maps' of various parts of
Australia, enlargeable to medium res. - from 'Mapping Conquest: South
Africa and Australia') {December, 2001}
Australia - New South
Wales. The Parish Map Preservation Project (over 30,000
high res., MrSID images of County, Municipal, Parish, and Town maps
[together 7,500 maps in various editions, some spread over two or
more images - rising, in future, to over 35,000 images, once the current
editions are added] and the series of (often earlier) Pastoral maps;
access is via Parish name, although a graphical front-end is being
considered; the java version of the viewer provides the best
functionality; for permission to re-use, contact the Copyright Officer - Land
and Property Information [part of the New South Wales Department of
Information Technology and Management]). See also under Web Projects{July, 2002}
Australia
- Victoria (and Melbourne) (high res. images (22 of Victoria,
50 of Melbourne), with the ability
to zoom, enlarge and select details - Map Collection, University of
Melbourne)
Europe. Town plans.
'Historic Cities' (enlargeable, very high res. images of early
city plans - initially (October 2001) 50 plans from Braun & Hogenberg but
300 others are due to follow - Historic Cities Center of the Department of
Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and
University Library ). See also under Web
Projects{October, 2001}
Europe.
Town plans. Stadsgezichten (43 high res. images of early
European towns, which can be zoomed and panned - Universiteitsbibliotheek
Leiden, Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis) {April, 2001}
Europe.
Town plans. 'European Cities' (12 high res. but slow-loading
city plans - mostly from the British Isles - Yale University Library)
{October, 2001}
Europe.
Willem and Joan Blaeu (over 100 maps, viewable in three [slow-loading]
resolutions, including high res., from an incomplete copy of volume
1 of Blaeu's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [1645], comprising 'Europa,
Germania, Germania Inferior' (i.e. eastern and northern Europe, Germany
and the Netherlands) - Charles E.Young Research Library, UCLA) {August,
2002}
Europe. World War 1.
Trenches on the web (a selection of medium res. images,
mostly of France, 'reproduced
from sets published by The Battery Press in conjunction with the Imperial
War Museum') {April, 2001}
Central & Eastern
Europe (51 high res. maps from the Comprehensive Atlas and
Geography of the World (published by Blackie and Sons, 1882) - FEEFHS
East European Map Room)
Central &
Eastern Europe (12 medium res., slow-loading, maps - mostly by Rollos
1766 - Yale University Library) {October, 2001}
+ Alps.
'La Montagne Découverte: Exposition Médiathèque' (about six low to
medium res. maps, both printed and manuscript, with commentary, focussing
on the French Alps - Chambéry, Médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
{July, 2002}
Balkans
[select 'Walker Collection'] (high res. images, with the
ability to zoom, enlarge and select details - Map Collection,
University of Melbourne)
Belarus
(a selection of high res. details from various 19th and 20th
century maps) {July, 2002}
Belgium
(enlargeable, very high res. city plans, images from eight
collections by Beaulieu, late 17th century - Kyoto University Library)
{November, 2002}
Belgium.
'Patrimoine Cartographique de Wallonie' (15,454
cartographic documents of various types, viewable in high res.
MrSID format, once you have downloaded the DjVu Plug-in; searchable only in
French at this stage, by first selecting 'Walloniae' [the southern,
French-speaking part of Belgium] or 'hors
[outside] Wallonie', then selecting from a place-name index; comprising:
matrices Popp (12,882 images), Plans Popp (768 files),
topographic maps (1054 files), cartographic and topographic postcards
(750 images) - Ministère wallon de l'Equipement et des Transports)
{August, 2002}
British
Isles (7 medium res., slow-loading, maps, 1616-1830 - Yale University
Library) {October, 2001}
British
Isles. 'European Cities' (12 high res. but slow-loading city
plans - mostly from the British Isles - Yale University Library)
{October, 2001}
British
Isles. John Speed Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine
(high res. images (enlargeable or with pre-selected details) of
[as at May 2002] three of the maps, 29 cities and towns, title-pages, and
map details (heraldry, coins, costume by rank, buildings, royalty, stones
- Maryanne Cline Horowitz) {May, 2002}
+ British Isles -
England. 'The Ordnance Survey' (search for 'Ordnance Survey' for
various low to medium res. images of
maps and surveying instruments - Emily Winterburn and Rob Warren,
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) {July, 2002}
British Isles -
England - Durham. 'Pictures in Print' (catalogue and thumbnails of
printed
maps and topographical prints of County Durham created before 1860. Once
a thumbnail has been retrieved via a search, you are offered access to
220 zoomable
high res. maps (out of 1,770 items in total) via the downloadable
plug-in, ER Mapper Image Web Server)
{August, 2001 - amended January 2002}
British
Isles - England - Hampshire ('Old Hampshire mapped':
enlargeable, fast-loading, high res. images of 16 maps, each with
accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers, feature
details, etc. - a highly imaginative site - Jean and Martin Norgate,
1996-99) {March, 2001}
British
Isles - England - London. 'The Bolles Collection on the History of
London: London Atlas' (a range of maps from 1600 (reconstruction),
via Booth (1889-90) and other 19th century maps, to Bartholomew (1999),
with GIS functionality (on which see FAQ).
A large and complex site, including 19th century maps and 17-19th century
prints. "A comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and
resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and
maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. The digitized maps
are linked to each other, to relevant source texts, and to illustrations
of the locations as they appeared at the time or at present." Tisch
Library, Tufts College) {May, 2002}
British
Isles - England - London. 'A History of the London Tube Maps' (1905-present: 26 enlargeable, slow-loading high res. maps, with brief
commentary - 'Transport for London, Reproduced with kind permission of
London's Transport Museum'. NB the site seems to require Internet
Explorer and/or cookies to be enabled) {November, 2002}
British Isles - England - London.
'Images of London' (enlargeable, fast-loading high res. images
of six
maps of London (1705-1830), with place-name indexes and the ability to
compare the same detail on up to three maps - includes the 24-sheet
Rocque map (1746) and the large Greenwood map (1830), with direct access
via their indexes of 1500 and 5000 names respectively and a special
comparison feature between them. This
is part of the steadily expanding 6000-image 'MOTCO UK Directory and
Image Database - Antique Maps, Prints & Books') {May, 2001}
British Isles - England - London (includes Waterworks map (1856) and
Reynolds map (1857-9) and details of other maps of London - very
fast-loading, high res., enlargeable images forming part of the John
Snow site)
British
Isles - England - Sussex ('Old Sussex Mapped: Two centuries of Sussex
County Maps': enlargeable, fast-loading, high res. images of 10
maps, each with accompanying notes and bibliography, indexes, gazetteers,
feature details, etc. - Dominic Fontana [closely based on the highly
imaginative Hampshire
site created by Jean and Martin Norgate]) {November, 2002}
British Isles -
England and Wales (enlargeable high res. images of all the
plates from Thomas Badeslade and William Henry Toms Chorographia
Britanniæ, 1742, some in variant states, and with bibliographical
commentary [NB the large images appear entire, after a delay] - Alan
Yates) {November, 2002}
British Isles - Great
Britain (medium to high res. [when zoomed], about 85,000
large-scale maps
(1846-99) accessible via place-name or co-ordinate - Landmark /Ordnance
Survey)
British
Isles - Scotland. 'Early maps of Scotland 1560-1928' (about 800
high res. MrSID images,
including Gordon and Adair MSS, and atlases by Blaeu, Wood and Thomson,
searchable by geographic area (Scotland, counties, coasts, towns -
arranged chronologically) and personal name - National Library of
Scotland) {July, 2002}
British Isles - Scotland. Timothy
Pont's mapping of Scotland in the late 16th century (very high
res., zoomable MrSID images of all 77 maps, providing a clearer view
than the original, combined with a comprehensive examination and
footnoted analysis of the maps, and biographies of their makers -
National Library of Scotland) {August, 2001}
British Isles - Scotland. William
Roy map (1747-55) (thumbnail coverage, with descriptions, of the
entire military map of Scotland held in the British Library - access to
the medium res. images is for subscribers only via password. The
Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN) site contains other
Scottish maps) {August, 2001}
Denmark. Danish
cadastral maps (Select 'Historical Maps Prototype System' for
2,925 high res., enlargeable MrSID images, selectively covering
all of Denmark - part of the Digital Historical Maps project. Images can
be selected from an index or via a clickable map. There are versions of
the site in Danish, English, German and Swedish) {October, 2001}
Denmark. 'Danmark før og nu' [Denmark
today and yesterday] (click on "Danmark før og nu" twice (from
'Mest til fritid' on the first screen, and above
'Internet Explorer 5.0' on the second screen) to compare chosen parts of
Denmark from an 18th/19th century and a modern map - Kort &
Matrikelstyrelsen) {August, 2002}
East
Prussia.
'Die Endersch-Karte des Ermlands von 1755' (slow-loading but
high res. images of the 12-sheet wall-map by Johannes Friedrich
Endersch 'Tabula Geographica Episcopatum Warmiensem In Prussia
Exhibiens', with a gazetteer of hundreds of place-names linked to the map
via a superimposed alpha-numeric grid - Thomas Salein) [see also 'Landkarte von Ostpreußen, 1917'] {December, 2001}
Estonia (27
medium res., slow-loading maps of Estonia ['Livonia'], the Baltic
States, Russia and Scandinavia, 16th-18th centuries, National Library of
Estonia) {November, 2002}
Finland.
'1600-luvun maakirjakartat' (several hundred estate plans, by
Jonas and Anders Streng (1634-46), available in three different
resolutions, including high res. - see full index - text
throughout in Finnish) {March, 2002}
Finland.
'Keski-Suomi kartoilla' (click on "11kaartaa" for 11 enlargeable
high res. maps of Central Finland, 16-19th century: land survey,
parish, local, hunting maps, etc. - Finnica - Orientation Centre and
Network for Finnish Culture and Heritage, Jyväskylä) {September,
2002}
France (5
medium res., slow-loading, maps, 1575-1766 - Yale University Library)
{October, 2001}
France.
Catalogue des fonds culterels numérisés [en France] (describing a
number of digitisation projects in France involving early maps, most
available only locally or via CD-ROM - selecting 'Recherche croisée',
then 'Choisir un type de document' = 'carte' produced 45 hits, 'atlas'
11 and 'plan*' 404) {November, 2002}
+ France.
'La Montagne Découverte: Exposition Médiathèque' (about six low to
medium res. maps, both printed and manuscript, with commentary, focussing
on the French Alps - Chambéry, Médiathèque Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
{July, 2002}
France. 'Voyages en
France' (a series of texts, linked to related catalogue entries and
to be illustrated with about 1,000 maps, enlargeable to very
high res. - 'Gallica', Bibliothèque Nationale de France) {July,
2002}
France -
Lyon. 'Atlas de Trudaine pour la généralité de Lyon' (select
'Consultation' for 36 entries, each with multiple high res. images,
with a hyperlinked description [click on the particular 'Notice'] - ARCHIM,
la banque d'images numériques du Centre historique des Archives
nationales) {July, 2002}
France
- Normandy. D-Day (June 6, 1944) - Maps (four high res.
secret maps of Omaha Beach prepared for the invasion - Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection, courtesy of Tim Roop) {November, 2002}
France -
Paris (100 low res. details of plans, 1716-1887 - Barry Bergdoll)
France - Paris (five
historical maps (1552-1779), enlargeable to very high res.)
France -
Voreppe (high res. details and analysis from the 1759 Dupuy
map) {April, 2001}
France -
Yvelines (a large and complex site, including an archival collection
of high res., enlarged [sometimes considerably], but slow-loading,
images of local, national and foreign maps and plans, e.g. 'Plans
d'intendance'; and, via Série A, 'sélection de documents':- 'Hydrographie'
(a few images of French canals and rivers, plus the Suez Canal) and 'Pays/lieux'
- Archives départementales des Yvelines et de l'ancien département de
Seine-et-Oise) {November, 2002}
Germany. 'Bildindex der Kunst und
Architektur' (an index to photographs of material, including maps, in
German collections, with ordering instructions; searching for
karte* produced 1,875 hits) {November, 2002}
Germany. 'Historical
Eastern Germany' (various slow-loading, high res., late 19th
century maps (some in sections) - Hauke Fehlberg) {December,
2001}
Germany.
'Kaiserreich - Kolonien - Marine' (select Landkarten
for high res. images of (mostly early 20th century) maps of Germany
and its dominions - part of a large site, arranged by region, period and
theme, comprising sections titled: Das Deutsche Kaiserreich; Die Deutschen
Kolonien; Die Kaiserliche Marine; Die Donaumonarchie Österreich-Ungarn)
{August, 2002}
Germany - Pomerania.
'Geometric maps' (Select 'Historical Maps Prototype System' for 131
high res., enlargeable MrSID images of late 17th century maps of
the Griefswald and Stralsund region from the archives of the University
of Greifswald - part of the Digital Historical Maps project. Images can
be selected from an index or via a clickable map. There are versions of
the site in Danish, English, German and Swedish) {October, 2001}
Germany
- Swabia (10 high res. details covering Schwaben, Bodensee and
Markdorf)
Greece
(six slow-loading, medium res. maps of Greece from four 16th and 17th
editions of Ptolemy [Adobe Acrobat] - National Map Library of Greece)
{December, 2001}
+ Hungary.
'The Tápió region on old maps' (13 low res. maps and details,
1477-1930, with accompanying text in Hungarian - travelling exhibition: 'A
Tápió-vidék régi térképeken: Millenniumi térképtörténeti vándorkiállítás'
- Török Zsolt) {July, 2002}
Iceland
(215, low to medium res.,
pre-1900 maps, with a (slow) zoom facility, leading to very low res.
enlargements. 'Search'
allows you to select by keyword, period or country of origin - National
and University Library of Iceland)
Italy. 'Atlas of
Napoleonic Cartography in Italy' [1795-1815] (use the Table of
Contents, which highlights (in blue) the original documents, including
eight, enlargeable, high res. maps of north Italy and Elba and 18
pages of R. Schouany's sketch-book survey of the Piedmont Region, 1805-9,
from the Archives de la guerre (SHAT) at Vincennes - a 'pilot project':
Anne Godlewska, Queen's University) {November, 2002}
Italy. Mappe
di cittá italiane ed altre mappe antiche diverse (low res. map of
Italy and plans of Italian cities from Francesco Scotto's Itinerario
d'Italia, 1761 - Marco Capurro. See also further scattered Italian
images among the 1200 (?) listed further down that page, including a
large selection on Genova, and a separate listing of Cartografia
Ligure) [This site is also listed under Large general sites] {September,
2001}
Italy.
Towns (sample, low res. images [the enlargement option was
inoperative] of Italian cities (15th-18th centuries) including plans -
select 'Iconografia Urbana - I prototipi'- Università degli Studi di
Napoli "Federico II", Centro Studi sull' Iconografia della città
europea) {November, 2001}
+ Italy -
Rome (exhibit overview, including a number of early plans of Rome -
click to enlarge but low res.)
Italy
- Rome. Imago II Project ("about 5,000 digital colour photos of maps
and manuscripts, 25,000 colour scans of ancient maps and parchments,
100,000 greyscale scans of cadastre and notarial registers" - highly
enlargeable, high res. MrSID images; for a brief overview in English
see Virtual reading room, the 'Project overview', or look at the Introduzione [select 'Documenti'] (in Itali
an) or, for a guide to searching, the 'Presentazione' for the particular series - Archivio di Stato di Roma). [NB You must register to access the images - see also under Web Projects]
Netherlands. Beudeker Atlas (The volume of 134 maps entitled 'Conquesten der
Vereende Nederlanden', from the British Library, with the possibility to
zoom in at up to 16 times the size of the original image)
Netherlands.
Dutch City Maps (1860's) - Kuyper Atlas (hundreds of enlargeable,
fairly high. res., pdf images [requiring Adobe Acrobat Reader] of most
Dutch towns, arranged according to the 11 provinces, with an alphabetical
index to each; the quality is not as good as the gif versions of the same
maps, listed below, under 'Gemeente Atlas van Nederland' -
DutchGenealogy.com) {May, 2002}
Noord-Brabant,
1868 (167 maps, reached also via a clickable index map ['interactieve
kaart'])
Noord-Holland,
1865-70 (137 maps - Don Arnoldus/Rob Kuijsten) [also Noord-Holland,
1868' (a selection, from the 137 sheets, at various scales, reached
via a place-name index - Don Arnoldus)]
Netherlands - North Holland.
'Noord-Hollandse Beeldbank' (in Dutch: 'image database with old
photos, post cards, drawings,
views, maps, etc., 1500-' - click on "Klik hier om beelden te zoeken...";
then, selecting 'Cartografie' and 'zoek' produced 604 largish (but
not enlargeable) thumbnail images) {August, 2001}
Norway (22
enlargeable high res. manuscript maps relating to Karl XII's
attempt to conquer Norway in 1716 and 1718 [click on 'Vis alle kartene'
to access the thumbnails]; accompanying text in Norwegian, though an
English version is planned - Kartsamlingen, National Library of Norway)
{August, 2002}
Norway (a list of URLs
for 15, low res., jpg images of MS. maps of Norway - there is no
separate documentation for the images but the host MS could be searched
for on the BIBSYS library
database - University Library, Trondheim)
Poland. '26
online maps' (high res., enlargeable images - Polish Museum in
Rapperswil, Switzerland)
Poland -
Prussia. 'Die Endersch-Karte des Ermlands von 1755' (slow-loading but
high res. images of the 12-sheet wall-map by Johannes Friedrich
Endersch 'Tabula Geographica Episcopatum Warmiensem In Prussia
Exhibiens', with a gazetteer of hundreds of place-names linked to the map
via a superimposed alpha-numeric grid - Thomas Salein) [see also 'Landkarte von Ostpreußen, 1917'] {December, 2001}
+ Portugal. 'A
nova Lusitânia: a cartografia do Brasil nas colecções da Biblioteca
Nacional' (an online exhibition under five headings, each leading to
a list of maps, which in turn are linked to a catalogue description and a
high res image of each; there appears to be no overall listing of
what seems to be a collection of 324 items - Biblioteca Nacional)
{December, 2002}
Russia (a
large collection of medium res. images, some with section details
- James Ford Bell Library)
Russia
(22 enlargeable, high res. maps - in Russian) {December,
2002}
Russia.
'Die Endersch-Karte des Ermlands von 1755' (slow-loading but
high res. images of the 12-sheet wall-map by Johannes Friedrich
Endersch 'Tabula Geographica Episcopatum Warmiensem In Prussia
Exhibiens', with a gazetteer of hundreds of place-names linked to the map
via a superimposed alpha-numeric grid - Thomas Salein) [see also 'Landkarte von Ostpreußen, 1917'] {December, 2001}
Russia.
Siberia Mapping (nine low res. maps of Russia, 1570-1786, some
concentrating on the east - L. Frolova, National Library of Russia, 1999)
[also in Russian]
{February, 2002}
Scandinavia (27
medium res., slow-loading maps of Estonia ['Livonia'], the Baltic
States, Russia and Scandinavia, 16th-18th centuries, National Library of
Estonia) {November, 2002}
Scandinavia. Andreas
Bureus' map of 1626 (with Swedish commentary by Göran Bäärnhielm -
evidently enlargeable with FlashPix, for which instructions are provided (in
Swedish - click 'FlashPix') - 'plug-in required')
Spain.
'Cartografía de España en la Biblioteca Nacional: siglos XVI a XIX'
(apparently enlargeable images [not functioning when visited] attached to
a catalogue [apparently of 1,629 entries] listing all the maps and
charts, both printed and manuscript, covering Spain as a whole or in
part, as well as plans and city views) {November, 2002}
Sweden. Cadastral
Maps from land reforms during the 18th and 19th centuries (Select
'Historical Maps Prototype System' for 4,671 high res.,
enlargeable MrSID images, 'from different parts of the country,
trying to give a broad impression of the different types of material in
the archives', including some earlier examples - part of the Digital
Historical Maps project. Images can be selected from an index or via a
clickable map. There are versions of the site in Danish, English, German
and Swedish) {October, 2001}
Sweden.
Göta Kanal (240 high res. maps of the projected and completed
canal (1754, 1774-84, 1808, including some by Thomas Telford, with modern
air photos for comparison - Reinhold Castensson) {January,
2002}
Sweden. Historical
maps (about 75 images of 19th and 20th century maps - either very
slow to load or inaccessible - Kulturgeografiska institutionen,
Stockholm University) {July, 2002}
Sweden.
Lantmäteriverket. 'Historical Maps' (over 100,000 high res.
maps: (a) Häradskartan [MS, 1:20,000, c. 1870, the earliest large-scale
map of Sweden]; (b) Generalstabskartan [1:100,000 or 1:200,000, c.1900];
(c) historical town plans. At high res., small portions can be viewed
for free; there is a charge for downloading an entire map. NB the
'historical maps' pages are not available via Netscape and need to be
accessed via Explorer, with Java and cookies enabled. At this stage,
most of the commentary on the various map series, and the instructions,
are available in Swedish only. The intention is to have 300,000 maps
available by the end of 2002, with the entire 2.3 million available by
2006 (although there will be restricted access, for confidentiality
reasons, to some of the 20th century maps). The Swedish maps from the Digital Historical Maps project are also
accessible via 'Historical Maps' - the Lantmäteriverket [Swedish national
survey agency, established 1628]) {February, 2002}.
Update: the
English pages are now functioning and there are now over 100,000 maps,
including "a whole range of new map series from the Swedish Land Survey
Board's map archives - where you now can find road maps, provincial and
county maps, overview maps, parish maps and much more"; specifically:
Geographical Survey Office's map archives, 'Land Use and Topographic maps
(1859-1974)'; Land Survey Board's map archives, 'Town and cadastral maps
(1630-1974)'; Regional map archives, 'Cadastral documents and maps
(1690-)' {August, 2002}
Sweden -
Djurgården (historical maps of the former royal hunting preserve
outside Stockholm, viewable via DjVu Browser plug-in) {August,
2002}
Switzerland.
Ryhiner Collection (about 900 maps, plans and views [those relating
to Switzerland] in medium res. - click first on 'guest access' and then
search via title, place-name & subject, author, or volumes; or use the
clickable map - University of Berne) {August, 2002}
Switzerland. 'Der
Weltensammler' (very high res., enlargeable, but slow-loading
images on various aspects of (mainly) Swiss cartography - with extensive
text - Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern)
Switzerland -
Basle (114 enlargeable, low to medium res. maps - Digital Map Archive
of the State Archives of Basel-Landschaft) {May, 2002}
Switzerland
- Zürich. (nine low res. maps of the canton of Zürich, 1742-1870,
illustrating a book-length study,
in German, of the cartography of the region, by Daniel Speich)
{February, 2002}