The only
comprehensive listing of early map image sites. The
monthly additions are indicated thus, e.g. {March
2002} at the end of the
entry. Since the symbols { } are not used elsewhere, you can search on
those elements [enter Ctrl+F]; e.g. 2002} will find entries added
at any time in that year)
Please notify any corrections or additions to the editor, Tony
Campbell:
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before using any of the images you find
America (high 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 13 medium res. maps)
'America, 1500-1800' ('a digital
collection ... to go with the book La mesure d'un continent and the exhibition Ils ont cartographié l'Amérique';
several hundred maps, enlargeable (after a pause) to high res. - Bibliothèque et Archives nationale Québec)
{October, 2007}
The
Americas (39 slow-loading, medium res. images, 1550-1870)
{October, 2001}
'The Archive of Early American Images' (follow the access
instructions [memorising the login and password], then search in one of various ways; selecting
Subject: 'Geography, maps, city views and plans' produced 774 hits [at the launch in May
2005]; maximise the new window and then enlarge by stages to very high res.; providing
access to early and important maps from the major research library for early Americana; but a
slow-moving and awkward site - John Carter Brown Library) {May, 2005}
'Historia virtual. Dossier
Documental' (a selection of medium res. maps, mostly of the world or parts of America,
intended as part of an educational programme - Universitat de Barcelona) {July, 2005}
'Itinera per Indias Occidentales' (access to the much enlarged, but
only medium res., images of maps relating to the Americas is via a 'subject' [i.e.
geographical area] option, spread over many screens; or enter 'cartografia' into 'Word
search' (which produced descriptions of 228 items - those with a globe symbol having an
image); site also in Italian - a joint project involving the collections of the
Biblioteca Angelica, Rome and the Biblioteca Nacional "José Martì", Havana) {January,
2004}
Kislak Collection (medium res. images of a world map and eight others relating to America, including the five by Baptista Boazio illustrating Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1589
- Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library of Congress {May, 2005}
+ 'Lewis and Clark: the Maps of Exploration 1507-1814' (a wide-ranging exhibition with
medium res. images of North America and its regions; see 'Novus Orbis: Images of the New World
1507-1669' - Special Collections Alderman Library, University of Virginia)
+ '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}
'Western Hemisphere
Historical Maps' (41 [original not 'historical'] maps of all or part of America, enlargeable to high res. via
LizardTech ExpressView Plugin - Yale University Library) {November, 2007}
The 1562 Map of
America by Diego Gutierrez (John R. Hébert - Library of Congress,
Geography & Map Division - high res. MrSID image, with the ability
to zoom, enlarge and select details) [also available on the alternative site]
+ '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)
