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:
Make sure to consult its copyright statement
before using any of the images you find
+ 'American Treasures' (illustrating and describing 36 items (many of them maps)
- 2009-2010 exhibition at the Osher Map Library & Smith Center for Cartographic Education,
University of Southern Maine) {February, 2010}
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}
'Early Printed Maps' (click 'Browse - Click to Open', then 'Browse
Selected Collection') for 24 maps of America or the South-east enlargeable (when you have
figured out the convoluted and unexpected procedures) to high res. - University of
Southern Florida, Tampa) {March, 2010}
'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}
'Kaarten van de Atlantic World'
(61 maps related to the West Indische Compagnie (Dutch West Indies Company); most, it seems, relating to
North America or the entire continent, enlargeable to very high res. - Netherlands National Archives) {June, 2008; amended August 2009}
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)
+ 'Map Talk: a Conversation with Maps at the JCB' (a broad-ranging exhibition
focussed on America, curated by Susan Danforth, illustrated with 44 maps (enlargeable to
high res.), arranged according to their original purpose and seen as 'subjective
statements' - exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, January-May 2010) {February,
2010}
+ '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}
'Treasures of the Americas' ( five early maps, enlargeable to medium res.
- Special Collections Department, University of Miami Libraries) {March, 2010}
'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]
+ Exploring the Early Americas (illustrated with a few maps - Jay I. Kislak
Collection, Library of Congress exhibition, 2007) {February, 2010}
+ '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)
