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AMERICA:

• + Arlington, University of Texas. 'Foundations of Western European Cartography in Texas Collections: a Special Collections Exhibition' (29 low res. images [clicking on the image produces a single pre-selected detail] - virtual exhibit from Special Collections Division, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2003) {January, 2004}
• Boston Public Library. 'Online Store - Historical Maps Gallery' (including the 'Atlas Maps Gallery': 80 low res. maps of various parts of the world, of which 38 cover Boston and Massachusetts - Boston Public Library) {May, 2004}
• 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}
• DeKalb, Northern Illinois University. 'Maps available online' (a collection of medium res. images covering different parts of the world) {July, 2005}
• Durango, Colorado. Cutter World Map Collection (‘a heterogeneous collection’ of 77 maps (1560-1814), 21 of which are reproduced in high res., including the 1746 D’Anville map of North America (penultimate entry) - Fort Lewis College, Center of Southwest Studies) {October, 2004}
• Fairfax, Virginia. 'C. Harrison Mann, Jr. Digitized Map Collection' (34 images enlargeable to fairly high res. [from 18 atlases and 96 maps (16th-19th century)], mostly North America and Britain - George Mason University Libraries) {September, 2008}
• Florida. 'Rare Map Collection' (23 assorted maps, enlargeable to high res. - University of South Florida Libraries) {February, 2008}
• Hamilton, Ontario. McMaster University Library, Lloyd Reeds Map Collection (a growing collection of over 100 [January 2001] medium res. images from all parts of the world, accessible in four ways: Geographic, Cartographer, Title, Date - see also the Banks Collection and the Hodsoll Collection)
• Ithaca, New York. Cornell University Library. 'Images from the Map Collection' (select 'Browse All' for 155 maps, enlargeable to high res., mostly of the USA and from the 19th century) {February, 2010}
• Milwaukee. ‘American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection’ (‘ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks’; enlargeable via ContentDM to high res. - select ‘Browse’ for thumbnails of 209 scans) {March, 2007}
• Minneapolis, James Ford Bell Library (fast-loading, high res., enlargeable maps)
• NewHaven. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 'Digital Images Online' (there appear to be at least 236 maps (mostly relating to N. America), enlargeable to medium res., but, despite the fact that there is a 'Genre/Form' for 'Maps' it does not seem possible to select all in that category - Yale University) {December, 2008}
• + Portland, Maine, Osher Map Library. "Worldly Treasures: A Fifth Anniversary Celebration" (1999 exhibition - low res.)
• Portland, Oregon, Reed College Library ([original note read as follows but non-working links removed:] 82 slow-loading maps - can be twice enlarged but still medium res.); also Alfred J. Cormack collection (77 maps dating from 1486 to 1864, viewable by date, title, mapmaker and area, in enlargeable, slow-loading, medium res. images) {October, 2003; amended April 2009}
• Richmond. 'Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection' (68 maps, enlargeable to high res.; a general collection with a focus on North America and particularly Virginia - Library of Virginia) {August, 2009}
• San Diego. Maps (a selection of early, historical, and modern maps in medium to high res., from various sources - History Department at the University of San Diego) {June, 2008}
• San Francisco. The Commonwealth Club of California. 'Antiquarian Map Collection' (eight maps and related items; you have to click twice to enlarge to medium res.) {January, 2006}
• + San Jose. 'The Art of Cartography: Exploring Mapmaking in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries' (over 80 medium res. images of a variety of early maps, globes, portraits, etc. - Benjamin Wigton, San Jose State University, 1999) {September, 2001}
• Seattle. 'World and Regional Maps Collection, 16th-19thc' (over 170 maps, enlargeable to very high res. - University of Washington Libraries Special Collections Division’s Rare Map Collection) {October, 2009}
• + Seville. 'Cartografía histórica en la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla' (an online exhibition, arranged under 12 themes, with images zoomable to fairly high res. (if you are patient), with 'Turning the Page' and other complex technology (which may possibly deliver sharp images); a composite page of thumbnails for each 'gallery' can be brought up by clicking on the camera icon; for the accompanying articles click on the 'Estudio pdf' button upper left in each case - Biblioteca de la Universidad de Sevilla) {March, 2010}
• + Washington, D.C., 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}
• Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, Geography and Maps: 'An Illustrated Guide' (click on one of the sections to see the illustrated text, or go straight to the Concordance of Images, giving direct links to about 60 medium res. images of maps from different parts of the world)
• Washington, D.C., Library of Congress. 'Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress', 1793-1919 (including four MrSID maps) {December, 2001}
• Washington State. 'Digital Collections' (searching for 'map' produced 857 hits (not all maps) in medium res. - University of Washington Libraries) {July, 2006}
• Washington State. 'Digital Collections' (selecting 'maps' via the 'Predefined Search' option produced 1,010 images which can be zoomed and panned via Contentdm to medium to high res. - Washington State University) {July, 2006}

• Brisbane, State Library of Queensland ('Early Australian Maps': a few sample, low res. images of maps of the world, Australia and elsewhere)
• Sydney. 'Crux: Rare maps from the collections of the State Library of NSW' (89, medium res., manuscript and printed maps and charts, 16th-18th centuries, focussing on the Southern Hemisphere, including about 20 early world maps} {December, 2002}

• Europe. 'Treasures of the national libraries of Europe' (you can select the page for each of the 43 libraries involved, several of which include cartographic material shown in low to medium res.) {August, 2005}
• Amsterdam, Universiteitsbibliotheek (low res. images of the World, Europe and the Netherlands). [Also here]
• 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)
• Bremen. 'Historische Karten der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen' (a selection of maps from all parts of the world) {July, 2002}
• Budapest. ’Az Egyetemi Könyvtár Földrajzi Gyüjteménye’ (14 maps and city views, in medium res., mostly from Ortelius and Braun & Hogenberg, of the world, northern and central Europe - University Library of Eötvös Loránd University) {May, 2004}
• + Florence. 'La Cartografia europea tra Rinascimento e Illuminismo' (about 40 links to low res. images and exhibition text [December 2001] at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze - Angelo Cattaneo and Andrè Ferrand de Almeida) {December, 2001}
• Helsinki University Library. 'Treasures from Europe's National Libraries. Topic: Geography' (a miscellaneous selection, each with brief description and low res. sample image) {August, 2005}
• Karlsruhe. Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruhe (links to four low res. images [select 'Abbildung 1' etc.])
• Leiden University. 'Goed gezien' (select 'Objectbeschrijvingen' and then 'De aarde' for 17 low res.images - accompanying an exhibition by Dirk de Vries) [for a further selection click on 'Achtergronden'] {April, 2001}
• Lisbon. 'TT Online' (109 medium res. scans of MS charts from the 16th century onwards, covering various parts of the world associated with Portuguese history - Instituto dos Arquivos Nacionais Torre do Tombo, Lisbon) {June, 2008}
• + London. British Library. 'The Earth & the Heavens: The Art of the Mapmaker' (1995 exhibition - six low res. images).
• + London. British Library. 'Lie of the Land: The Secret Life of Maps' (low to medium res. images (with details) of a few of the items included in the exhibition, September 2001-April 2002) {August, 2001}.
• London. British Library. 'Mapping History: an interactive exploration of maps through time' (a teaching kit, featuring a number of unusual maps gathered together for the British Library's 2001 exhibition, 'Lie of the Land: the Secret Life of Maps', comprising explanation, selected medium res. images, and questions for pupils - relevant also for adults){November, 2005}.
• London. British Library - see also the online volume of the Beudeker Atlas, under Continental Europe - 'Netherlands', and the Roy map under British Isles - 'Scotland'. A growing number of BL maps can be seen, in low res. watermarked versions, on the Heritage Image Partnership site
• + Lyons.‘Mille et une Lieues’ (an over-elaborate site, apparently dealing with exploration in the 15th and 16th century, illustrated with a range of low to medium res. maps, without a browsing list - Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon) {October, 2004}
• Modena. ’Immagini da mostre, manoscritti e libri’ (click on Immagini/Images, then scroll down left margin to Carte/Maps, for slow-loading images (enlargeable to high res.) of the following maps: ‘Catalana’ (15th c.), Cantino (1502), Castiglioni (1525), Stati Estense (1580) - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria Modena) {July, 2004}
• + Modena. ’Immagini da mostre, manoscritti e libri’ (click on Immagini/Images; scroll down left margin to Mostre/Exhibitions - ‘2002 Cartografia’, for 26 medium res., slow-loading images of world and regional maps - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria Modena) {July, 2004}
• Oxford. Bodleian Library, Oxford. 'The Map Case' (21 assorted high res. images)
• The Hague (part of 'A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek') (a small selection of cartographic items - medium res.)
• Utrecht. ‘Gedigitaliseerde kaarten’ (click on the map, or select ‘Bladeren’ for a browsing list of 70 maps of The Netherlands, other parts of Europe and elsewhere, viewable with/without MrSID plug-in, enlargeable to high res., as featured in the 1983 exhibition, "Toonneel des Aerdrijcx" - Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht) {March, 2005}
• Utrecht University Library. 'Virtual Showcase: A Choice from the Special Collections of Utrecht University Library / Virtuele Vitrine: Een Keuze Uit de Bijzondere Collecties van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Utrecht' (includes seven medium res. maps) {November, 2005}
• Vienna. '50 Zimelien der Kartensammlung' (50 assorted maps, from 1492 onwards, arranged by century, zoomable to medium to high res. by dragging a horizontal line up the zoom bar, also high res. details; text in German - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna) {November, 2006}

By Title:

• 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}
• Artlex: Visual Arts Dictionary (high res. images of seven sample maps and a globe - Michael Delahunt) {December, 2002}
• + ‘La aventura humana en el Mediterráneo’ (select 'Cartografía' for a small selection of low res. maps and charts [including a few portolan charts] - Archivo de Simancas) {July, 2004; amended February 2008}
• 'Cartes anciennes diverses' (a selection of maps and charts, viewable in high res. via the 'Taille' link [most of the enlargement options beneath the thumbnail do not work]; part of the larger Coin des Cartes Anciennes - reproduced under licence from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica) by Jacques Zan) {November, 2005}
• 'Deutsche Schutzgebiete die ehemaligen Kolonien des Deutschen Reichs' (see Historische Landkarten for a number of high res. German maps for the period 1871-1918, covering the Habsburg Empire and its overseas territories - some of the text also available in English) {July, 2002}
• Digital Maps from the Mapping Mediterranean Lands Project (an assortment of medium res. images - for fuller details see under Projects) {August, 2005}
• Flickr. 'Old Maps. Group Photo Pool' (a small but growing body of images posted, presumably in varying resolution, by members of Flickr's 'Old Map Group'; you can search for an area + "old map") {September, 2006}
• ’Hipkiss’ Scanned Old Maps’ (select ‘Book Titles’, choose from ‘Categories’, or click on ‘List all maps’ for thumbnails for all 145 maps (mid-19th century onwards), enlargeable to high res., mostly comprising Bible maps, Switzerland, London and the 1914 and 1919 issues of the RGS Geographical Journal - Jonathan Hipkiss) {March, 2005}
• 'Historic Maps' (medium res. images of commercial facsimiles of several hundred maps and panoramas from different parts of the world (particularly Germany and neighbouring countries), mostly mid-19th century) {March, 2004}
• ‘Historical-Geographical Encyclopedia of the World (1880-1898): Historical Maps’ (a single alphabetical index leads to high res. images of late 19th century maps of countries (47) and cities (88) [mostly European] - Hanno Kolbe, Hic Leones) {February, 2005}
• Joris van Spilbergen, Oost ende West-Indische spieghel (the complete text, including the voyages of Jacob Le Maire, with fairly high res. images of the maps - Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld) {July, 2005}
• MapHist List illustrations page (maintained by Peter van der Krogt, with over 50 illlustrations sent in by subscribers, sometimes for identification, in varying resolutions)
• + ' Mapping New Worlds: The Cartography of European Exploration and Colonization, 1450-1750' (a series of illustrated notes on the different continents; clicking on the image leads to a medium res. enlargement - online version of an exhibition held in the Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College in 2005) {September, 2007}
• 'Maps and drawings: a collection of historical cartographic images' (28 assorted, low res. images of early maps, several manuscripts from public collections - Kathleen Cohen) {March, 2004}
• 'Moving Here: 200 years of migration to England' (searching for 'map' produced about 75 hits (not all of which were relevant), mostly relating to the Caribbean, Ireland and the Jewish community, enlargeable high res. maps in pdf format - a consortium of 30 UK institutions, funded by the New Opportunities Fund) {August, 2003}
• 'National Geographic Maps: the Classic Collection' (medium res. images of posters for sale of the supplement maps from the National Geographic Magazine (1880s-1990s), covering all regions of the world and the heavens) {December, 2006}
• + 'Netherlandic Treasures' (the 'Maps & Voyages' section of the exhibition includes a number of map thumbnails whose links do not work; but the 11 assorted early maps can be seen in very high res. here - University of Michigan Special Collections Library, 2003) {April, 2006}
• Nuremberg Chronicle (click on 'images' for high res. scans of 'Cities, Provinces, Countries, and Kingdoms' (two uncoloured maps and 35 coloured town views); with associated texts - Morse Library, Beloit College) {October, 2007}
• + 'Places & Spaces: Cartography of the Physical and the Abstract' (an exhibition 'to demonstrate the power of maps' - choosing Overview - All Maps brings up thumbnails of early and current maps, enlargeable to medium res.; there are also 'Compare & Contrast' pairs - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University 2005, and showing at the New York Public Library 2006) {April, 2006}
• Tomasz Niewodniczanski. 'Dantiscum Emporium Totius Europæ Celeberrimum' (a selection of maps [including MSS and rare printed material], in low to medium res., mostly relating to Europe, with an emphasis on Poland - an exhibition from the Niewodniczanski collection, in Gdansk, 2004-2005) {May, 2005}
• + 'Vermessen - Kartographie der Tropen' (follow the link 'Christliche, arabische und chinesische Kartographie' for a sequence of pages illustrated with some low res. images [click 'Zum Abschnitt Entdeckung der Tropen' at the foot of each page] - an exhibition at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 2006 with English title 'Between Cancer and Capricorn: The Cartography of the Tropics') {September, 2006}
• VINGBOONS, Johannes (319 maps, charts and views, mostly of Africa, America and Asia, accessible via thumbnails or an alphabetical index [which can be searched] - Atlas of Mutual Heritage) {September, 2008}
• VINGBOONS. 'Kaarten Johannes Vingboons, ca. 1665' (103 images, enlargeable to very high res. - Netherlands National Archives) {August, 2009}
• '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}
• ‘The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection’ (featuring over 2500 of the prints of Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677), with associated texts; the Geography & Maps section contains 17 ‘maps’ and 351 ‘plans and views’ by Hollar, of various parts of the world; clicking on the right-hand icon takes you into zoomify and very high res. - Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto) {April, 2007}
• Wikimedia Commons (select "By type": 'maps' (those over 70 years old are included in the 'Wikimedia Atlas' (which click on), leading to a random, but categorised collection of images supplied by users, presumably at varying resolution; or search for 'old maps') {October, 2007; updated January 2008}

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