• General

• Mexico

• Central America

• West Indies

• South America

General:

• Cities. 'Paisajes Urbanos de América y Filipinas' (illustrated with sample, low res. urban plans of North, Central and South America, the Antilles and the Philippines from the Archivo General de Indias de Sevilla, Sección de Mapas y Planos) {November, 2005}
• 'Early maps from the Benson Latin American Collection depicting Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean' (33 high res. maps - University of Texas at Austin) {March, 2004}
• 'Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Latin American Cities' (a selection, zoomable to high res. - University of Chicago Library) {March, 2008}
• Latin America (an [apparently growing] selection of high res. images of maps and town views, arranged chronologically - University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries, Map & Imagery Library) {December, 2003}
• 'The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps: A Selective Guide to Manuscript Maps to 1900 in the Collections of the Library of Congress' by John R. Hébert and Anthony P. Mullan (descriptions of 1011 maps); see also Selections from 'The Luso-Hispanic World in Maps' (MrSID maps, with descriptions)
  
• New World Maps & Site Plans (a few, medium res. images, both originals and reconstructions - Athena Publications Inc.) {April, 2001}
• South America and West Indies (medium res. images from the Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, Brussels)

• Aztec. 'Imaging the World: A Selection of Maps from Early America' (four medium res. Aztec maps (or details) and John Smith's map of Virginia - Washington University Libraries) {December, 2002}
• Mexico. 'Color image map : [ports of entry, United States-Mexican border] / produced by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Customs Service' (6 sheets of the 300+ series, 1979-, with the remainder to follow, high res. JPEG2000 images - Library of Congress) {September, 2007}
• Mexico. A Handbook of Mexico (1919) (high res. maps and plans from the work published by the British Naval Intelligence Division - Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection) {February, 2005}
• Mexico. 'Mapa de México 1550' (a digital facsimile, zoomable (via small details) to high res. , of a detailed 2-sheet MS map of Mexico City, attributed to Alonso de Santa Cruz, held by Uppsala University Library, Sweden; there is a search feature and you can add your own annotation) {June, 2006}
• New Spain. The Relaciones Geográficas Collection (12 enlargeable, medium res. maps, c.1577 - University of Texas at Austin)
• Also check the General section

• Panama. 'Maps' (a selection of medium res. maps covering the route of the Panama Railroad) {July, 2005}
• Also check the General section

• Caribbean ('uncheck all areas' and select the relevant heading for 358 high res. images that can be greatly enlarged (although the maximum option is slow) - 'Visual Collections. World Map Collection', State University System of Florida, PALMM Project) ['World Map Collections' appears to be an earlier version of the same site; as also here] {April, 2006}
• Caribbean. 'Online Guide to Early Map Images of the Caribbean' (a detailed and very thorough analysis, down to single image level, of sites offering such images of the West Indies as a whole and of the separate islands - Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM), Library for Caribbean Research) {December, 2003}
• ’Caribbean Views’ (including 18th-19th century maps; select ‘large image’ for medium res. images - British Library, ‘Collect Britain’) {September, 2004}
• 'Caribmap: a cartographic history of the West Indies' (slow-loading, high res. maps and enlarged details of the separate islands - Blair Hedges) {November, 2001}
• + 'Visions of the Caribbean' (illustrated with medium res. images, including maps - Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami) {January, 2006}
• West Indies. ’North American Atlases’ (a chronological list of atlases of America, North America, the United States, separate US states or parts of them, and the West Indies, whose contents can be found, in high res., on the David Rumsey Map Collection site [for further details about this site see Large general sites]) {May, 2004}

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• Cuba. 'The World of 1898: the Spanish-American War' (clicking on 'Maps' leads to selections for Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and high res. MrSID images from the Library of Congress 'American Memory Collection') {January, 2004}
• Cuba (7 low res. maps and details showing Cuba - Biblioteca Nacional "José Martí", Cuba) {November, 2001}
• Dutch Antilles (maps, zoomable to very high res. (after selecting a detail), covering the former Dutch colonies (broadly, the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch Antilles and Surinam), 1850-1950, accessible via the special map search form, where you can specify a particular region - Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam [Het Koninklijk instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)]) {January, 2006; amended March 2007}
• Jamaican Parish Reference (26 maps (1572-1967), much enlarged, in high res. - related to genealogical research on the Prestwidge family) {December, 2003}
• Jamaica. ‘Port Royal Maps’ (seven maps and details (pre-1692, originals and reconstructions) in medium res. - Donny L. Hamilton) {December, 2004}
• Martinique. 'La Martinique à la carte...' (medium res. images of selected maps, with details for the island and its surrounding area (sometimes in high res.), all set into an historical and cartographical commentary, including notes on the cartographers involved - Didier Lampin [site due to be completed in June 2003]) {February, 2003}
• Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Selected Cartographic Items (Library of Congress - 17 high res. MrSID images, with the ability to zoom, enlarge and select details)
• Puerto Rico. 'The World of 1898: the Spanish-American War' (clicking on 'Maps' leads to selections for Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which in turn lead to map descriptions and high res. MrSID images from the Library of Congress 'American Memory Collection') {January, 2004}
• St. Croix. 'Historical Geography of St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies)' ('a collaborative Internet project initiated in 1997', including "An illustrated essay on the 18th-century mapping of St. Croix" - Christopher Tabor and Daniel Hopkins) {September, 2003}
• Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 'Santiago 1863-1988' (includes four high res. plans, 1863-1988 - Periferia: Internet Resources for Architecture and Urban Design in the Caribbean; Architectural Resources Network) {May, 2005}
• Also check the General section

• South America (a chronological list of 19th century atlases, whose contents can be found, in high res., on the David Rumsey Map Collection site [for further details about this site see Large general sites]) {May, 2004}
• South America ('uncheck all areas' and select the relevant heading for 32 high res. images that can be greatly enlarged (although the maximum option is slow) - 'Visual Collections. World Map Collection', State University System of Florida, PALMM Project) ['World Map Collections' appears to be an earlier version of the same site; as also here] {April, 2006}
• South America. '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}
• South America. 'Cosmografías americanas. La imagen de América en la cartografía europea de los siglos XVI y XVII' (64 maps of America, North America, South America, and various regions of America; to bring up a slow-loading, high res. pdf image, click 'Haga clic aquí con el botón derecho' [clicking on the thumbnail brings up a medium res. version] - Memoria Chilena) {January, 2006}
• South America. 'Mapas coloniales de la cartografía oficial indiana de la corona española que demuestran que los territorios patagónicos orientales eran chilenos' (a polemical site, containing low to medium res. scans of maps of Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, with commentary) {August, 2005}
• South America. 'Projeto mapas históricos' (a small selection of maps in medium or high res. - BrazilGenWeb, 2001) {July, 2005}

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• Brazil. 'Biblioteca Virtual da Cartografia Histórica do século XVI ao XVIII' (select 'Galeria' for 56 pages of images [at 12 to a page = 672, but the Apresentação mentions 1,517 map images; some images represent a group; enlargeable to very high res.]; see also the Image database, and 'A Representação Cartográfica no Brasil Colonial na Coleção da Biblioteca Nacional' (a footnoted essay, by Maria Dulce de Faria, revised by Isa Adonias, about the early maps of Brazil in the National Library, with linking images) - Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) {February, 2006}
• Brazil. 'Cartas, Plantas, Esboços e Projectos: Cartografia Militar Portuguesa dos Séc. XVIII a XX' (you can search in English, Portuguese or Spanish [select from 'língua' and then click on 'Base bibliográfica geral'] for about 12,000 full descriptions [mostly of cartographic items in Portuguese and of Portugal but with others relating to Spain (particularly the frontier areas), Brazil, the African possessions, etc.] nearly all of which have at least one low to medium res. image [if there is an image, the final line in the entry will read: 'clique para visualizar o documento'; there are about 13,500 in total]; there is no geographical index but you can enter a place-name (in its Portuguese form) under 'Word/Palavra' ['Brasil' found 92 items, 'Brazil' 18] - Projecto SIDCARTA, Direcção dos Serviços de Engenharia) {April, 2006}
• Brazil. 'Catálogo de Mapas' (the map catalogue of the Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, searchable via nine indexes; selecting 'Acervo Digital' brings up 13 items - clicking on the icon of an open book with an 'e' on the front brings up medium res. images [sometimes several for one entry]) {February, 2006}
• + Brazil. 'Imagens de Vilas e Cidades do Brasil Colonial' (text by Nestor Goulart Reis [general introduction, 'Texto de Apresentação', and arranged by region, 'Imagens dos Estados'] to a 2001 exhibition, illustrated with medium res. images - Art Museum of the Federal University of Ceará) {February, 2006}
• Brazil. ‘Mapas de Santos’ (35 plans and map details [in varying resolutions]; the MSS are shown without acknowledgement of source; a similar page includes a small selection for Cubatão, São Paulo, etc. - Carlos Pimentel Mendes) {December,2004}
• + 'Brazil: A Quincentenary Exhibit' (a few low res. maps (without index) - University of South Carolina, 2000) {May, 2002}
• Brazil. 'United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures' (in English and Portuguese; select Maps for 48 high res. MrSID images of Brazil and surrounding countries from the Library of Congress and four from the National Library of Brazil [though a search for 'map' found 59 items]) {May, 2005}
• Brazil - Rio de Janeiro. 'Old and Historic Maps of Rio de Janeiro' (a good range of maps from 1567, in medium or high res., some apparently from the Library of Congress; see also the links at the end to the same author's historical notes and 'an animated image showing 440 years of growth of Rio de Janeiro in 1 minute, made from 22 simple maps' - John Deal) {February, 2008}
• Chile. 'Cosmografías americanas. La imagen de América en la cartografía europea de los siglos XVI y XVII' (64 maps of America, North America, South America, and various regions of America; to bring up a slow-loading, high res. pdf image, click 'Haga clic aquí con el botón derecho' [clicking on the thumbnail brings up a medium res. version] - Memoria Chilena) {January, 2006}
• Galápagos Islands: history and cartography (medium res. images - John Woram)
• Galápagos Islands. 'The year of the tortoise: dating the maps of the Galápagos Islands' (an article, illustrated by low res. maps, by John Woram) {May, 2001}
• Paraguay. 'Indice de mapas antíguos' (nine medium or high res. maps - Biblioteca Virtual de Paraguay) {September, 2005}
• Surinam (maps, zoomable to very high res. (after selecting a detail), covering the former Dutch colonies (broadly, the Dutch East Indies, the Dutch Antilles and Surinam), 1850-1950, searchable via the library catalogue [there is no geographical index]; alternatively, use the viewer to search on geographical location [click on the magnifying glass] - Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam [Het Koninklijk instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)]) {January, 2006}
• 'Suriname 1599-1975' to find a known place, select 'Blader door de indexen' and then 'Plaats'; although there is a 'Kaarten' link, it seems that to find a browsing list of maps you need to select instead 'Zoek in de collectie', entering kaart into the first box and choosing 'Type origineel' in the second, which finds 147 maps, enlargeable to medium res. - Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam) {February, 2006}
• 'Surinam in kaart gebracht' (apparently four medium res. maps; alternatively search the main site for 'surinam kaart' - Universiteitsbibliotheek van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Het Geheugen van Nederland) {November, 2005}
• Surinam. 'Oude Kaarten' (14 low to medium res. maps, 1640-1877) {October, 2003}
• Venezuela. 'Atlas físico y político de la República de Venezuela' (by Agustín Codazzi, [1840?]; very slow-loading, apparently enlargeable images - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) {November, 2002}
• Also check the General section

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