Maps: Maps-Historical

1500s to 1800s. "...Include the landmass encompased by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The area includes island territories in both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean."

United States maps from the colonial era, the Louisiana Purchase, through the Civil War to World War II.

From the Boston Public Library: "a curated digital collection of maps and additional online resources related to the American Revolutionary War era, broadly defined as 1750-1800."

Review how United States county boundaries have changed over time. Includes Louisiana parishes.

Fully scanned, six volume atlas with statistical tables for the entire world from Princeton University. Published in 1827.

The Cartography Collection contains regional and historical maps and atlases from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Emphasis of the collection is on the area of the globe occupied by Alabama, with historic maps that retrace the development of the region over centuries and illustrate the evolution of mapmaking.

"ChronoAtlas is a completely free and fully interactive historical atlas of the world. The site allows you to browse the entire globe at any point in history and see boundaries changing over time and cities and other features appearing on the map at the time they were founded. " Takes time to load.

Maps from the 1940s through the 2010s.

From the Library of Congress: "This category includes maps that depict individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. These maps record the evolution of cities illustrating the development and nature of economic activities, educational and religious facilities, parks, street patterns and widths, and transportation systems."

"The historical map collection has over 27,000 maps and images online. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented."

Maps with explanations.

This is the search page for the collection of over 500,000 maps.

From the University of South Florida. Browse or search.

Library of Congress collection includes the first and second maps of America by an American and printed in America. Six maps in all.

From the Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Collection.

Covers 1801 to 2001.

Locates maps of your area and searches by location or browse. There are maps back to 1794 for New Orleans. Created by a collaboration between The Great Britain Historical GIS Project based at The University of Portsmouth, UK and Klokan Technologies GmbH, Switzerland.

Historical and some current maps of the state of Pennsylvania.

World and southern U.S. maps.

Available under a Creative Commons license Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

Mostly southeastern United States.

Maps from the 1600s onward.

Maps from a researcher in spatial analysis in social science covering China, Japan and France.

Browse by area. "Viewing these images in your browser requires the installation of the LizardTech ExpressView Plugin for Netscape®, Internet Explorer and Safari Web browsers. Unfortunately, there is currently no plugin for support in Firefox."