Maps, Atlases & Spatial Imagery

California was depicted as an Island on maps in the 17th and 18th centuries. It was not until Father Eusebio Kino’s map entitled “A Passage by Land to California,” informed by his travels between 1698 and 1701, that this cartographic blunder was exposed

Telling a Story of California Through Highway and Planning Maps

More than 6,500 maps from over 350 historical atlases spanning 1579 through 1964. Maps have a limited free view.

A digital collection of historical color fire insurance maps, real estate atlases, plat books, and similar land use maps for North America. The maps show building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information. Maps include publications by Sanborn, Perris, Hexamer, Whipple, Baist, Bromley, Hopkins and others. Coverage is only for California, and dates of coverage is from the 1880's-1960's.

A range of maps covering the state of California and specific cities available from the University of Alabama.

83 manuscript maps and related material detailing the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Coast and back, 1804-1806. Many were annotated during the expedition

Maps of the Pimería a province or region--never precisely defined--of Spanish colonial Mexico encompassing what is now southern Arizona and northern Sonora, the name being derived from the Pima Indians who live in the region

The digital collection contains over 20,000 maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of American cities, states, and national parks. The collection is under continuous development.

Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States was first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Covering a wide range of subjects from presidential elections to agriculture the historical atlas is equipped with a table of contents for easy navigation and interactive maps.

The Automobile Club of Southern California Collection provides documentation on the region's transportation history, a selection of 99 historic strip maps, illustrating the development of major Southern California routes

Over 15,000 high-resolution digital 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.

Strengths of this online digital collection from the Library of Congress include the Sanborn Map Collection and other fire insurance maps, county land ownership maps, real estate atlases, panoramic maps, and other building-level maps particularly of the United States, as well as military maps and cartographic material documenting European global exploration and settlement of North America.

This collection is a publication of the Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography. This online archive and companion to the study, interpretation, and educational use of American maps of movement features more than five hundred maps dating from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century.

Office of Coast Survey covers the land and waters of the United States including territories and possessions free to download

The map collection is global in scope, dating from the 15th century to the present, with a particular strength in maps and atlases from the New England region, American Revolutionary War period, nautical charts, and world urban centers.

OldMapsOnline is a free, open-access search portal that allows users to explore and discover over 500,000 historical maps from libraries and archives around the world.

OpenHistoricalMap is a project designed to store and display map data throughout the history of the world.

Smith Center for Cartographic education comprising of sheet maps, atlases, globes and surveying instruments

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (PCLMC), comprising more than 350,000 items representing all areas of the world. PCLMC has digitized 70,000 maps from the print collection.

A digital repository of USGS topographic maps printed between 1884 and 2006 containing more than 178,000 maps (TopoView)

Military history atlases with over a thousand maps encompassing wars of the United States and abroad

World Historical Gazetteer indexes place data drawn from historical sources, contributed by research projects and individuals studying the past from many disciplinary perspectives.