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[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript ch...

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic... More

Rossīi︠a︡--XVIĭ i XVIIĭ vi︠e︡k : sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ karta dli︠a︡ klassnago ...

Wall map of history of territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (European portion) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Baltic States, Poland-Lithuania, and Moldavia. Title f... More

Cartografie in Nederland, kaart van Rusland

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Beleg en inname van Deventer, 1591 - Public domain map

Public domain image of vintage Dutch map, plan of a city siege, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Kaart van Suriname - Dutch East Indies

Public domain document scan of Dutch map, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Euro...

La Nuoua Francia - Public domain vintage map

This map, among the earliest separate maps of northeastern North America, was primarily based on the voyages that were taken by Giovanni da Verrazano for the French in 1524. His discoveries confirmed the contin... More

Map of Alexandria, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Georg Braun (German, 1541–1622)

Theodor de Bry - [The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia]

Map showing the coast of Virginia with many islands just off the mainland, two Native territories, Secotan and Weapemeoc, and the Native community of Roanoak on an island at the mouth of a river. Illus. in: Wun... More

The Codex Quetzalecatzin Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon" family from 1480-1593. Map covers southern Puebla from the church of Todos Santos, Ecatepec (now suburb to the north east of modern-da... More

[Detail from "Shell road map: Pennsylvania" showing woman driving a ca...

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Vault

Johann August Corvinus - Ontzet van Turijn, 1706

Ontzet van de stad Turijn, door de Fransen belegerd, door de Geallieerden onder Eugenius van Savoye op 7 september 1706. De centrale voorstelling van het beleg in een rijk versierde ornamentele omlijsting met b... More

Gezicht op Dantzig / Gdansk - Hendrik Donnet

Gezicht op de Poolse stad Gdansk of Danzig met verschillende belangrijke gebouwen uitvergroot. Op de voorgrond een tekenaar op een heuvel.

Gades., Abraham Ortelius - Public domain vintage map

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Inspectie van het leger van Maurits in slagorde bij Neuss, 1610

Public domain scan of an 18th-century map, vintage, old, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lowe... More

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smi...

1606 map of Virginia as described by John Smith showing the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, other geographic features, and a vignette of the Native leader, Powhatan, in council. Illus. in: The generall historie ... More

Noua totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula

Ornately decorated and beautifully colored, this world map epitomizes the baroque style favored during the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. The map was prepared in 1630 by Henricus Hondius, who had joined in pa... More

Territorio Perugino, Joan Blaeu 1596-1673 - Vintage map, Norman B. Lev...

Collection of old maps Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 d...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of ... More

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

Les Deserts D'Egypte, De Thabaide D'Arabie, De Sirie, &c. : ou Sont ex...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Nouus planiglobii terrestris per utrumque polum conspectus

Another variation of the double hemisphere projection was one in which each of the spheres depicted the northern and southern hemispheres, rather than the eastern and western. An example of this polar-oriented ... More

Plan of the Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Scale 1:720; 60 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-17... More

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

Johann Baptist Homann - Aegyptus Hodierna, Map of Egypt

Johann Baptist Homann (German, Oberkammlach 1664–1724 Nuremberg) Public domain scan of German 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beleg van Venlo, 1702 - Public domain vintage map

Plattegrond met het beleg van Venlo door de geallieerden, september 1702. Plaat nr. 33 in het prentwerk bestaande in totaal uit 276 genummerde platen van vermaarde sterke steden en vestingen in het kader van de... More

Kaart van de omgeving van Venetië, ca. 1702

Public domain image related to Dutch colonies, East-Indies, Dutch East India Company, Asia, age of discovery, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

The English empire in America, Newfound-land, Canada, Hudsons Bay, &c....

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Plan de la riuiere de Suriname, de la ville de Paramaribo, es de fort ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index of places and inset of fort Zelandia.

Plattegrond van Molkwerum - Public domain vintage map

Bovenaan de titel, links de legenda. Rechts een inzet met de doorgang naar zee, daaronder een kaart van Zuidwest Friesland. Onderaan een cartouche met het wapen van Molkwerum en een gezicht op het dorp.

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... More

The island of St. Christophers, alias St. Kitts

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A map of the British and French settlements in North America

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Planisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on c...

Relief shown by hachures. Projection centered on North Pole. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy removed from its copy of Buache's Cartes et tables de la géographi... More

The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library ... More

Isle de Saint Domingue. - Public domain portrait drawing

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A new and accurate map of part of North-America, comprehending the pro...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Covers the area from Quebec to lower Chesapeake Bay and west along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to Fort Detroit. Shows provinces, towns and cities, forts, some... More

A map of the British dominions in North America, according to the Trea...

Scale ca. 1:10,900,000. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 98 Vault AACR2

A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Depths shown by soundings. Described and dated 1776 in William P. Cumming's The Southeast in early maps. Dated 1773 in Essays honoring Lawrence C. Wroth. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of N... More

Map of the upper part of the Island of Manhattan above Eighty-Sixth St...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Gen. Noel F. Parrish papers in LC Ms. Div. "Lith. by W.C. Rogers & Co. for Joseph Shannon's Manual 1868." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes notes. LC copy t... More

Bowles's map of the seat of war in New England. Comprehending the prov...

Scale ca. 1:800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 811 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A map of the provinces of New-York and New Jersey : with a part of Pen...

Public domain image of the vintage map from NYPL Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division is one of the wo... More

Jan Brandes - Plattegrond van Batavia

Stadsplan van Batavia met Duitse legenda. Naar een oude kaart van voor 1743-45 (afbraak kasteelmuur tussen Diamant en Robijn. Ook de lutherse kerk (voltooid 1749) staat er nog niet op. Brandes heeft deze met pe... More

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale. Conte...

Scale ca. 1:1,800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 651/... More

Carte réduite des côtes et de l'interieur de la presqu' île de la Flor...

Scale ca. 1:1,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin: No. 2.H., N. 1.H et 2.H. Ensemble, Prix trois lives. LC Maps of North America, 1... More

Carte de la Florida, de la Louisiane, et pays voisins : pour servir à ...

Public domain document scan of map of Florida, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A New map of North America : with the West India Islands. : Divided ac...

Map of North America showing Canada, United States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. Also shows the locations of the various Native American tribes. Cartouche at upper right shows a Native American ... More

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capi...

Shows northwestern South America. "Madrid lo. de marzo de 1796." Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in pencil on verso: N. 18. Available also through the L... More

A new chart of the Mediterranean Sea / nautical chart

Depths shown by soundings in selected areas. Statement of dedication: To the Right Honorable Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue, and Knight of the Milita... More

Carte conjecturale de l'Atlantide : d'après le Colonel Bory de St. Vin...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Map of the city of Jerusalem : exhibiting the location of the most imp...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of Nort...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, 90⁰ L. 45⁰ Lat.," from Tooley's Printed maps of America. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. 1, 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathb... More

A map of the State of New York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:950,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Contracted from his large map of the state." Shows township boundaries. Includes index to "Towns" in Kings and Richmond counties. Available also thr... More

Suitsetav ainu mees / An Ainu man smoking

Ainud on rahvas Jaapanis Hokkaido saarel ning Venemaal Sahhalini saarel, kes elasid lihtsalt ning tegelesid põhiliselt kalandusega. Jaapanlaste hoiatustest hoolimata otsustas Krusenstern Hokkaido saare juures m... More

A map of the discoveries of Capt. Lewis & Clark from the Rockey Mounta...

Relief shown pictorially. Meridians: London and Philadelphia. Ink and watercolor, sectioned in 2 and mounted on cloth. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of C... More

Plano Geométrico de la Ciudad y Castillo de Denia donde se manifiesta ...

Manuscrito firmado y rubricado por los autores. A plumilla en tinta negra y sepia y coloreado a la acuarela en verde, azul, gris, amarillo, carmín y siena

Plano del fondeadero de Almeria : situado el Castillo de S. Telmo en l...

Orientado con media lis en cuadrante

Plan of the city and suburbs of New Orleans : from an actual survey ma...

Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward upper right. Includes ill. of buildings, with name and date of construction for each. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Australasia. Historic map, Library of Congress

map from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistic...

This image has been taken from scan 000012 from "Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee; with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. [With ... More

Map of the province of Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Prince Edward...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Carte physique et routière de la France, de la Suisse, et de l'Italie...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Massachusetts. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Very similar stylistically, in portrayal of relief, and in lettering to manuscript map of Maine of same time that was done by A.T. Perkins. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Britt... More

Union District, South Carolina / - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D. S." Pen and ink tracing of a map in Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of S... More

Chart shewing the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean of Don Christ...

Like many of the ancestors of today's Floridians, Christopher Columbus voyaged from his home in Europe across the North Atlantic to the West Indies. Sailing under the Spanish flag, he made four separate voyages... More

Aanvang van het beleg van de Citadel van Antwerpen door het Fransche l...

Plattegrond van de Citadel van Antwerpen bij het begin van het beleg door het Franse leger, december 1832. De belegeringswerken nu gevorderd tot de derde parellel en, bovenaan, de aanduiding van de plaats van h... More

Isaac Weissenbruch - Plattegrond van een bouwwerk

Public domain document scan of Dutch map, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Christopher Columbus from "De Aardbol. Magazijn van hedendaagsche land...

This image has been taken from scan 000020 from volume 10 of "De Aardbol. Magazijn van hedendaagsche land- en volkenkunde ... Met platen en kaarten. [Deel 4-9 by P. H. W.]". The title and subject terms of this ... More

Map from "[The Topography of Athens, with some remarks on its antiquit...

This image has been taken from scan 000896 from "[The Topography of Athens, with some remarks on its antiquities. [With plates.]]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, creat... More

Map of North America. - Public domain vintage map

Elevation and Plan of Execution Rocks Lighthouse, New York

Lighthouse Maps and Plans for Execution Rocks, New York

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Scale ca. 1:41,500. Relief shown by hachures. Appears in William Faden's Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution. 1845. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1564 Available also through the Library of Co... More

map from "[The Story of Africa and its Explorers. [With plates and map...

This image has been taken from scan 000025 from volume 02 of "[The Story of Africa and its Explorers. [With plates and maps.]]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created ... More

Paskaart van de noordkust Hispaniola, met twee inzetkaarten

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Kaart van Japan met bijkaart van Nagasaki

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Plattegrond van Venlo, ca. 1701-1715

Picryl description: Public domain image of Dutch city plan print, fortification map, free to use, no copyright restrictions

[Map of Straits of Magellan, showing Patagonian Indians greeting Dutch...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Aegidius Dickmann - Plattegrond van Danzig

Public domain scan of a vintage map, plan, atlas, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Bonner's pocket map of the state of Georgia

Prime meridian: Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Stained and with small tears along folds. Acquisitions control no. 99-21

Map of Marion County, Ohio / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 652 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth backing, halved to enable folding.

Topographical map of Seneca County, New York /

General-content county map showing towns (townships), town survey sections (numbered), rural buildings, and householders' names. Hand colored to emphasize town boundaries. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown... More

Elevation Drawing and Plan for the Proposed Lighthouse Dwelling at Cat...

Map and Plan Relating to the Lighthouse at Cat Island, Mississippi

Tegucigalpa from "Notes on Central America, particularly the States of...

This image has been taken from scan 000158 from "Notes on Central America, particularly the States of Honduras and San Salvador ... and the proposed Honduras inter-oceanic railway. With original maps and illust... More

Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.

Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts /

Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 316 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Map showing the location of the Charleston & Savannah R.R. May, 1856.

Map of the South Carolina tidewater area between Charleston and Savannah, Ga. "The red line represents the located line; the blue lines represent some of the principal experimental lines." Chartered December 20... More

circle from "Explorations and adventures in Honduras, comprising sketc...

This image has been taken from scan 000578 from "Explorations and adventures in Honduras, comprising sketches of travel in the gold regions of Olancho, and a review of the history ... of Central America. With .... More

Cooke's new map of the state of North Carolina : constructed from actu...

Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes: North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind -- Comparative e... More

Map of Texas showing the Sabine and Galveston Bay Rail Road, or Texas ...

Outline map of Texas and vicinity showing railroads actually built, under construction, and chartered but not under contract. Scale ca. 1:2,002,000. LC Railroad maps, 551 Description derived from published bibl... More

Map of Onondaga County, New York : showing military townships and thei...

Shows real-property tracts and lines only in town (townships) adjacent to Syracuse; other towns are subdivided into numbered military townships. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphasize town (townshi... More

Memphis and vicinity / Historic map, Library of Congress

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S168, 429 Finished pen and ink map drawn on tracing cloth. "For General Sherman, General of the Army." Indicates fortifications at Fort Pickering and Fort Harris, roads and streets,... More

Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota and north western p...

Shows portion of Morrison County to the west of the Mississippi River, this area shown on other editions as part of Todd County, and section lines in Traverse and Big Stone counties. Cover title: Sewall's map o... More

[Fauquier Co., Va. : northwestern part].

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward right. Each sheet pasted together in 6 sections, sectioned in 2, and mounted on cloth. "Map from the Confederate Engineer ... More

[Map of the coast of South Carolina, from Charleston to Savannah].

Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Portion of an unidentified printed map showing roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S126 Available also through the ... More

Bacon's map of Europe - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

Bacon's new sixpenny map of Europe corrected to present date Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Plan of the Battle of Dranesville Va Decr 20th 1861.

Shows Dranesville, Fairfax County, Va., and the area to the north. The locations of the Leesburg Turnpike, Centreville Road and Chain Bridge Road are indicated.

Fort Sumter National Monument - Public domain old map

Title from panel. Bird's-eye view of Fort Sumter in 1861. "*GPO: 2006--320-369/00595. Reprint 2006." Includes descriptive index, text, ill., and map of Fort Sumter walking tour. Text, col. ill., and map of Char... More

Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York prepared under the dire...

Map of New York and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, relief by hachures, county boundaries, cities and towns. Different colors in dictate railroads in operation, in progress of construction, and propo... More