maps, map

Clement de Jonghe - Map of Venice, Anonymous, 16th century

Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century Public domain photograph of 17th-18th century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cornelis Anthonisz - Plattegrond van Amsterdam, 1544 (derde deel)

Derde deel van een plattegrond van Amsterdam in vogelvluchtperspectief, bestaande uit elf delen (twaalfde deel ontbreekt).

Cornelis Anthonisz - Plattegrond van Amsterdam, 1544 (tiende deel)

Tiende deel van een plattegrond van Amsterdam in vogelvluchtperspectief, bestaande uit elf delen (twaalfde deel ontbreekt).

[Mapa del Golfo y costa de la Nueva España : desde el Río de Panuco ha...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coast from the vicinity of the Cape Fear River in North Carolina of the United States, location of Indian settlements, and lakes and rivers in the region to the Pánuco River ... More

Strijd om de Kauwensteinse dijk, 1585

Public domain image of armed forces, cavalry, infantry, 18th-19th century war, military conflict, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Twee apen kaarten - Public domain vintage map

Public domain photograph of artwork in the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Beleg van Breda, 1624-1625 - Public domain old map

Het beleg van Breda door het Spaanse leger onder Spinola, 27 augustus 1624 tot 5 juni 1625. Plattegrond van de stad met de omcirkeling door de belegerende troepen. Linksboven de legenda 1-10 in het Nederlands.

[A portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent continents].

Also shows the southeast Pacific Ocean, the southwest Indian Ocean, as well as the continents of South America, Africa, Europe, and portions of North America and Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied b... More

Insvlæ Americanæ in Oceano Septentrionali cum terris adjacentibus

Sheet removed from German ed. of W.J. Blaeu's atlas: Atlas novus, Amsterdam, 1634. Map redesigned from a portion of Blaeu's larger map of North America printed ca. 1630. Has vertical fold line at center of shee... More

Willem Isaacsz van Swanenburg - Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Le...

Bibliotheek van de Universiteit van Leiden. Interieur met de kasten met de boeken aan kettingen. Op de voorgrond en tussen de kasten verschillende bezoekers. Links een tafel met globes. Rechts een kast gemerkt:... More

[Map of California shown as an island].

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Plattegrond van Woerden, letterpress print

Plattegrond in vogelvluchtperspectief. Rechtsboven het wapen van Woerden. Rechtsonder een cartouche met de titel, een legenda 1-6 en een schaalstok: 720 pedes geometrici. Op verso Latijnse tekst.

Plattegrond van Deventer, letterpress print

Plattegrond in vogelvluchtperspectief. Linksboven het wapen van Overijssel. In het midden langs de linker- en rechterrand een legenda. Rechtsboven het wapen van Deventer, rechtsonder cartouche met opdracht. Op ... More

Plattegrond van Bolsward, letterpress print

Plattegrond in vogelvluchtperspectief. Linksboven het wapen van Friesland. Onderaan de kaart cartouche met opdracht. Rechtsboven het wapen van Bolsward. Op verso Latijnse tekst.

La Floride / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Shows the coastline from Secotan in Virginia to Planuco in Mexico; the interior is shown to 40 degrees of latitude north and includes lakes and rivers in the region. Prime meridian: [F... More

Plattegrond van Zwolle - Public domain vintage map

Plattegrond in vogelvluchtperspectief. Linksboven het wapen van Overijssel. Linksonder legenda, daaromheen putti, vee en een vrouwfiguur met een korenschoof (mogelijk Ceres). Rechtsboven het wapen van Zwolle.

Terra sancta sive promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Nicolaes Visscher's Atlas contractus orbis terrarum. Exhibition: Jordanian Display, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 25-27, 2005. Includes inset showing the twelve... More

Plattegrond van de begane grond van het Trippenhuis te Amsterdam

Public domain scan of a plan, map, architecture drawing, or diagram, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Nowel Amsterdam en Lameriqve : 1672 /

Bird's-eye view of Lisbon, Portugal (not New Amsterdam) showing individual buildings and place-names in French. Map based on: Braun, George, 1540 or 41-1622. Civitates orbis terrarum, [1612-1618] Vol. 5, Olissi... More

Mediterranean Sea divided into its Principall parts or seas.

Based on La Mer Mediterraneʹe divisee enses Principales Parties, ou Mers by Nicolas Sanson. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

Totius Africæ accuratissima tabula /

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

Nova et exacta delineatio Americae partis avstralis. qve est : Brasil...

Title appears on upper sheet of the map; no indication of title or imprint on lower sheet. The map was engraved for the second edition of the fourth part of Hulsius' collection of voyages, which consists of 26 ... More

Plattegrond van Antwerpen, 1711 - Public domain old map

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

A new map of Italy distinguishing all the sovereignties in it, whether...

This map could easily have been titled "A Disaster-lovers Guide to Italy," filled as it is with pictures and vivid descriptions of infestations, eruptions, and earthquakes. Mt. Aetna is described as a mountain ... More

Jan Matthysz - Plattegrond van buitenplaats Vredenburg in de Beemster

Plattegrond van de buitenplaats Vredenburg in de Beemster. Deze buitenplaats was in 1647 voltooid en werd in opdracht van koopman Frederik Alewijn ontworpen door architect Pieter Jansz. Post. Langs de bovenkant... More

Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des decouvertes qui y ont ...

Scale ca. 1:9,000,000. Hand colored. Has watermarks. Relief shown pictorially. Imprint date from R. V. Tooley's French mapping of the Americas, item 38. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi ...

2nd State. [Blueprint is 3rd State] Colonial America. See English translation in Senex's New General Atlas, 1721, dedicated to Wm. Law. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.... More

A scheme of the Solar system with the orbits of the planets and comets...

Includes text. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy stamped in blue ink in lower left margin: 82A. LC copy imperfect: Darkened, use-worn, losses along edges, mounte... More

Africa : corrected from the observations of the Royal Society at Londo...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows boundaries, rivers, forests and principal settlements, with tents symbolising areas inhabited by nomads, and notes. London meridian. "Drawn & Engrav'd by I. Senex." Available als... More

Plattegrond van Amsterdam, 1482-1601

Plattegrond van Amsterdam zoals het er tussen 1482 en 1601 uit zou hebben gezien, in vogelvluchtperspectief. Linksboven een gezicht op het Oude Stadhuis op de Dam, daaronder het wapen van Holland. Boven in het ... More

An Accurate map of North America from the latest discoveries.

Scale ca. 1:50,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Shows "Degrees west from London." Also shows colonies, a few cities and towns, and Indian tribal territory. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Ind... More

An accurate map of the West Indies. Exhibiting not only all the island...

Scale ca. 1:14,000,000. Relief shown pictorially. Also shows southern United States, Central America, and northern South America. "Where may be had just publish'd for the use of the curious as well as students,... More

A new & accurate map of the island of Cuba. A new & accurate map of th...

Scale ca. 1:2,700,000. Islands outlined in color; hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 65." From the author's A complete atlas or distinct view of the known world. 1752. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1... More

Plano del puerto del Guárico, cuyo conocimto. y entrada es del modo si...

Scale ca. 1:35,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: Strasburg fleur-de-lis. Oriented with north to the bottom. Depths shown by soundings. Mounted on cloth backing LC Luso-Hispanic World, 464 ... More

L'Amérique septentrionale, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:12,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Shows the Mississippi River to be the eastern boundary of Louisiana. From the author's Atlas nouveau, [1761?], v. 9, no. 34. Lowery 433 LC Maps of... More

Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les isles de Cuba, Espagnole, Iamaïque...

Scale ca. 1:4,000,000. Title in margin: Teâtre de la guerre en Amérique telle qu'elle est à present possedée par les Espagnols, Anglois, François, et Hollandois, &c: Nouvellement mis au jour, par Cóvens et Mort... More

Cantonment of His Majesty's forces in N. America according to the disp...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Includes penciled note and listing of the composition of "Detachments." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 118 Available also through the Library... More

Map of the Kingdom of Poland : and the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania /

Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. East from Ferro." "Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, and Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

An exact chart of the river St. Lawrence, from Fort Frontenac to the i...

Scale ca. 1:695,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. Includes descriptive text. Insets: The Seven Islands.--A continuation of the river from Quebec to Lake Ontario.--St. Nich... More

A plan of Pensacola and its environs in its present state, from an act...

Scale ca. 1:4,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Has watermarks. Relief shown by hachures. Cadastral map. Indexed. Imperfect; part of upper right corner torn out. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1661 Available ... More

Map of the island of Nantucket. - Public domain old map

A New map of North America with the West India Islands : divided accor...

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

Plano de Puerto Cavello situado en la costa de Caracs. en lattd. de 10...

Shows coast of Venezuela in the region of Puerto Cabello. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Pen-and-ink and brown ink. Mounted on cloth backing. LC... More

Plan of the island of Bequia laid down by actual survey under the dire...

Relief shown by contours. "To George Etherington Esqr. Lieutenant Colonel, in the 60th. or Royal American Regiment of Foot; This Plan of the Bequia is most respectfully Inscribed By His greatly Obliged, and mos... More

A new map of Ireland : civil and ecclesiastical /

Relief shown by hachures. Indexed. "S.I. Neele sculp." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Label in lower right margin: IV.15.

Plan of the city of Washington. - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also covers Georgetown. "Published by J. Stockdale Piccadilly 16th Sep'r 1798." From the author's Travels through the states of North America ..., 1799. Soil... More

[Map of an area along the eastern shore of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisia...

Some unclaimed lots shown in upper left corner. Title from John R. Hébert's list of maps. Pen-and-ink and pencil; unfinished. Has watermarks. From the papers of Vicente Sebastián Pintado. Described in: Vicente ... More

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika nach Ebelings Beschreibung, Ar...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the area from Canada to northern Florida and from the Missouri River to the Bay of Fundy. Prime meridian: Ferro. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Plan of squares marked A. & B. in Mr. Bulfinch's plan, divided in lots...

Cadastral map of the blocks bounded by 6th St., Pennsylvania Av., 3rd St., and the former Missouri Av. N.W. Brown ink, tan wash, and lead pencil. Watermark: J Whatman 1794. Mounted on cloth backing. Available a... More

Hellespont or channel of the Dardanelles

Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings. When affixed to the cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 3 panels to enable folding. Handwritten signature of Millard Fillmore is not present. LC she... More

Na mokupuni o Hawaii nei / - Public domain old map

Public domain image of a navigation map, harbor, sea, naval battle, 16th-17th century maritime geography, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description:

map from "Six Years in Biscay: comprising a personal narrative of the ...

This image has been taken from scan 000012 from "Six Years in Biscay: comprising a personal narrative of the sieges of Bilbao in June 1835, and Oct. to Dec. 1836. and of the principal events which occurred in t... More

Map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware exhibiting the post offices, po...

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. LC copy sectioned in 8 and mounted on cloth. Printed label on verso: no. 5, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. LC Railroad maps, 70 Available also... More

North Brabant from "De Aardbol. Magazijn van hedendaagsche land- en vo...

This image has been taken from scan 000606 from volume 03 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 of Liberia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Copy 1; Gift; 1968; American Colonization Society; Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text. Inset: Vicinity of Monrovia / surveyed by J... More

Mapa de los Estados Unidos de Méjico : segun lo organizado y definido ...

Covers the United States southwest of Georgia and Iowa, and south of Oregon Territory. Notes within map describe historical events, including those of the Mexican War. Relief shown by hachures. Notes in Spanish... More

Europe. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Sheet removed from atlas publication. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Removed from atlas, rubber-stamped in lower margin "... More

A Plan oe [i.e. of] the British lines on Boston Neck in August 1775.

Scale ca. 1:3,300. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 915 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

La Russie Noire ou Polonaise : qui comprend les provinces de la Russie...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes legend titled "Remarques" and 9 bar scales. LC copy annotated in ink, laminated, and mounted on clot... More

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

Map of the city of Brooklyn, L.I. : shewing the streets as at present ...

Shows wards (numbered), building coverage, and lot lines. Hand colored to emphasize ward boundaries. Originally printed on 2 sheets (western/eastern). LC copy imperfect: Rubber-stamped, shellacked, brittle, dar... More

Map of the gold region of California, taken from a recent survey

Relief shown by hachures. Gift; Philip Lee Phillips Society; November, 2007. LC copy imperfect: Fold-lined. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Michael D. Heaston ... More

Kampement van de Pruisen te Asperen, 1787

Cuba in 1851. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by contours and hachures. Prime meridian: Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Signature to left of title: Millard Fillmore Jany. 19, 1854. Include... More

Map of the Virginia Central Rail Road showing the connection between t...

Map of Virginia and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, county boundaries, place names and "McAdamised" roads. Scale ca. 1:1,250,000. Tables at lower left of map list "Counties bordering on the Central R... More

Plan af Kjöbenhavn = Plan of Copenhagen /

City street map showing principal buildings, administrative wards, circumferential military fortifications (ramparts/bastions/canals, moats), and port facilities. Title on sheet and index in Danish and English.... More

map from "History of the Ottoman Turks: from the beginning of their em...

This image has been taken from scan 000563 from volume 02 of "History of the Ottoman Turks: from the beginning of their empire to the present time. Chiefly founded on Von Hammer. [With plates and maps.]". The t... More

Sectional map of southern Minnesota /

"Entered accordinly to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by S. Holsteen in the Clerks Office of the District Court of Minnesota." LC Land ownership maps, 641 Available also through the Library of Congress Web si... More

Map of the City of Brooklyn as consolidated by an act of the legislatu...

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

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River t...

Scale 1:3,000,000. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows Indian tribal locations, military posts, and routes and dates of expeditions and surveys. Exhibition: Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis... More

Map of Warren Co., New York / - Public domain old map

Cadastral map showing towns (townships), numbered township survey sections, large property tracts (with owners' names), rural buildings, and householders' names. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphas... More

New map of Burlington County : from actual surveys & official records ...

Wall map showing roads, buildings, and landholders' names. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859 by R. Kuhn & J.D. Janney in the Clerk's Office of the District Court o... More

Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three ...

Relief shown by hachures. "Drawn & engraved at Rae Smith's, 71 Nassau St., N.Y. from materials furnished to the 36th Congress, March 1859 by G.K. Warren, Lt. U.S. Top. Eng. for the passage of the Pacific Railro... More

[Planning map for proposed Cape Cod Ship Canal] /

Relief shown by contours. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink in red and blue inks and pencil on tracing paper. Imperfect: Brittle, soiled, creased, small tears along edges. Available also through the Libr... More

Map of Frederick County, Md. : accurately drawn from correct instrumen...

Shows names of residents. Relief shown by hachurres. Includes text, 25 insets, map of Frederick City, list of school districts, and ill. Both copies mounted on cloth and folded in half. "Lithographed by E. Sach... More

Map of the region between Gettysburg, Pa. and Appomattox court house, ...

Relief shown by hachures. Reduced and redrawn version of the index map in the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineer's Military Maps Illustrated the Operations of the Armies of the Potomac & James... ([Washington] War De... More

Birds eye view of the seat of war. Arranged after the latest surveys, ...

Not drawn to scale. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 14.9 "J. Haven, sole agent, 31 Exchange St." printed in the lower right margin. Panoramic map looking South from Baltimore to Cape Henry. Description derived fro... More

[Sketch of a portion of Orange County, north and east of Orange showin...

Relief shown by hachures. Date, title, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil on an irregularly cut and torn piece of brown paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.)... More

Map of Hampton to Howard's Bridge, Virginia.

The area depicted includes the York River to the north, the James River to the south and the Hampton/Five Points area to the east.

Map shewing [sic] vicinity of Winchester, Virginia, Potomac, etc.

Shows portions of southern Maryland and northern Virginia emphasizing Winchester, Va. Sneden notes on the map that Winchester was a city that changed hands 46 times during the war. He lists three major battle... More

Plan of Fort Lyon on Eagle Hill above Alexandria, Va.

Shows a detailed drawing of Union Fort Lyon located on Eagle Hill in Fairfax County, Va. This fort was the headquarters for Major General Samuel Peter Heintzelman, U.S.A. NOTE: Researchers will be served a col... More

[Sketches of roads west of Fredericksburg, Va.].

Shows names of some residents. Relief shown by hachures. Title, date, and scale derived from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pencil on sheets of ledger paper originally held together with 2 labels, mounted b... More

Nashville--Tenn. and vicinity 1863 /

Sketch map showing fortifications, picket lines, camps of the 105th and 129th Ill. regiments, roads, city streets, railroads, and streams. Relief shown by hachures. Pen-and-ink (brown/red/dark blue). Added late... More

Map showing Genl. Sherman's march from Chattanooga to Atlanta

Map shows an overview of Genl. Sherman's march from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga., in the summer of 1864. Color coding indicates the location of Union and Confederate forces. NOTE: Researchers will be ser... More

Sketch of the roads &c near the position of this Div. on the left of t...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S94, 191 Similar to a map in the Atlas to accompany the official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1891-95, p... More

Rebel defences sic of Charleston Harbor, S.C., December 11th, 1864

Outlines the harbor of Charleston, S.C., beginning with the convergence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers and continuing to the Atlantic Ocean. Sneden traveled through the harbor on a Confederate steamer on Dece... More

Virginia, Bland County. Historic map, Library of Congress

"April 27th, 1866." Signed in ink in lower left corner: John S. Peek ... . Mounted on cloth. LC Land ownership maps, 1217 Includes list of explanations. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site a... More

Map showing the line of the New Haven, Middletown, and Boston Railroad...

Map of New England showing drainage, cities and towns, counties, distances, and the railroad network with named lines. Scale ca. 1:900,000. LC Railroad maps, 473 Description derived from published bibliography.... More

40 miles around New York - Public domain vintage map

Regional map emphasizing railroads and areas/names of local municipalities. Relief shown by hachures. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by H.H. Lloyd & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the D... More

Johnson's China and Japan. - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. From Johnson's Atlas of the world, 1869. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to Japanes... More

E. Sachse, & Co.'s bird's eye view of the city of Baltimore, 1869.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 254 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. Vault AACR2

[Cadastral topographical map of part of N.W. Washington D.C.].

Picryl description: Public domain image of an old city plan, vintage cartography, 18th-19th century map, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Topographical map of Cape May Co., New Jersey : from recent and actual...

General-content county map also showing rural buildings and householders' names; city/village insets also show real-property tracts, building outlines, and owners' names. Hand col. to emphasize township boundar... More

Map of Racine & Kenosha counties, Wisconsin /

LC Land ownership maps, 1435 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes business directories, statistical table, views of public, residential, and commercial properties.

Map of Appalachian Virginia (& parts of W. Va. & Ky.) /

Pen-and-ink and pencil over ink grid, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H209 In pencil on verso: 195. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as raster image.

[Map of the world on the Mercator projection].

Shows latitude of Virginia. Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink and pencil over grid, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H200 Available also through the Librar... More

Map of the United States / - Public domain old map

Arsenals, armories, forts, and barracks indicated by red flags. Gift; Miss Eleanor Sherman Fitch; July 7, 1942. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S197 Available also t... More

Cram's railroad & township map of Mississippi /

Indexed map of Colorado showing the railroads in the state, and the ex...

Shows relief by hachures, drainage, counties, cities and towns, roads, and the railroads with names along the lines. Title from cover. Scale ca.1:1,500,000. LC Railroad maps, 190 Description derived from publis... More

[Map of Ulster County, Ireland]. - Public domain old map

Title and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Pen-and-ink, pencil, crayon, and watercolor, sectioned in 3, and mounted on cloth. In pen-and-ink and pencil in upper left section: Coat-of-arms of Ulster... More