Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his ...

Robert Berlo on one of his many road trips. Maps from Robert Berlo’s collection, donated after his death to the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford University. A detail from ...

An extremely rare and massive 16th-century map has been been fully assembled and digitized for the first time ever. "It's the largest map of the world made during the Renaissance, you know, at the ...

A map collection used by British monarch King George III has been made available to the public. The collection includes maps from famous events like Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and the American War ...

The maps cover the period between 1680 and 1930 and, in addition to the cartographic drawings, contain information about the history of the site. Each map has been georeferenced, so it is possible to ...

Robert Berlo got hooked on maps at an early age. As a kid growing up in San Francisco he’d pore over roadmaps in the backseat of the car on family vacations. Sometime around age 11 he started ...

History and geography lovers rejoice! You can now see and even download incredible maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection database. The website contains more than ...

A.D. 1498. The Discovery of America. An 1830 map from Edward Quin of London showing black clouds receding from the borders to indicate the expansion of geographical knowledge over time Stanford ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library has roughly 8000 UN authored maps in its collection. This map collection is unique in its scope, relating to the work of the United Nations through the decades. The ...