The UCLA Library's Henry J. Bruman Map Collection
Use our ESRI's Story Map app to learn about the map collection. By combining images, photos, and text with interactive web maps we created a narrative guide about our unique cartographic collection.
Henry J. Bruman Map Collection
Major Online Sources
- UCLA GeoreferencerUCLA old historical maps through the Georeferencer in a crowdsourcing way.
- Fire Insurance Maps Online (FIMO) This link opens in a new windowProvides digital access to historical color fire insurance maps, real estate atlases, and similar land use maps for North America. Also includes all California Sanborn maps. High definition, color and gray-scale images display important historical details not visible on black and white map scans. Includes map research tools and search tips to make finding maps for a specific location. Los Angeles County.
- Calisphere This link opens in a new window
An excellent online resource to search for historical maps from California and Los Angeles. Be sure to use the word "maps" when searching.
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map CollectionOnline map collections covering the world, countries, cities, etc. from the University of Texas, Austin.
Relevant Reading
Encyclopedia of GIS by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783319235196Date: 2017It provides up-to-date information on emerging topics such as spatial big data, smart-phone GIS, urban computing and mobile recommender such as map projections, global positioning systems and spatial cognition.
How to Cite Maps
- Cartographic citations : a style guide / by Suzanne M. Clark, Mary Lynette Larsgaard and Cynthia M. TeagueAvailable in print at the Geology Library and the Southern Regional Library Facility.
- Maps Citation Guide from Western Washington LibrariesIncludes both APA and MLA style format.