Maps, Atlases, Aerial Images, and Cartographic Resources

From CSU Chico Meriam Library, Special Collections Department

Stanford University Library presents images from the Glen McLaughlin Collection of California as an Island maps, nearly 750 maps obtained by Mr. McLaughlin over nearly 40 years. The maps' dates range from 1622 to the mid-1800's.

1397 diseños are available online. Print copies are on deposit at the UCB Bancroft Library.

Historical Maps of California from Map of US

UCLA Special Collections

Works Progress Administration Digital Archive provides 345 hand-colored maps from the 1933-39 land use survey of Los Angeles. Detailed and colorful maps of the built up L.A. region

Geography, Ancient--Maps.
Classical geography--Maps.

The Atlas describes and maps every change in the boundaries of all United States counties from the early 1600s to 2000. You can use interactive maps or download the shapefiles.

Charles O. Paullin’s 1932 atlas digitized and animated by the University of Ricmond. Includes nearly 700 maps.

The Charles E. Young Research Library owns the first volume of the set, "Europa-Germania-Germania Inferior". The volume was given to the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies as part of a donation from the Margaret W. Romani Estate, and the Center offered the Atlas to the UCLA Library. The atlas contains extensive text, but only the map pages were scanned for this project. Scanning was funded by the Henry J. Bruman Educational Foundation.

The oldest surviving road map of Great Britain, also called the Bodleian Map.

1902

Scanned nautical charts and surveys of the United States first published by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. This site is hosted by NOAA.

From the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a digital collection of maps listed in the bibliography Maps of Africa to 1900: A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Bassett & Scheven, Urbana: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, 2000).

The Library of Congress has digitized the 1870, 1880, 1890, and 1970 National Atlas.

An Esri Story Map

Digitized maps from the Bodleian Map Collection.

18,460 maps 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.

The David Rumsey Historical Maps Collection, navigable by region through the Google Maps interface.

From the University of British Columbia

Contains over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to present day. The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle maps.

Provides easy access to digitized historical maps from libraries around the world

Maps of London, 19th and 20th century United Kingdom maps and fire insurance plans

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society