city plans, united states

Gettysburg and vicinity. Constructed and engraved to illustrate "The w...

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Sketch of rebel fortifications at Hayne's Bluff.

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Plan of Andersonville Prison or "Camp Sumter," April, 1864.

Illustrates the layout of Andersonville Camp, as Sneden refers to the prison, and the surrounding area where Confederate guard troops of the 1st Florida Battery were stationed including the headquarters of Capt... More

Plan of the city of Washington : the capitol [sic] of the United State...

Shows wards and major buildings. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by S. Augustus Mitchell, Jr. ... Eastern District of Pennsylvania." "26." LC copy accompanied by typewritten information... More

Mills & manufacturing establishments of the city of Battle Creek, Calh...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Shows buildings along the river. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 335 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and advertisement... More

Map of Rock Creek Cemetery near Washington, D.C. /

Shows lots, lot numbers and dimensions, and section letters. LC copy torn, halved, and mounted on cloth backing. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

Plat book of Le Sueur County, Minnesota : showing township plats, city...

Copyright: 1928 L.W. Prendergast and H.C. Lende, Le Sueur Center, Minnesota. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5113 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index,... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Illustrated atlas of Noble County, Ohio : published from actual survey...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5951 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes, brief history of Noble County, portraits of early Noble County residents, ... More

Standard atlas of Lyon County, Kansas : including a plat book of the v...

Includes indexes and portraits of early Lyon County residents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Front and back boards separated from binding. Vendor:... More

A plan of the city of Savannah : with a drawing of the part of the cit...

Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north toward lower right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Select buildings shown pictorially. Annotations in pencil. Minor tears around edges of sheet repaired by conservatio... More

A plan of the east part of Long Island Sound from remarks made on boar...

Scale ca. 1:127,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy annotated: By Lieutt. Knatchbull, Recd. 31 Jany. 1778. Includes directions for navigatio... More

The village of Flushing, Queens County, L.I. : nine miles east of the ...

Cadastral map of the incorporated village of Flushing showing lot lines, dimensions, buildings (residential/non-residential), landholders' names, marshlands, and village boundary. Oriented with north to the lef... More

New map of Stark County, Ohio / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 677 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes population statistical table, list of post offices, views of public, and residential properties. I... More

Topographical map of Franklin County, Maine /

Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 267 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes distance chart, statistics, and illustrations. Insets: Allen's Mills -- ... More

Plan of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Va. Showing position of both ar...

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Plan of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., Decr. 13, 1862.

Map shows the region surrounding Fredericksburg, Va., including Marie's Heights outside of the city and Falmouth across the Rappahannock River. Due to Burnside's slow maneuvering of the Union forces, Lee was a... More

Map of Winona County, Minnesota. 1867.

Phillips, 2046 LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 414.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Monson, Massachusetts. 1879. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 310.1 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to poin... More

East Pepperell, Massachusetts. 1886., engraving, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 287 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Indexed for points of interest. AACR2: 100; 710/1

Atlas of the city of Boston, Brighton : from actual surveys and offici...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. In manuscript on piece of paper pasted inside of front cover: "C.E. Cushing, 68 Devonshire St., Boston." Acquisitions c... More

Atlas and farmers' directory of Charles Mix County, South Dakota : con...

"On township maps township roads are shown with parallel lines, rural routes are shown with broken black lines, location of farm buildings is shown with black square, school district boundary lines are shown wi... More

Map of Georgetown : act of May 15, 1751.

Cadastral map showing lot numbers. Covers area bounded by 33rd, Prospect, Thomas Jefferson streets N.W., and the Potomac waterfront. Below title: Survey & plat completed February 27, 1752; 69 lots sold on March... More

A plan of the island of Burlington : and a view of the city from the R...

Cadastral map showing buildings, lot lines, orchards, and gardens. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Includes index to points of interest and panoramic view at bottom of sheet. Available also through t... More

Washington in 1800. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows buildings and blocks containing buildings. Title at head of text: Washington in 1800 : location of the habitable buildings one hundred years ago. W.B. Bryan mentioned in text. Includes text. Text on vers... More

Sketch of the action fought near Bladensberg [i.e. Bladensburg], Augus...

Oriented with north to the right. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Imperfect: Tears, stains, mounted on cloth.

Map of the city of Detroit in the State of Michigan /

Scale ca. 1:2,400; 200 ft. to an in. "Entered according to Act of Congress ... by John Farmer, AD 1835." Cadastral map. Cited in Alberta G. Koerner's Detroit and vicinity before 1900, no. 53. Available also thr... More

Plan of Genl Q. A. Gillmore's position on Morris Island, Charleston S....

Shows the progression of earthworks constructed to allow Union forces to approach Fort Wagner. Gillmore's troops reached the ditch surrounding the fort on September 6. The Confederate forces abandoned the fort ... More

Map of 1st and 2nd Bull Run battles. Official map from the Topographic...

In this detail of a printed map, Sneden has juxtaposed troop locations during First Bull Run (21 July 1861) and Second Bull Run (29-30 August 1862). He has also noted the location where Union General Philip Kea... More

Map of Montgomery County, Tennessee : from actual surveys and official...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows roads, railroads, property tract lines, tract numbers, and landowners' names. Includes business directories, insets of New Providence, Palmyra, City of Clarksville, State line, a... More

Plat of Columbia Heights : Hon. John Sherman, trustee /

Scale ca. 1:1,750. "Nov. 1st 1881--recorded in liber, A. R. Shepherd, folio 137." Cadastral map. From the Breckinridge family papers. "Lots for sale by A. L. Barber and Co. ... Washington, D.C." LC copy fold-li... More

Situation at Harper's Ferry, Sep't 15 - 1862, 7A.M.

"Sketch map" "R.E.L. Russell, Baltimore, Md, 1931" LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 698 Hand colored positive photocopy showing Confereate troop positions in red, rivers and woods in green, and roads in brown. Unio... More

The North Anna and movement from Spottsylvania [sic], May 21-26, 1864 ...

"Lee's famous "hog-snout" line." "Read numerically." Maps 1 to 4 are dated 1933. Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil with blank leaves at end. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War M... More

Atlas of Dearborn County, Indiana : to which is added a map of the sta...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 4513 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index and brief history of Dearborn County. LC copy imperfect: Front board and rear... More

Fifteen pen and ink maps of the battle of the Wilderness /

Annotated in pen-and-ink and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 668 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10662 Call no. cited in LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.): G129... More

Panoramic view of Washington, D.C., Panoramic Photograph

Five-part panorama shows the mall area of Washington, D.C., and surrounding buildings, from the Smithsonian Institution Building (now the "Castle"). Left section shows Washington Monument under construction in ... More

Bowles's new pocket map of the most inhabited part of New England; com...

Topographical map of Nashville, Tenn. / during American Civil War

Shows physical relief, street rights-of-way, railroads, and outstanding buildings. Does not show vernacular buildings or other cultural features. Relief shown by gradated hachures. Signed in ink handwriting at ... More

Battle of the Antietam fought September 16 & 17, 1862

Scale 1:10,560. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 246 Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, showing "line of Hooker's advance," roads, houses and names of occupants, fences, vegetation, drainage, and relief... More

Adrian, Michigan 1866. Historic map, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 332 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes ill. and index to points of interest. Va... More

Map of the grounds of the National Chautauqua of Glen Echo near Washin...

Cadastral map. Includes note and ill. LC copy fold-lined and taped. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Smithsonian Institution : [Washington D.C.].

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Standard atlas of Becker County, Minnesota : including a plat book of ...

LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5082 Includes indexes, advertisements, and portraits of early Becker County residents. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vendor: Jo... More

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

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Minneapolis, Minn. / Hoffman ; Chas. Shober & Co. Props. Chicago Litho...

Bird's-eye view of Minneapolis, Minnesota, seen from the west, with prominent features identified below image. The roof of Macalester College dominates the foreground. The original Hennepin Avenue bridge spans ... More

A plan of the city and environs of Philadelphia.

Scale ca. 1:42,000. Hand colored. Shows names of landowners in rural areas. LC copy annotated, has "8.11.45.Vme." Includes "Elevation of the State House." Available also through the Library of Congress web site... More

Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt....

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650

Virginia, Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:1,310,000. Facsimile. Ninth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Cadastral survey map of original land grants and resurveys along the P...

Shows tracts dated approx. 1675 to 1808. Also shows landowners' names and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal condemnations. Title devised by cataloger. Photostat copy of ms. map. Includes survey notes. At lower right: D... More

Plan of the Battle of Savage's Station Virginia. Sunday, June 29th 186...

The Battle of Savage's Station was part of the Seven Days' Battles of the Peninsular Campaign. This map shows the area of Savage's Farm in Henrico County, Va., to the north and the Williamsburg Road to the sout... More

Map of supplementary reconnaissance of the approaches to Philadelphia ...

Topographic map showing Civil War earthworks and batteries. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Authorship statement citing Whiting's name is in handwriting (black ink). Pen-and-ink, red ink (contours), ... More

Map of Gauly Farm, 1722 acres. - Public domain old map

Shows the farm near the mouth of New River, at Gauley, Fayette County, West Virginia and names of some residents. Pen-and-ink on tracing paper, mounted on cloth. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), H321 Available also... More

Topographical map of Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Mass

Scale 1:2,400; 200 ft. to the in. Insets: Pittsfield.--Tillotson & Collin's Mills, town of Pittsfield. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Map showing the location of the road and the land grant of the Atlanti...

Map showing portions of Arizona and New Mexico indicating land grants on either side of the right of way of the railroad. Scale 1:380,160. LC Railroad maps, 329 Description derived from published bibliography. ... More

Birds eye view of Aberdeen, Dak. - Public domain old map

Perspective map not drawn to scale. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 885 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes col. illus. and index to points of interest. AACR2: 100; ... More

Pacific Coast from San Francisco Bay to the Strait of Juan de Fuca /

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S202 Includes table of sea coast lights and notes. In top left margin: No. 602. In top center margin: Plate no.... More

National Prohibition Park, Westerleigh, borough of Richmond, Staten Is...

Aerial view to horizon. Existing buildings and residences shown pictorially. Relief shown by landform drawings. Contains cadastral map of National Prohibition Park residential subdivision showing new streets, t... More

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

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Atlas of the city of Boston, Brighton : from actual surveys and offici...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. In manuscript on piece of paper pasted inside of front cover: "C.E. Cushing, 68 Devonshire St., Boston." Acquisitions c... More

Riddell's Greene County atlas, 1896.

Title from cover. LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 5899 Includes index, advertisements, and brief history of Greene County. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annota... More

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of ...

The earliest extant plan of Washington D.C., known as "The L'Enfant Plan." At upper right: Office, Commissioner of Public Buildings, D.C. Dark and light inks, watercolors, and lead pencil annotations (some eras... More

Lloyd's Baltimore elevated building map : of the five hundred million ...

Pictorial map of Baltimore city center containing 3-dimensional drawings of numerous office buildings. "Made from actual photographic views at an expense of many thousand dollars and two year's time." Northern-... More

City atlas of Oswego, New York : from official records, private plans ...

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View of Charleston S.C. from Fort Wagner, Morris Isla

Flag view across harbor, toward city and waterfront. Confederate flags flying over docks, and fortress at right. Title inscribed below image. Transfer, Map Division.

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

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

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

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

Upper Potomac from McCoy's Ferry to Conrad's Ferry and adjacent portio...

Scale ca. 1:130,000. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 245.15 Map, without border, extends from Frederick, Maryland, west to Winchester, Virginia, and Hagerstown, Maryland, south to Front Royal, Virginia. Depicted a... 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

El Reno, Oklahoma Territory 1891., engraving, Library of Congress

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Bird's-eye-view. "Published by T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ... More

Kennebunk, Me., 1895 / Historic map, Library of Congress

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Comprehensive plan for the National Capital, general land use objectiv...

Scale ca. 1:29,000. "NCPC Map File No. 40.00/100.00-28417." "September 30, 1978." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP AACR2

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

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Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

Public domain aerial photograph, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of architecture design, diagram, drawing, building plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions im... More

Atlas of the city of Boston, Brighton : from actual surveys and offici...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index. In manuscript on piece of paper pasted inside of front cover: "C.E. Cushing, 68 Devonshire St., Boston." Acquisitions c... More

Atlas map of Greene County, Illinois /

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Standard atlas of Audubon County, Iowa : including a plat book of the ...

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes indexes and portraits of early Audubon County residents. Vendor: Waverly Auctions Acquisitions control no. 2007-072

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

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

Plan of a survey for the proposed Boston and Providence Rail-Way.

Topographic strip map showing proposed lines of survey. This is the earliest railroad map represented in the Library's map collections. It is listed as one of the "Rail Roads Never Before Delineated" by Henry S... More

Map of an exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842...

Relief shown by hachures. State 3: Includes notes, Great Basin statement, and place name South Park below Bayou Salade; some place names differ from other states. "Published in Report of the exploring expeditio... More

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.

Plan of Andersonville Prison, Georgia 1864.

Shows dimensions, layout, outbuildings and immediate surroundings of Andersonville Prison Camp, Georgia. NOTE: Researchers will be served a color photocopy of this diary image. Relief shown by hachures. This it... More

Ohio River between Mound City and Cairo /

Depths shown by soundings in feet. Indicates Fort Cairo, naval depot, and "harbor for powder barges" at Mound City, soundings in feet, roads and streets, and vegetation. Upper left margin: No. 31, No. 3020. Pri... More

Map of Antietam National Cemetery at Sharpsburg, Maryland

Scale 1:600. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 245.65 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1867 by the Board of Trustees of the 'Antietam National Cemetary' in the Clerks Office of the U.S. District Cou... More

View of Naugatuck, Conn. 1877.. 19th century, Library of Congress coll...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Hand colored. Bird's-eye-view. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 85.4 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus. and index to point... More

Yreka & Mt. Shasta, Siskiyou County, Cal., looking south east /

Birds-eye view. Relief shown pictorially. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 53.1 Indexed. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Official map of Dallas County, Texas /

Shows landownership. "Dallas, Texas, November 1st, 1886. I, J.M. Strong, County Surveyor of Dallas County, Texas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing map is the latest and most correct representation... More

Plat showing proposed U.S. military reservation at Fort Stevens D.C. /

Partial cadastral map. Blueprint. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP

Business section of the city of Birmingham, Alabama.

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. Photocopy. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 5 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Comprehensive plan for the National Capital, major thoroughfare plan.

Scale ca. 1:50,000. "January 31, 1974." "NCPC map file no. 44.00/100.00-27337." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. DCP AACR2

Pictorial St. Louis, the great metropolis of the Mississippi valley; a...

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Thirty pen and ink maps of the Maryland Campaign, 1862 : drawn from de...

Photocopies of manuscript maps showing Union and Confederate troop positions. Confederate troop positions annotated in red pencil. Title from typewritten label (5 x 14 cm.) affixed to p. [1]. LC Civil War maps ... More

Plan of the town with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of C...

Scale ca. 1:19,000. Relief shown by hachures. Battle of Bunker Hill shown pictorially. From James Murray's Impartial history of the present war in America. v. 1. p. 431. Includes historical note on fires and in... More

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

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Plan of the city of New York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:13,000. Hand colored. Shows ward boundaries. Includes index to buildings. Wheat & Brun. Maps and Charts (1978 ed.) 387 LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1113 Available also through the Library of... More

Plano numero 1. de la barra, y Rio de San Juan desde su entrada hasta ...

Covers Saint Johns River and environs from Atlantic coast to current site of Jacksonville, Florida. Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. Shows defenses and fortifications. Also shows vegetation ... More

The Mall as proposed by Pierre L'Enfant 1790 : from the original : Was...

At head of title: Jan. 1st 1900. "To accompany annual report of Theo. A. Bingham, June 30th 1901, Col. U.S. Army." "Eng 57 1." LC copy fold-lined, halved, mounted on cloth backing, and annotated in pencil: Copi... More

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 Isaac Weld's Travels through the states of North America ..., 1799. LC c... More