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[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

[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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

An exact prospect of Charlestown, the metropolis of the province of So...

Print shows a view of the waterfront at Charleston harbor, Charleston, South Carolina, with several ships and small boats in the harbor and men, some with fishing nets, standing on a bit of land in the lower le... 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The European plan / Th. Nast. - Drawing. Public domain image.

Maréchal MacMahon of France, using scissors labeled "Canal", is cutting a map of North and South America on which the Mason-Dixon line has been drawn through the Isthmus of Panama; John Bull stands to the left ... 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

Bird's eye view of Ilion, N.Y. : population 4500 /

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic city, cityscape, street view, buildings, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Shanghai xian cheng xiang zu jie quan tu.

Scale ca. 1:5400. Revision of map originally drawn by Xu Yucang in 1875. Shows foreign concessions in Shanghai. Chinese area in yellow, French in red, British in blue, and American in orange. Available also thr... More

Map of Wright County, Iowa / - Public domain old map

Shows landowners. LC Land ownership maps, 211 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes advertisement. LC copy sectioned in four and mounted on cloth.

Plat of the survey and subdivision of the estate of the late Clark Mil...

Cadastral map showing buildings. At upper left: On Thursday 18th day of June 1885 ... we will sell ... this property. Includes notes. LC copy 1 torn, missing sections along edges, and mounted on cloth backing. ... More

Perspective map of the city of Little Rock, Ark., State capital of Ark...

Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye-view. "Copyrighted for the 'Gazette Printing Co.' Little Rock, Ark." Indexed for points of interest. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 14 Available also through the Lib... More

Honolulu and vicinity / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown by hachures. Shows drainage, public buildings (named), other buildings, etc. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

New map of Marion County, Florida / - Public domain map

Relief shown by contours. Cadastral map, showing lot lines, lot/block numbers, and names of landowners. "Copyright secured by Fred Bourquin in 1887." "Published by Fred. Bourquin ... ." "Adopted as the official... More

Balto. and Poto. R.R., profile of tracks in Washington.

Typewritten on label affixed to verso: Profile of Sixth St., M'd & V'a Ave's, from the tunnel to the Potomac, showing effects of sinking tracks, &c. 1890. Blueprint annotated in yellow, red, and lead pencils. P... More

Portions of Alexandria and Fairfax counties, Virginia, showing the rou...

Shows 3 principal routes and auxiliary connecting routes. "To accompany report of January 4th, 1890, Peter C. Haines, Lieut. Colonel of Engineers." Relief shown by contours. Oriented with north toward the upper... More

Map of Mitchell County, Texas. - Public domain old map

Shows landownership. "Charles J. Canda, Simeon J. Drake and William Strauss, proprietors of the lands heretofore belonging to the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. Address: W. H. Abrams, general agent, Dallas, T... More

Souvenir map of the World's Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park and M...

"Assisted by: D.H. Roberts, H.M. Schnepff, Heinze Bro's.; Draughtsmen, Surveys & Grades Dep't. W.C.E." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Burlington Route. Historic map, Library of Congress

Map of the United States showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, state and county boundaries, time zones, and the railroad network with main lines emphasized. Scale ca. 1:4,400,000. LC Railroad ... More

Home Rule Map of Ireland. - Public domain vintage map

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

Map of the east end of Racine County in the state of Wisconsin /

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

Official map of Pima County, Arizona.

Scale ca. 1:200,000. Relief shown by hachures. Shows landownership. "Copyrighted by George J. Roskruge, Tuscon, Arizona, 1893." "Adopted as the official map of Pima County by resolution of Board of Supervisors,... More

Northwest, or no. 1, sheet of preliminary map of Antietam (Sharpsburg)...

Scale ca. 1:10,400. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 250.2 The Geography and Map Division has sheets 1 and 2 of 4 sheets. For a description of sheet 2, see Civil War Maps entry no. 250.3. Map extends from Sharpsbur... More

Map of Chickamauga National Military Park.

Scale not given. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 154.5 Copyright no. 20184aa, May 27, 1895. 98 sites are listed and keyed by number to the map. Description derived from published bibliography. Available also throu... More

Official map of the County of Napa, California : compiled from the off...

Relief shown by shading. Shows drainage, roads, railroads, land ownership, township, section and quarter section lines, ranchos, political townships, school districts, etc. Inset map: City of Napa. "Approved by... More

Millroy's map of Alaska and the Klondyke gold fields.

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

Mrs. Frazer Baker and children, family of the murdered postmaster at L...

51785 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - group portrait, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Route of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake, Feb'y 184...

Not drawn to scale. Cover title: Pictorial map showing the route traveled by the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake. Pictorial map. Shows daily progress along the route. Accompanied by: Guide to the... More

Plat of the exterior boundaries of Sequoia National Park, California :...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows drainage, trails, etc. "The above plat ... is strictly conformable to the field notes therof, on file in this office, which have been examined and approved. U.S. Surveyor General... More

Birds eye view of Casco Bay, Portland, Maine, and surroundings.

Shows Maine Central Railroad and steamship lines. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2: 110; 651/1; 651/2; 710

Reno, the commercial center of Nevada /

Bird's-eye view. Buildings and trees shown pictorially. Below view and at lower margin, in red: The Overland Trust and Realty Co., phone 7--Successors to the Overland Banking Realty Co., 106 E. commercial row, ... More

Map of the Philippine Islands / - Public domain map

Relief shown by shading, hachures, and spot heights. "Copyright, 1908, by Caspar W. Hodgson." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift: S.W. Boggs. Insets: Babuyan Islands... More