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[Portolan chart of the Mediterranean Sea ca. 1320-1350 : manuscript ch...

Anonymous nautical chart in portolan style probably drawn in Genoa. Covers Mediterranean Sea from the Balearic Islands to the Levantine coast; also covers western part of Black Sea. Oldest original cartographic... More

Rossīi︠a︡--XVIĭ i XVIIĭ vi︠e︡k : sti︠e︡nnai︠a︡ karta dli︠a︡ klassnago ...

Wall map of history of territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (European portion) in the 16th and 17th centuries. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Baltic States, Poland-Lithuania, and Moldavia. Title f... More

[Chart of the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and the coasts of western Euro...

Theodor de Bry - [The Englishmen's arrival in Virginia]

Map showing the coast of Virginia with many islands just off the mainland, two Native territories, Secotan and Weapemeoc, and the Native community of Roanoak on an island at the mouth of a river. Illus. in: Wun... More

The Codex Quetzalecatzin Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows genealogical information and land ownership for the Nahuatl "de Leon" family from 1480-1593. Map covers southern Puebla from the church of Todos Santos, Ecatepec (now suburb to the north east of modern-da... More

[Detail from "Shell road map: Pennsylvania" showing woman driving a ca...

Nova et rece terraum et regnorum Californae, nouae Hispaiae Mexicanae,...

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

"Figures des montaignais, figure des sauvages almouchicois"

Figures of 4 Canadian Indians; cartouche of map. Illus. in: Samuel de Champlain, Les Voyages...de 1613. Reference copy may be in LOT 4623. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption ca... More

[Terrestrial globe gores]. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Title supplied by cataloger. Reissued by Giuseppe di Rossi in 1615. Dedication in upper hemisphere: Illmo. viro optimaraq. artium amatori et Fautori D. Paulo Mellino Romano ... In lowe... More

[Map of Virginia] / discovered and discribed [sic] by Captain John Smi...

1606 map of Virginia as described by John Smith showing the Chesapeake Bay, Potomac River, other geographic features, and a vignette of the Native leader, Powhatan, in council. Illus. in: The generall historie ... More

A mapp of Virginia discovered to ye hills, and in it's latt. from 35 d...

Relief shown pictorially. Based on a manuscript map drawn by John Farrer. Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes text, portrait of ... More

Virginia and Maryland as it is planted and inhabited this present year...

Oriented with north to the right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes cartouche, portait of Augustine Herrman, text, and ill. Vault

Les Deserts D'Egypte, De Thabaide D'Arabie, De Sirie, &c. : ou Sont ex...

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

A prospect of Bridge Town in Barbados 1695 by Samuel Copen / I. Kip fe...

Waterfront view of Bridgetown, Barbados. Transfer; Map Division.

A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in Ameri...

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 Naval-yard at Halifax - Public domain map

Scale 1:720; 60 ft. to an in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-17... More

Plan de la riuiere de Suriname, de la ville de Paramaribo, es de fort ...

Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index of places and inset of fort Zelandia.

Carte de la Barbarie, de la Nigritie, et de la Guinée /

Relief shown pictorially. "Avec privilege, Aout 1707." "The words 'premier geographe du Roi' added in the title ... [indicate] that [a map] could not have been issued before 1718 when [De l'Isle] was appointed ... More

A map of the estate of Edward Vernon Esquire

Land-estate cadastral survey map showing property ownership lines, individual farms contained within the estate, field/hedge lines, field names, and field acreages. The farm names (given in capital lettering) a... More

Plan général du Fort Septentrional du Detour des Anglois, tel qu'il es...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows buildings, internal facilities, and surrounding area. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Mounted on cloth backing. Copy annotated in pencil in lower left margin: 84482. A progress repor... More

Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de la ville de Quebec.

Scale ca. 1:7,000. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications. Indexed for points of interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 595 Available also through the Library o... More

[Cadastral map of Beatty and Hawkins's addition to Georgetown, Washing...

Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville - North America. Historic map, Lib...

Scale ca. 1:6,500,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Differs from other copy in that only boundaries are colored and some place names are highlighted. The boundary of Georgia is continuous. LC Maps of... More

A new map of Jamaica; in which the several towns, forts, and settlemen...

Scale ca. 1:250,000. Relief shown pictorially. Soundings shown in fathoms. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1916 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. "I. Bayly, sculp."... More

Planisphere physique, où l'on voit du pole septentrional ce que l'on c...

Relief shown by hachures. Projection centered on North Pole. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy removed from its copy of Buache's Cartes et tables de la géographi... More

The British & French dominions in North America : particularly shewing...

Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridians: Ferro and London. Includes "short narrative of the French encroachments upon the British territories in North America." Fold-lined. Available also through the Library ... More

L'Amérique septentrionale divisée en ses principaux états

Scale ca. 1:27,000,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "No. 32." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 93 Differs from other copies in geographic features, place names, historical notes, and coloration ... More

Isle de Saint Domingue. - Public domain map drawing

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plan de la ville de Port Royal.

Scale ca. 1:3,500. "Tome I, no. 58." From the author's Le petit atlas maritime. 1764. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1951 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault. AACR2

The above plan is a discription of a new township called Royalsborough...

Scale ca. 1:30,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Shows township lots and owners. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 834 Available also through the Librar... More

A new and accurate map of part of North-America, comprehending the pro...

Scale ca. 1:2,300,000. Hand colored. Covers the area from Quebec to lower Chesapeake Bay and west along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes to Fort Detroit. Shows provinces, towns and cities, forts, some... More

A map of the British dominions in North America, according to the Trea...

Scale ca. 1:10,900,000. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 98 Vault AACR2

A plan of the township of Blenheim, as surveyed and divided in the yea...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A plan of Port Royal in South Carolina. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:63,360. Depths shown by soundings. Described and dated 1776 in William P. Cumming's The Southeast in early maps. Dated 1773 in Essays honoring Lawrence C. Wroth. Includes "Explanation." LC Maps of N... More

Map of the upper part of the Island of Manhattan above Eighty-Sixth St...

Relief shown by hachures. From the Gen. Noel F. Parrish papers in LC Ms. Div. "Lith. by W.C. Rogers & Co. for Joseph Shannon's Manual 1868." Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes notes. LC copy t... More

Bowles's map of the seat of war in New England. Comprehending the prov...

Scale ca. 1:800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 811 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

[Part of a map of the Hudson Highlands showing Forts Clinton and Montg...

Scale ca. 1:70,000 (not "1 English mile to a foot"). Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Has watermarks. Northern of two or more sheets. Incorrect scale note in pencil.... More

Carte du Mexique et de la Nouvelle Espagne : contenant la partie austr...

Relief shown pictorially. Outline color. Phillips, 647 Lowery, 617 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. From: Santini's Atlas universal. Venise, Remondini, 1776-[1784].

Carte de la Florida, de la Louisiane, et pays voisins : pour servir à ...

Public domain document scan of map of Florida, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Carte réduite des côtes orientales de l'Amérique septentrionale. Conte...

Scale ca. 1:1,800,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 110; 651/... More

Plano topografico que comprende una parte del Montegrande, el Rio Yacu...

Shows Uruguay River. Relief shown by shading. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. In upper margin: No. 5o. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault

Carte réduite des côtes et de l'interieur de la presqu' île de la Flor...

Scale ca. 1:1,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. In lower margin: No. 2.H., N. 1.H et 2.H. Ensemble, Prix trois lives. LC Maps of North America, 1... More

Seconds voyageurs aëriens, ou expérience de MM. Charles et Robert fait...

Print shows the balloon of Jacques Alexandre César Charles and Marie-Noël Robert ascending from the Tuileries Garden, Paris, France, December 1, 1783 in the first hydrogen balloon flight; inset map shows locati... More

George Washington Grainger sculpt, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in oval on pedestal with sword, scales, a map, oak branches, and a liberty cap (?) on a short staff. Hart, 805 Baker, 163 Form... More

Mapa de parte de los virreynatos de Buenos Aires, Lima, Sta. Fe y capi...

Shows northwestern South America. "Madrid lo. de marzo de 1796." Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Tenerife. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Annotated in pencil on verso: N. 18. Available also through the L... More

A new chart of the Mediterranean Sea / nautical chart

Depths shown by soundings in selected areas. Statement of dedication: To the Right Honorable Horatio Baron Nelson of the Nile and of Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, Rear Admiral of the Blue, and Knight of the Milita... More

Map of the city of Jerusalem : exhibiting the location of the most imp...

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Carte conjecturale de l'Atlantide : d'après le Colonel Bory de St. Vin...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Delaware Historic map, Library of Congress

Prime meridians: London and Philadelphia. State II, according to Wheat & Brun. LC copy mounted on cloth and laminated. Stamped on in lower left margin: 224A. Stamped on verso: 8132. Wheat & Brun 1969, 485 Avail... More

A map exhibiting all the new discoveries in the interior parts of Nort...

Relief shown by hachures. Shows "Rivers added east of the Rocky Mountains, 90⁰ L. 45⁰ Lat.," from Tooley's Printed maps of America. In lower margin: London: Published Jan. 1, 1795 by A. Arrowsmith, No. 24 Rathb... More

A map of the State of New York. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:950,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Contracted from his large map of the state." Shows township boundaries. Includes index to "Towns" in Kings and Richmond counties. Available also thr... More

Plan der Stadt Paris mit ihren umliegenden Gegenden = Plan de la ville...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Title in German and French. Place names in French.

A map of the discoveries of Capt. Lewis & Clark from the Rockey Mounta...

Relief shown pictorially. Meridians: London and Philadelphia. Ink and watercolor, sectioned in 2 and mounted on cloth. Exhibited: Rivers, edens, empires: Lewis & Clark and the revealing of America, Library of C... More

Carte générale de la Nouvelle Hollande.

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Fort Green, New York. - Public domain vintage map

Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. "No. 35 and scale of 60 feet to an inch." "Office of Chief of Engineers, War Department. 5810 620" on verso. Minimal level cataloging record. Avail... 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

Australasia. Historic map, Library of Congress

Massachusetts. Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Very similar stylistically, in portrayal of relief, and in lettering to manuscript map of Maine of same time that was done by A.T. Perkins. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Imperfect: Britt... More

View near Fishkill / painted by W.G. Wall ; engraved by I. Hill.

Print shows a view of the Hudson River from a roadway, with two men are tending fishing nets and stone buildings on the hillside above the road. No. 17 of the Hudson River Port Folio. Stamped lower right: Map ... More

Geographical conversation cards : [states of the United States] /

Each playing card has a map of 1 state or territory of the U.S. Title from printed label affixed to box. Pack complete in 30 playing cards. Incomplete: 28 playing cards and 24 question-and-answer cards as of Ma... More

Union District, South Carolina / - Public domain old map

Relief shown by hachures. Scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. "Approved, Chas. R. Suter, 1st Lt., U.S. Engrs., Chf. Engr., D. S." Pen and ink tracing of a map in Robert Mills's Atlas of the State of S... More

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

A diagram of the triangulation for the survey of the coast of the Unit...

Shows triangulation lines connecting base points in southwestern Connecticut, western Long Island, and New York City vicinity. Rubber-stamped at foot of title: Copyright secured according to law. Annotated/sign... 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

Polk's dream Historic map, Library of Congress

Here Clay is critical of James K. Polk's public advocacy of the 54.40 parallel as the northern boundary of American territory in Oregon. The cartoon also alludes to widespread uncertainty as to the course the ... More

Map of North America. - Public domain vintage map

[Map of Straits of Magellan, showing Patagonian Indians greeting Dutch...

Public domain reproduction of art print, 17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Map of the route surveyed from the Mississippi at Lake Providence in L...

Map showing the position of Chicago in connection with the North West ...

Map of the north-central United States, east of the Mississippi River, showing the railroad network. Scale ca. 1:2,800,000. LC Railroad maps, 115 Description derived from published bibliography. Inset: Illinois... More

Map of Somerset County, New Jersey /

Relief shown by hachures. Inset : Plan of Somerville. Includes names of property owners and 7 views. LC Land ownership maps, 465 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - salle hypostyle - decoration de la paroi in...

Detail showing hieroglyphics and sculpture on interior wall in the hypostyle hall in the main temple as seen from "point L" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intére... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - salle hypostyle - fenêtre et chapiteaux des...

Transverse view of central colonnade of hypostyle hall in the main temple as seen from "point K" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'ar... More

Karnak (Thèbes) - palais - partie postérieure - fragment de colonnades...

View showing fragment of colonnade with columns topped with the closed blossoms of papyrus in the rear section of the main temple as seen from "point S" (see map, pl. 42 bis). Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites... More

Bonner's pocket map of the state of Georgia

Prime meridian: Washington. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Stained and with small tears along folds. Acquisitions control no. 99-21

Map of Marion County, Ohio / - Public domain old map

LC Land ownership maps, 652 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illustrations. LC copy imperfect: Mounted on cloth backing, halved to enable folding.

Topographical map of Seneca County, New York /

General-content county map showing towns (townships), town survey sections (numbered), rural buildings, and householders' names. Hand colored to emphasize town boundaries. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown... More

Map of Montgomery County, New York : from actual surveys /

General-content county map showing towns (townships), rural buildings, and householders' names. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphasize town boundaries. "Entered according to act of Congress in the ... More

Map showing the location of the Charleston & Savannah R.R. May, 1856.

Map of the South Carolina tidewater area between Charleston and Savannah, Ga. "The red line represents the located line; the blue lines represent some of the principal experimental lines." Chartered December 20... More

Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts /

Relief shown by hachures. LC Land ownership maps, 316 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the...

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.

Cooke's new map of the state of North Carolina : constructed from actu...

Relief shown by hachures. Greenwich meridian. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes: North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind -- Comparative e... More

A new and complete railroad map of the United States compiled from rel...

Map of the eastern half of the United States showing cities, state boundaries, finished railroads, and railroads in progress. Scale ca. 1:4,500,000. LC Railroad maps, 33 Description derived from published bibli... More

Colton's Kansas and Nebraska. - Public domain old map

Detailed map showing cities and towns, county boundaries, roads, and the railroad network. 1:1,140,480 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Farm map of Plumstead Township, Bucks Co., Penn'a /

Wall map showing farm outlines, owners' names, acreages, rural buildings, road network, and farm lanes. Hand col. to distinguish individual farms and roads. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Originall... More

Map of Texas showing the Sabine and Galveston Bay Rail Road, or Texas ...

Outline map of Texas and vicinity showing railroads actually built, under construction, and chartered but not under contract. Scale ca. 1:2,002,000. LC Railroad maps, 551 Description derived from published bibl... More

Map of Onondaga County, New York : showing military townships and thei...

Shows real-property tracts and lines only in town (townships) adjacent to Syracuse; other towns are subdivided into numbered military townships. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored to emphasize town (townshi... More

[Fauquier Co., Va. : northwestern part].

Relief shown by hachures. Shows the names of some residents. Oriented with north toward right. Each sheet pasted together in 6 sections, sectioned in 2, and mounted on cloth. "Map from the Confederate Engineer ... More

Memphis and vicinity / Historic map, Library of Congress

LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S168, 429 Finished pen and ink map drawn on tracing cloth. "For General Sherman, General of the Army." Indicates fortifications at Fort Pickering and Fort Harris, roads and streets,... More

[Map of the coast of South Carolina, from Charleston to Savannah].

Title, date, and scale from Stephenson's Civil War maps, 1989. Portion of an unidentified printed map showing roads, railroads, towns, and drainage. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), S126 Available also through the ... More

Sectional map of the surveyed portion of Minnesota and north western p...

Shows portion of Morrison County to the west of the Mississippi River, this area shown on other editions as part of Todd County, and section lines in Traverse and Big Stone counties. Cover title: Sewall's map o... 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.

Map of the rail-roads of the state of New York prepared under the dire...

Map of New York and parts of adjacent states showing drainage, relief by hachures, county boundaries, cities and towns. Different colors in dictate railroads in operation, in progress of construction, and propo... More

Lloyd's American railroad map, showing the whole seat of the war.

Scale ca. 1:1,900,800. Hand colored. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.) 14 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes illus., "Time dial," and inset of "Map of Escambia & Santa... More

Fort Sumter National Monument - Public domain old map

Title from panel. Bird's-eye view of Fort Sumter in 1861. "*GPO: 2006--320-369/00595. Reprint 2006." Includes descriptive index, text, ill., and map of Fort Sumter walking tour. Text, col. ill., and map of Char... More

Second battle field at Bull Run - Public domain old map

Shows the Union forces under Gen. John Pope and the Confederates under Gen. Robert E. Lee on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of August 1862 in an area of Virginia defined by the towns of Chantilly to the north, Manass... More

Pictorial pilgrim's progress - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Lloyd (H.H.) & Co. Copyright deposit: May 29, 1862 [inscribed]; Nov. 19, 1862 [stamped]

Lloyd's map of the southern states showing all the railroads, their st...

Map of the country between the York and James Rivers in 1862 and 1863 ...

Map of Pr. George, Surry, Sussex and Southampton counties, Virginia /

Shows names of some residents. "Map from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer chief engineer - Presented to - the West Point Military Academy by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Mini... More