The 38,000-plus maps and other cartographic images here focus on rare 18th- and 19th-century North American and South American materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa also are represented. View maps, compare them side-by-side and download hi-resolution files.
This University of Georgia site features maps depicting the New World, Colonial and Revolutionary America, Revolutionary Georgia, Union & Expansion, the American Civil War, Frontier to New South, Savannah and the Coast and Transportation. Maps have been scanned in at a large scale, so you may need to adjust their size in an image-editing program before printing.
You’ll find historical maps galore on this site. The LOC has divvied up its digital map collection into seven categories: Cities and Towns, Cultural Landscapes, Military Battles and Campaigns, Conservation and the Environment, Discovery and Exploration, Transportation and Communication and General Maps. Almost all the maps can be downloaded.
The collection includes both historical and present-day maps of the Americas and the world. Click on US to go to a page of links for each state. Among the historical map groups are Early Inhabitants, Exploration and Settlement, US Territorial Growth, Military History Maps and Later Historical Maps.
- The Family Tree Historical Maps Book—Maps of US states from 1790 to 1900
- The Family Tree Historical Maps Book: Europe—Maps of European countries from the 1700s to 1900s
- The Family Tree Historical Atlas of American Cities—Maps of the most historically important US cities from 1800 to 1920