Cartography

It is a good idea to check each institution’s current policies for image reuse before using anything.

 

Library of Congress www.loc.gov/maps

• Mostly US-centric maps.

Bibliothèque nationale de France - Gallica https://www.bnf.fr/en/gallica-bnf-digital-library 

• Especially good if you’re looking for medieval to early modern maps.

David Rumsey www.davidrumsey.com  

• Housed at Stanford, the personal map collection of David Rumsey contains over 200,000 maps, of which 137,000 have been digitized so far for this website.

Stanford University searchworks.stanford.edu 

• Links to Stanford’s Digital Repository, which includes maps and other geographic images and Stanford EarthWorks, which houses geospatial data, digitized maps, and census data.

Harvard Map Collection https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-map-collection 

• Including their collections of pictorial maps, geospatial data, and georeferenced digitized maps.

Yale University https://web.library.yale.edu/maps

• Includes 20,000 digitized pre-1900 maps.

 

Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library https://www.leventhalmap.org/collections/ 

 

Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine https://oshermaps.org/browse-maps 

 

Biblioteca nacional de Espana https://bne.es/es/colecciones/geografia-mapas 

 

Europeana https://www.europeana.eu/en/collections/topic/2971-cartography?page=1&qf=TYPE%3A%22IMAGE%22 

 

Archive.org

 

Polona https://polona.pl/sets?searchCategory=&page=0&size=24&sort=OLDEST&copyright=false&category=Mapy%20i%20Atlasy 

 

John Carter Brown Library, Brown University https://jcblibrary.org/collection 

 

PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/ 

 

Arcanum https://maps.arcanum.com/en/ 

 

National Library of Scotland https://maps.nls.uk/ 

 

Leiden University Map Collection https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/mapsatlases 

 

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. https://www.raremaps.com/