Cartography
Online Map Collections
It is a good idea to check each institution’s current policies for image reuse before using anything. Make sure to cite your sources!
Library of Congress www.loc.gov/maps
- Mostly US-centric maps available in their collection.
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 University, the personal map collection of David Rumsey contains over 200,000 maps, of which 137,000 have been digitized so far for this website. Topics and temporal coverage vary.
Stanford University searchworks.stanford.edu
- Links to Stanford’s Digital Repository, which includes maps and other geographic images, and Stanford EarthWorks, which houses an assortment of 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
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/