Chicago in Maps
Chicago map web resources collected by a Chicago cartographer
American Mapmaking 1782-1800
“The years after the Revolutionary War saw the emergence of a distinctly American cartography, one that reflected the ambition and optimism characteristic of the young United States. In early 2011 the Harvard Map Collection featured this transitional period in ‘Toward a National Cartography: American Mapmaking, 1782-1800.’ … This exhibit featured 22 rare maps, atlases and books from the collections of Harvard, the American Antiquarian Society, the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, and private lenders… AmericanMapmaking.com presents a virtual tour of this important exhibition.”
Historical Maps Online
View and download from a collection of scanned maps of Illinois and the upper Midwest from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Map Library, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, and the Rare Book & Manuscripts Library.
Handsome Atlas
A view of 19th-century US statistical atlases through the lens of visualization
Historical Maps of the World
From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
Library of Congress Digital Collections
A starting point for searching collections of scanned maps from the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. There may be other items held by the Library of Congress which have been scanned and are available as digital images through the Library of Congress catalog but are not part of a specific named collection.
Panoramic Maps
Part of the Library of Congress American Memory site. Scanned maps of cities in the U.S. and Canada. Can zoom in on the images to see quite a bit of detail. Most images are listed in Panoramic Maps of Cities in the United States and Canada, second edition (1984), by John R. Hébert and Patrick E. Dempsey.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
18th and 19th century cartographic items for the entire world with specific focus on North and South America. More than 21,000 images.
Images of Early Maps on the Web
Extensive listing of sites of scans of old maps, primarily arranged geographically. Part of the “Map History” site.
Old Maps Online
Launched in early 2012, Old Maps Online is the “world’s single largest online collection of historical maps … By the end of [2012] the site aims to have 60,000 maps available for public access. Cooperating institutions include the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, the Czech Republic’s Moravian Library and the San Francisco Bay Area’s David Rumsey Map Collection.”