Ancient World Mapping Center - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - AWMC promotes cartography and geographic information science in the field of ancient studies.
The Broer Map Library - over 4,000 online historic maps from around the country & the world, including many USGS historic topo maps from around the U.S., and a search engine that lets users search over 100 different collections for online historic maps.
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - Cartography Associates - Rare 18th and 19th century North and South America cartographic history materials. Historic maps of the World, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented
The Endeavor Project - Offering in digital form innovative historical research and educational resources relating to late eighteenth-century voyaging and cross-cultural encounters between the peoples of Europe, Australia and Oceania, focused on James Cook's Pacific voyaging (1768-1779).
Exploring the West from Monticello, University of Virginia - Shows the evolving views of the American continent and the "Passage to the Indies" as they appear in maps up to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
The Hakluyt Society - Inspired by and named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), the famous collector and editor of narratives of voyages and travels and other documents relating to English interests overseas. The Hakluyt Society's objective is to publish and promote public knowledge of records of voyages, travels and geographical discovery.
The History of Cartography, British Library, London - Information about early maps can be found here, directly or indirectly. On the 100 pages of this site you will find comment and guidance, and many, many links - selected for relevance and quality.
The History of Cartography, University of Wisconsin-Madison - A research, editorial, and publishing venture drawing international attention to the history of maps and mapping.
The Library of Congress - American Memory - Map Collections, 1500-1996. The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection.
The Mercator Atlas of Europe - The maps contained in Mercator's atlas of Europe are the most important surviving body of Mercator's work in a single volume. His new view of Europe represented a major cartographic achievement, and for the next two centuries it became the accepted picture of the continent, signifying the beginning of a new geography.
Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education, University of Southern Maine - The Smith and Osher collections comprise fine examples of original maps, atlases, geographies, and globes spanning the years from 1475 to the present.
Paul Mellon's Personal Library, University of Virginia - The first full-scale display of a collection of original American history documents that has been in private hands for over half a century.
The Society for the History of Discoveries - Founded in 1960, to stimulate interest in teaching, research, and publishing the history of geographical exploration. The site lists map seminars, magazines, bibliographies, histories and much else besides maps themselves.
The Yale Map Collection - One of the largest university collections in the United States. Its collections are geographically comprehensive and consist of over 200,000 map sheets, 3,000 atlases, and 900 reference books. Many of the Collection's historically significant maps are now available online.
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