You may go directly to the collection, The American Revolution and Its Era: Maps and Charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789, in American Memory.

American Revolution and Its Era, 1750-1789, represents an important historical record of the mapping of North America and the Caribbean. The maps and charts in this online collection number well over two thousand different items, with easily as many or more unnumbered duplicates, many with distance colorations and annotations. Almost six hundred maps are original manuscript drawings from famous mapmakers of the period, three of the best eighteenth-century map publishers in London, and other personal collections.

These online exhibits provide context and additional information about this collection.

Mapping the American Revolution and Its Era

These historical era(s) are best represented in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.

Colonial Settlement, 1492-1763
The American Revolution, 1763-1783

These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related primary and secondary sources. Browse the Collection Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web site.

An American Time Capsule
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation, 1774-1873
Continental Congress and Constitutional Conventions, 1774-1789
George Washington Papers, 1741-1799
Map Collections, 1500-2003
Thomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827
Words & Deeds in American History

Recommended additional sources of information.

Read More About It! - A bibliography

Specific guidance for searching this collection.

Search the collection using the keyword search, or Browse by Geographic Location, Subject, or Creator or Title Indexes. For help with search words, go to the Synonym List.

For help with search strategies, see Finding Items in American Memory.

There are a number of different viewing options, but no special viewers are needed to see the maps. A special technology called MrSID (Multi-Resolution Seamless Image Database) by LizardTech allows you to zoom in or out on an area of the map that you wish to inspect. If you wish to save maps with these special viewing options on your computer, you will need to download.