This category is for online viewable collections of historical maps. This category includes both antique maps and modern maps showing historical boundaries.
Images and descriptions of the history of the Great Lakes as depicted in actual maps from 1571 to 1865. Includes significant maps of French, English and American periods. www.geocities.com/ronsmaps61
Historical topographic maps of US East Coast states from 19th and early 20th century, scanned from original US Geological Survey maps historical.maptech.com
50 Holland city maps from 1650 atlas Toonneel der Steden. Site is in English; some maps include city histories in Dutch. grid.let.rug.nl/~welling/maps/blaeu.html
Socio- and political maps of 18th and 19th century United States; classical age Mediterranean. Some maps require Shockwave plug-in. darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas
Thousands of high-resolution digital images of maps from the David Rumsey Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the US. Focus is 18th and 19th c. North and South America cartographic materials. www.davidrumsey.com
Collection of over 800 images of maps displaying the Old World as it looked like about 100 years ago. City maps, area maps. www.discusmedia.com/1900.htm
Searchable collection of digitized maps in the public domain from North America, 1544-1996. Grouped into categories: cities, environment, exploration, immigration, military, and transportation. lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
Animation showing the evolution of state boundaries in the United States from the original 13 colonies to its present state. www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html
50 detailed maps of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, the Balkans, and the Baltics from the 1882 Blackie and Sons atlas. Federation of East European Family History Societies. www.feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html
A historical map with sites of Victorian London during the time of Dr. John Snow (1813-58), the prominent epidemiologist and anesthesiologist. www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/map1859.html
30 explorer and mariner maps of 15th to 19th century, concentrating on world maps and the Americas. Most maps can be zoomed in to see details. University of Minnesota. www.bell.lib.umn.edu/historical/Hist.html
Collection of historical and educational maps of ancient Africa, China, Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Rome, Middle Ages and Prehistoric Man. www.historylink101.com/historical_maps.htm
200 period maps and globes from 16th to 19th c., including world, continent, and city maps. Majority of maps are New World. Includes Lada-Mocarski, Cross, and Lanman map collections. www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/online.html