World Historical Maps

MAP COLLECTIONS & atlases

• Cartografía histórica (Biblioteca virtual del Banco de la República - Bogota)
• Historical Maps (Cultural Resources)
• Historical Maps (German GenWeb Project)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
• Istoriceskije karty (in Russian)
• Istoriceskije karty (L. N. Gumilev and others; in Russian)
• Map Collection (David Rumsey Map Collection)
• Map Collection (Digital Library of the University of Missouri)
• Map Collection (University of Texas - Austin)
• Map Collections (The Library of Congress)
• Mapping History (University of Oregon)
• Maps (Archiving Early America)
• Maps (Le Monde Diplomatique)
• W. K. Morrison Special World Map Collection (Nova Scotia Community College)
• World History: Maps (F. Smitha)
• World War I – Maps (Trenches on the Web)
• World War II - Maps (in Russian)
• Atlante storico (Atlasmundi.com)
• Atlas général d'histoire et de géographie (Vidal Lablache, 1912)
• Atlas d'histoire et de géographie (Alain Huot)
• Atlas histórico mundial
• Atlas historique (Guillaume Balavoine)
• Atlas historique de l'Antiquité tardive (Denis Bellemare)
• Cambridge Modern History Atlas (1912)
• Droysens Allgemeiner Historischer Handatlas (1886)
• Historical Atlas (William Shepherd, 1923-1926)
• Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century (Matthew White)
• Military History Atlases (United States Military Academy’s Department of History)
• Philips’ School Atlas of Classical Geography
• Philips’ Graphic School Atlas (1895)
• Public Schools Historical Atlas (C. Colbeck, 1905)
• Putzgers Historischer Schul-Atlas (1923)
• Tacitus Historical Atlas (Orjan Martinsson)
• Times Survey Atlas of the World (J. Bartholomew, 1920)
• The Atlas of Ancient and Classical Geography (Samuel Butler)
• WHKMLA Historical Atlas (Alexander Ganse)

REGIONAL MAPS: COLLECTIONS AND ATLASEs

• 16th-Early 20th Century Maps of Africa (Northwestern University Libraries)
• Africa Map Collection (University of Florida)
• African Historical Maps (University of Cape Town Libraries Digital Collections)
• L’Afrique en cartes (Gallica - Bibliothèque nationale de France)
• Historical Maps of Africa (University of Alabama)
• Historical Maps of Africa: The Cartographic Free Library (Afriterra)
• Maps of Africa (African Studies - Columbia University Libraries)
• Maps of Africa to 1900 (Digital Collections - Illinois University Library)
• Old Maps of Africa (oldmapsonline.org)
• Historical Maps of South America (New York Public Library)
• Historical Maps of South America (University of Alabama)
• Mapas históricos de America del Sur (Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay)
• Old Maps of South America (oldmapsonline.org)
• A Cartographic History of Caribbean History (caribmap.org)
• Caribbean Atlas (University of Caen, Normandie)
• Caribbean Map Collection (Digital Library of Caribbean)
• Caribbean Map Collection (University of Florida)
• Historical Maps of the Caribbean (University of Alabama)
• Asia Maps: Digital Collections (Pardee School of Global Studies - Center for the Study of Asia)
• Asia Maps Collection (University of Southern California)
• Historical Atlas: Reconnecting Asia (Center for Strategic and International Studies(
• Historical Maps of Asia (University of Alabama)
• Historical Maps of Asia (John C. Huntington)
• A Historical Atlas of South Asia (Joseph E. Schwartzberg, ed.)
• Historical Maps of South Asia (Columbia University)
• Maps for South Asian Studies (Yale University Library)
• Silk Road Maps (Digital Silk Road Project - Japan)
• Turkic World Maps