Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

Access to digitized copies of maps and atlases held by Massachusetts libraries, museums, historical societies, and archives.

Site includes geospatial data sets and georeferenced maps. Coverage includes international materials.

200,000 historical maps and 5000 atlases. Many are digitized and online at this site.

Collection of digitized maps, ranging from early maps of Asia to historical maps of Wisconsin and Milwaukee, and other American cities, states, and national parks.

Selection of digitized maps from the largest collection of cartographic works in the world.

One of the largest map collections in the world, with a chronological coverage of over 2000 years and a geographical coverage spanning the globe.

This historical map collection has over 68,000 maps and images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, and the World.

Digitized materials from libraries, archives and museums around the country.

Coverage includes maps and atlases for multiple continents, but the majority of the content focuses on the United States.

Scanned historic, topographic, geoscientific, bathymetric, and Sanborn fire insurance maps. Site also includes vector and raster data.

Includes maps of early settlements, territorial growth, military history and later history.

The collection includes 254 maps dating from the 15th to 19th centuries. It contains maps produced by prominent cartographers of that period, including Gastaldi, Linschoten, Bellin, Blaeu, Ortelius, Mercator, Hondius, Münster and de Bry, as well as several printed editions of Ptolemy maps, which include some of the earliest references to Singapore and the Malay Peninsula.

Mapping Inequality introduces viewers to the records of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation on a scale that is unprecedented. Here you can browse more than 150 interactive maps and thousands of “area descriptions.” These materials afford an extraordinary view of the contours of wealth and racial inequality in Depression-era American cities and insights into discriminatory policies and practices that so profoundly shaped cities that we feel their legacy to this day.

Digital collection of MA real estate atlases dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Atlases can be viewed/downloaded in PDF format or as individual images (Flikr).

A collection of 800+ maps that are intended to influence opinions or beliefs rather than communicate geographic information.