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Browse Our Digital Map Collection

Presented by the University of California Berkeley's (UCB) Earth Sciences and Map Library, the Browse Our Digital Map Collection Web site lets visitors do just that. Several thousand scanned maps from the collection are available and can be searched via the UCB Library Pathfinder program. After orientating oneself to the peculiarities of the search program, which seems more daunting than it...

https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/tour/
Historical Maps Online

Digitized map collections abound online these days, and the Historical Maps Online collection from the University of Illinois Library is one of the better ones available for researchers and the inquisitive public. Part of a collaborative effort between the University of Illinois Library and the University of Illinois Press, the online material includes hundreds of digitized maps, which may be...

https://digital.library.illinois.edu/collections/810d3fa0-e3...
NOAA Central Library: Historical Maps and Charts

The mission of the NOAA Library and Information Services is to ensure the delivery of scientific, technical, and legislative information to users, including NOAA staff, the general public, academia, industry, and other government agencies. The library's Historical Maps and Charts Web site contains over 20,000 maps and charts from the late 1700s to the present, some of the nation's earliest...

https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
Realms of Gold

As one of the oldest learned societies in North America, the American Philosophical Society (APS) is distinguished by its fine holdings, and as users will find out at this site, also by their fine collection of antiquarian and tremendously valuable maps. On this site, visitors will find the digital version of the APS's map holdings, originally created by Murphy D. Smith in 1991. Cartographers,...

https://www.amphilsoc.org/guides/rog/rog.htm