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Atlases & Cartographic Resources @ Tutt Library
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Cartography Resources Online
Artstor's images include historic maps. Limit to "Geography" in the browse classification and then type in "map"
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Part of the Insight Collection, spectacular, large-scale images of historic maps
Consortium of libraries to preserve printed works digitally. Limitable to "maps."
Maps of the Pimeria: Early Cartography of the Southwest
This website illustrates and describes a selection of original rare and historic maps chosen from the Map Collection of the University of Arizona Library. They portray a region of New Spain once called Pimería and chronicle four centuries of mapping from the earliest map of the region in the collection, a 1556 view of North and South America, up to the Gadsden Purchase of 1854 when Pimería Alta--or southern Arizona--was acquired by the United States from Mexico.
Old Maps Online
The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world. It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.
World Wide Web Virtual Maps
One of the oldest (and perhaps the most amateurishly laid out!) collections of virtual maps. Still an excellent source.
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