Please note that these sites are not maintained by the Newberry Libray.
General Information
The Map History / History of Cartography site indexes valuable internet sources on map collections, conferences and meetings, exhibitions, fellowships, prizes and awards, journals and periodicals, map collecting, and map interest societies.
Visit John W. Docktor's exhaustive calendar of cartographic events, of interest to historians and map-lovers.
Odden's Bookmarks is the premier site for links to sites dealing with the history of cartography.
The History of Cartography Project is housed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is concerned with scholarship and publications for the history of cartography. Find out more about the project and how to order books from the series.
Extensive On-line Image Collections
The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, one of the largest private collections of historic maps in the United States, is comprised of over 150,000 maps from the 17th to the 20th centuries, primarily of North and South America, and includes globes, atlases, separate maps, geographies, map ephemera, and more. The Collection has over 11,000 maps online. The collection is searchable by several criteria, and each image can be enlarged on-screen.
The Library of Congress American Memory site includes thousands of images of historic documents from American History, including an extensive offering of map images.
Web Exhibitions (a selection)
The British Library Map Library often posts interesting exhibits on its website.
Celebrating the Portuguese Communities in America: A Cartographic Perspective. This exhibition, prepared by the Library of Congress, explores the role of the Portuguese in mapping the Americas and in creating the United States. In particular, it commemorates the many Portuguese communities established in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Jerusalem 3000: Three Millenia of History is an online exhibit mounted by the Osher Map Library. This exhibition examines Jerusalem’s unique position among cities of the world, which derives from its crucial role in religious history as a holy city for three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It presents a selection of maps and views – from imaginary and idealized portrayals based on Scriptural interpretation to objective depictions derived from historical records or eyewitness, to combinations of reality and fantasy – which provide a broad perspective on three millennia of Jerusalem’s eventful history.
Publications
Cartographica is a journal that delivers in-depth research and writings covering a wide range of cartographic studies including the production, design, use and cognitive understanding of maps, the history of maps and Geographical Information Systems. This site gives a listing of the contents of current and back issues of the journal, as well as subscription information.
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