Featured Maps
Map of the Colony of New Zealand from Official Documents
1853
This was the best map of New Zealand at that time. First issued in the 1830s, this state shows the progress in the exploration and development of New Zealand, but still pre-dates the addition of New Zealand's counties.The three islands of New Zeala...
Louisiana: Nature's Cornucopia
1969
Scarce pictorial map of Louisiana, published by the "Art and Model Unit, Public Relations and Educatiopnal Section of the Louisiana Department of Highways". There were at least four maps in this series, all attributed to Carl V. Corley. The ma...
A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee
1935
Large dams, like the Grand Coulee, constituted an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These included the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. A concrete gravity dam, Grand Coulee took eight ye...
The Panama Canal
1925
“Mr Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird’s-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting Canal Zone scenes, is the result” (legend on the map).“One of O...
Authorized Map of the Second Byrd Expedition.
1924
“Past polar expeditions have been swallowed up by a silence which was never broken until they returned - if they did return. But on the Byrd Expedition there is being attempted the most notable feat in radio history - a two-way broadcast from an...
Map of the Popular Italian Costumes.
1934
"Not one single Italian tradition has been allowed to die out" (text on verso).A beautiful map with a serious purpose, published in the 12th year of the Fascist Era: “as a matter of absolute certainty, all the costumes here illus...
PWA Rebuilds the Nation.
1939
“Cartographic monument to the New Deal” (Hornsby)Nearly one hundred projects commissioned by the PWA are illustrated in and spread evenly over the map. The border, which includes more than forty vignettes depicting men at work and the monuments ...
Map of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia shewing the Architecture and History from the Most Ancient Times Down to the Present.
1926
Clark and Olsen collaborated on two other maps of Boston (their first map) and Philadelphia, which all hold much in common with Gill’s 'Wonderground Map of London'. Their map of Washington was to “be the most prestigious in the se...
Map of the University of California
1939
Beautifully designed map of the University of California, extending to the Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, La Jolla, Mt. Hamilton and Davis campuses.“This Map of the University of California sponsored by The California Club in comm...
You've Only Got to Choose Your Bus
1920
Created for the London General Omnibus Company, Gill's map, centred on Reigate, of the bus routes in the area between Epsom and Horley, north to south, and Godstone to Effingham, east to west, is illustrated in the same medieval modernist manner as...
