Featured Maps
Congo Belge
1949
Pictorial map of the Belgian Congo (today's Zaire), showcasing local exports, and highlighting the effects of colonization. In the upper left is a table with legends of the natural resources, locations in the colony and place of Catholic and Protesta...
Northwest Orient Airlines System Map
1947-1949
Pictorial route map for Northwest Orient Airlines, issued between 1947, when NWA began flying to Tokyo, Seoul, Manila, and Shanghai, and 1949 when they suspended flights to Shanghai (See Northwest Airlines History Center for similar route maps of the per...
Map Showing the Overland and Overseas Flights of Charles A. Lindbergh
1928
This is a pictorial celebrating Lindbergh's Transatlantic flight. It traces Lindbergh's flying career from his 1923 first solo flight at Americus, Georgia, to the delivery of his now world-renowned airplane The Spirit of St. Louis to the Smit...
East Africa Land of Sunshine (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika)
1949
Depicting modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda, the map extends from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to the Ruvuma River. The map features many of East Africa’s Great Game parks: the Seren...
Complete Map of Vermont Showing Highways and Natural Features
1902
This is a striking, large and colorful antique case map of Vermont, published right at the turn of the twentieth century in 1902.As noted in the title, the map presents the state with abundant detail regarding its highways, natural features, cities, v...
Fun Map of New Zealand
1940
Issued by the New Zealand Government Tourist Bureau and printed by E.V. Paul after designs by Charles Haines, the first advertising agency in New Zealand, founded by Haines in 1891. While the promotional material on the verso of the map is designed to...
"Hysterical Map of Yellowstone ...."
1948
The “Famous Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park including a few minor? Changes”, was first published in 1936. "Hatched & Scratched by Jolly Lindgren", it includes most of the humor of the previous iterations, and includes...
Carta Esferica le las Costas y Golfo de California....hasta el Puerto de S. Diego
1825
Rare large scale map of Baja California, prepared for the Mexican Government shortly after its Independence from Spain.The map is dedicated to Guadalupe Victoria, the first president of the Mexican Republic. In addition to all of Baja California, the...
Map of San Diego's Oil Field
1920
The only known example of this map showing supposed oil drilling operations in the La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Clairemont, and Bay Park neighborhoods of San Diego, published for M. Hall Investment Co. in 1920.The map's purpose is embodied in a tag lin...
A Hysterical Map of Yellowstone Park and the Jackson Hole Country. Slightly Cockeyed.
c1936
First issue, subsequently printed as a King Size mapcard in the 1950s. The Lindgren’s humorous pictorial map "Drawn in Broken English by Jolly Lindgren" features highlights of the area of the Jackson Hole country and Yellowstone National Pa...