Featured Maps
The Greyhound Map of This Amazing America. Natural and Man-Made Wonders...
1941
One in a series of pictorial maps done by Greyhound to advertise and promote travel by bus. Wartime events would soon put severe limits to recreational travel. In addition to the colorful vignettes, the text on the verso is a numbered index of 117 d...
Balgownie Golf Links. New Zealand
1909
“Nothing is more profitable than judicious investment in Real Estate”Public auction announcement for the sale of subdivided lots in the Balgownie Golf Links, Waganui, in the southwest of the North Island of New Zealand. The lots are offered on &...
America for the Foot-Loose: An Indispensable guide for Married Couples Contemplating Seperate (sic) Vacations
c1952
Apparently unpublished, but possibly intended for publication in Esquire Magazine. There are many humorous little details… from “Farm house (ask for daughter)” to the red lights on Havana, Tijuana, Mexicali and Cuidad Juarez and on a...
Your Shell Map of 1960 Winter Olympic Games. Squaw Valley California
1960
Commissioned by Shell Oil to promote their sponsorship of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. The map shows not only the games’s site, but the surrounding area as far east as Virginia City (and including Lake Tahoe) and as far west as Grass Valley. ...
Mapa de Ruta. Pan American Grace Airways Inc.
1934
“Ahora Si, El Mundo es Chico” (Yes, now the World is smaller)A rare Spanish language route map and guidebook published by Pan American & Grace Airways Inc. The front cover is illustrated with a portrait of a DC-2, while inside is a sm...
Edo
c1840
A beautiful woodblock map of Tokyo from the golden age of Japanese woodblock map printing. Combining the elements of traditional Japanese map-making: rice paper, woodblock printing, delicate application of colour, the inclusion of topographical views in...
Trans-Mar de Cortes Route map
after 1949
“Fly in luxurious DC3 following the routes opened by the Missionaries three Centuries ago” through Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahu; from Tijuana to La Paz, as far east as El pas, Juarez and Chihuahua. Decorated with vignettes of landmark...
Danny Arnold's Pictorial Map of The Old West
1962
Published to coincide with, and cash in on the success of, the 1962 Cinerama film 'How the West Was Won'. The film hosted an all-star cast: Carroll Baker, Henry Fonda, Karl Malden, Gregory Peck, George Peppard, Debbie Reynolds, Jimmie Stewart, Eli...
SABENA Africa Route Map
1950
Dramatic and stylish map showing the routes of Sabena Airlines throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.SABENA: Societé Anonyme Belge d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aérienne - Belgian Corporation for Air Navigation Services – was the na...
Complete Map of the Airlines of K.N.I.L.M
c1935
Featuring a Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra, or “Lockheed 14”, the flagship of the KNILM passenger fleet, soaring over the East India archipelago and parts of Southeast Asia, formerly the Dutch East Indies, and now modern Indonesia. The rou...
