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 o...
Sketch Map of the Proposed Development Mission Bay Recreational Area, San Diego
April 1945
The earliest published official depiction of the planned post-war development of the Mission Bay Recreational Area. The vision is Glenn C. Rick's, the City’s Planning Director, who had submitted the first suggested plan of development in 1935....
Vermont: Some History & Other Pastimes
1949
Published by local advertising and commercial design firm, Daly and Hamilton, the map covers all of Vermont with limited geographic detail but rich pictorial imagery. The numerous vignettes illustrate both historical elements, such as Calvin Coolidge...
“A graphic representation of the Queen City of the South for the use of Tourists and Visitors” (front cover).
c1909
This “Map of Sydney”, “Showing principal Streets, Parks, Public Buildings, Tramways, &c., [was] published for sale at the Government Tourist Bureau,... and all Stationers”, and available from about 1909. The wharves between Mi...
Wonders of New York
1953
Hansell’s ‘Wonders of New York’ captures the City at a major transition in the its life. “In 1958, more people crossed the Atlantic by airplane than by ship. Within a decade, the great ocean liners shown on the map were gone and...
Central Map of Tehran
1961
A comprehensive plan of central Tehran, the Key identifies the locations of all the Government Ministries, embassies and legations, travel agencies, hotels, museums, bookshops, banks, libraries, “Important Trading Houses”, “Commercial Counsell...
A Chart of Manhattan
1936
Annand “designed some of the most elegant and accessible pictorial maps of the period” (Hornsby).Extending to include the area from Battery Park and New York Harbour to the Bronx; and from New Jersey to Brooklyn and Queens. Originally publi...
Sportsman's Map of Orego
1965
Published for the Blitz-Weinhard Brewing Co. of Portland, OR. The text welcomes both the “Sportsman” and the “Sport”. “Come on over to Oregon and Relax in a State of excitement”.Selander was a noted modernist waterc...
Ragbrai XIV
1986
Number 78 of 500 numbered copies signed by Blattel-Britton. Created to coincide with the XIVth annual RAGBRAI [Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa], 400 mile bicycle touring race from Mineola to Muscatine: the largest Bike-touring ev...
A Pictorial Map South Africa
1950
This charming souvenir map was created by Bernard Sargent for the South African Tourist Corporation. The map shows the major roads and the sites that can be seen along those roads, representing "diverse places and extraordinary manner of strange ...
