Featured Maps
La Jolla "The Jewel"
1968
A delightful and quite scarce pictorial of the Village and vicinity in 1968. Covers as far south as Bird Rock and North to the Torrey Pines Golf Course which is noted as “Golfer’s Paradise”. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the esta...
New Haven
1928
Carina Eaglesfield Mortimer Milligan (1890-1978) was an American architect, who joined Anne Morgan (1873-1952)’s Comite Americain de Secour Civil / CASC, during WWII, after the death of her first husband. Unlike most young architects, Eaglesfi...
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...
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...
"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...
"Meddo" Sea Chart-Marshall Islands
c1920
This ‘Meddo’ sea chart from the Marshall Islands, where navigation was, and still is, an essential survival skill, was a closely guarded secret and only passed on within a small number of families. In order to memorise the main navigational...
Didactic Manuscript Map of Africa
c1813
An exceptional manuscript composition most likely done in, or for, a German school classroom. The central map of Africa is surrounded by finely detailed vignettes including a coastal view of the mountains from the south-east coast, exotic natural history ...
Kyoto - the Heart of Japan
c1785
A Tenmei era, colour-printed woodblock map of Kyoto, Japan, oriented with north to the left, created during the reign of Emperor Kokaku, who came to power during a great famine, but whose reign (1780-1817) is generally thought to have been peaceful. He is th...
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...
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 p...
