Featured Maps
"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...
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...
“The Palm of God’s Hand” - A Map of the Coachella Valley
1950
An attractive and privately published map of the Coachella Valley, known as “The Palm of God’s Hand”, and in Spanish as “La Palma de la Mano de Dios”. D’Ambly was a resident artist of Indio, California, specializing in...
London Underground Advertising Poster - "In the Heat of the Summer you will find me cool.."
1922
Set against a black background is a central pictorial map, similar in decorative style and comic content to Gill's original "Wonderground" map of 1914, which shows central London from Docklands & Whitechapel in the East to Barnes Br...
Visit Saratoga Springs . King of Resorts. Queen of Spas
c1941-49
A charming small pictorial touting the many attractions of Saratoga Springs. On the map, about 40 ‘Points of Interest” are noted, most with a cartoon-ish vignette shown. Thre is a guide at the bottom of the map. 14 x 16 i...
Historic and Scenic Reaches of the Nation's Capital
1838
A fine colour printed map of the northeast of the United States. Published for 'The National Geographic Magazine', and showing D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, southern New Jersey, southern Pennsylvania, with their counties, state capitals, ci...
British Commonwealth of Nations
October 1945-April 1946
Rare separately issued pictorial map of the world, published at the end of World War II by the British Information Services, but issued from their office at 30 Rockefeller Center, New York City. The British Information Services (BIS) was the New York...
“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 Ne...
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's ho...