Getting Started
Carto-Bibliographies of City Maps from the Borchert Map Library
Listing of pre-1950 maps (both sheet maps and atlas plates); most are part of the Borchert Map Library collection; most are linked to catalog record in library catalog; some items are linked to online versions
PLEASE NOTE: For Minneapolis and Saint Paul please go to our Selected Historic Minnesota Collections page
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND CITY MAPS
World City Maps and Plans
While this list is not exhaustive, its goal is to highlight online collections of city maps that we have come across while answering questions for our patrons.
Online Maps
HISTORIC CITY MAPS FROM THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Maps dated between 1486 and 1800 for cities around the world -- mostly from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum
CITY MAPS ONLINE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Maps of Chicago back to the 1860s, maps of Paris in the 1800s, Late 19th- and early 20th-century maps of Asian and Latin American cities and more
ARMY MAP SERVICE CITY PLANS FROM THE PERRY-CASTAÑEDA LIBRARY MAP COLLECTION
Many cities available JPG format, published between the 1940s and 1960s -- also check out the Google Earth index (scroll to the bottom of the page to download the kml file) to see all the maps available from this set
WORLD CITY MAPS FROM THE PERRY-CASTAÑEDA LIBRARY MAP COLLECTION
Maps produced by U.S. Government agencies between 1977 and 1999
LIST OF CITY MAP SITES FROM THE PERRY-CASTAÑEDA LIBRARY MAP COLLECTION
List of links to city maps from around the world