Maps: Historic Maps

Free sites:

• TopoView Historical Topographic Map Collection from the USGS.  Includes large and small scale maps between 1884 and 2006 in GeoPDFs and GeoTIFF, JPEG and KMZ.
• American Memory Digital archive of material held at the Library of Congress.
• David Rumsey Map Collection Collection of more then 150,000 historic maps, global coverage.
• Old Maps Online Repository of historic maps from collections around the world.
• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection Online map collection covering the world, countries, states, cities, etc. from the University of Texas at Austin. Includes historic and modern maps. Includes color version of Sanborn Fire Insurance maps and its key to the colors and abbreviations.
• Portal to Texas History Includes over 80,000 maps, with 10% being 19th century or earlier.
• University of Houston Digital Library Includes 30 maps of Houston and Texas
• Links to more Historic Map Web Sites, organized by Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Subscription (Open only to Rice Affiliates):

• American West Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library
• China, America and the Pacific: Trade & Cultural Exchange
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps A Subscription database of the Sanborn Maps held in the collections of the Geography and Map Division at the Library of Congress. Over 6,000 of the sheets are available digitally. Free version, in color, at the University of Texas, Texas Sanborn maps
• Serial Set Maps, 1789-present Part of the subscription to ProQuest Congressional database