Midwest & Great Lakes Maps

Pieter van der Aa, the prolific Leiden publisher known equally for pirated bestsellers and his own vast catalogue of maps and atlases, engraved this map of Canada and the Great...

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin prepared this map of the Great Lakes in 1744 to accompany Pierre-Francois-Xavier de Charlevoix's Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France, the account the Jesuit scholar compiled...

Nicolas Sanson, the Abbeville-born cartographer credited with shifting the center of European mapmaking from Amsterdam to Paris and tutoring King Louis XIII himself in geography, first issued this map of...

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, chief hydrographer to the French Navy in Paris, engraved this large-format map of the Great Lakes in 1745, expanding on the smaller version he had produced just a...

Pierre Du Val, nephew and pupil of the great Nicolas Sanson and himself Geographe Ordinaire du Roi from 1650, engraved this map of Canada and the Great Lakes region for...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this county map of Michigan and Wisconsin in 1860, the first state of the plate and part of the New General Atlas he...

Henry Schenck Tanner of Philadelphia issued this map of Kentucky, Tennessee, and part of Illinois in 1823 for his monumental American Atlas, a work without question regarded as the finest...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia issued this rare variant map of Oregon, Washington, and the newly formed Idaho Territory in 1863, part of the same New General Atlas he...

Adam and Charles Black, the Edinburgh firm that ranked among 19th-century Britain's leading publishers of atlases and travel guides, issued this map of the Pacific States in 1869, covering California,...

This map of Ohio was issued in Philadelphia in 1814, most likely as part of the American Atlas series published by Mathew Carey, the Dublin-born publisher whose Philadelphia firm produced...

Charles Morse issued this map of Ohio in 1856 as part of his General Atlas of the World, a work built largely on updated plates from the earlier Morse &...

Alvin Jewett Johnson and his partner Benjamin P. Ward published this map of Nebraska, Dakota, Montana, and Kansas in New York in 1864, part of the Johnson's New Illustrated Family...

Charles Desilver published this map of the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains in Philadelphia in 1857, a sheet remarkable for being the first atlas map published...

Alvin Jewett Johnson published this map of Nebraska, Dakota, Idaho and Montana in New York in 1865, notable above all for containing one of the very earliest appearances of Wyoming...

Henry Schenck Tanner issued this map of Missouri in Philadelphia within the 1836 edition of his New Universal Atlas, conceived as a more compact and accessible successor to his monumental...

Henry Schenck Tanner engraved this map of Missouri in 1839 for his New Universal Atlas, a more compact and accessible successor to his earlier monumental New American Atlas that had...

Berlandi & Bott published this map of Minnesota in St. Paul in 1884 on behalf of the state's own Board of Immigration, a government body created specifically to promote settlement...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this county map of Michigan and Wisconsin in Philadelphia in 1867, continuing the family publishing firm his father had built into one of America's most...

This detailed map of Wisconsin and large portions of Michigan was issued around 1850 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, an English organization active from the 1830s...

Thomas Gamaliel Bradford issued this map of Michigan in 1838, engraved by G.W. Boynton for his An Illustrated Atlas, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the United States and the Adjacent...

Henry Schenck Tanner engraved this map of Michigan in 1836, issuing it as plate 25 in the first bound edition of his celebrated New Universal Atlas, one of the defining...

Joseph Meyer published this finely engraved map of Michigan in 1845 from his firm's headquarters in Hildburghausen, basing its geography on the American surveys of Henry Schenck Tanner from earlier...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this update of his Kansas-Nebraska-Colorado sheet from Philadelphia in 1863, revising the map his firm had published only the year before to record the creation...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this map of the central plains and Rockies in Philadelphia in 1862, part of the New General Atlas his firm had issued since 1860 to...

L.H. Everts and Company of Philadelphia issued this county map of the central plains in 1875 as part of the illustrated county atlases the firm was producing throughout the decade,...

Charles Desilver of Philadelphia issued this map of the trans-Mississippi interior in 1859, updating a map first cut in 1855 and periodically reissued through the decade — the present sheet...

H.H. Lloyd published this double-page map of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Indian Territory in Chicago around 1870, centering the sheet on the Rocky Mountains at a moment...

Anthony Finley published this map of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, together with part of Michigan Territory, in Philadelphia in 1825, at a moment when the American Midwest was still visibly...

J.H. Colton published this separately issued map of Kansas and Nebraska in 1855 from his New York offices, releasing it as the first printed map to show the two territories...

Henry T. Williams published this large-format map of the American West in 1876, tracing the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad west from Omaha along with a web of connecting lines feeding...

Charles Morse published this scarce pre-Civil War map of Iowa in New York in 1856, part of his General Atlas of the World and a genuinely original production rather than...

Thomas Gamaliel Bradford published this map of Indiana in Boston in 1841, part of an early edition of his atlas that departed from other commercial atlases of the period by...

Anthony Finley published this map of Indiana in Philadelphia in 1831, part of his General Atlas and among the finest state maps produced during his decade as the leading American...

Jeremiah Greenleaf published this striking full-color map of Illinois in Brattleboro, Vermont in 1842, part of his New Universal Atlas first issued that same year. Greenleaf built his career as...

Charles Desilver of Philadelphia issued this map of the American West shortly after the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, incorporating it into S. Augustus Mitchell's renowned New Universal Atlas after Desilver...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this plan of Chicago in 1874 as plate 35 of Mitchell's New General Atlas, engraved by W.H. Gamble alongside contributions from the U.S. Coast Survey...

The George F. Cram Company issued this plan of Detroit in 1925 on page 307 of Cram's Unrivaled Atlas of the World, part of the same 182-map, 403-page reference that...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this plan of Detroit in 1877 as plate 41 of Mitchell's New General Atlas, engraved by W.H. Gamble for the Philadelphia firm's eighty-three-map edition, which...

The George F. Cram Company, established in Chicago in 1867, issued this plan of Minneapolis in 1925 on page 316 of Cram's Unrivaled Atlas of the World, a 403-page reference...

This map of St. Louis was copyrighted in 1887 by Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. and issued in this 1890 impression as part of Mitchell's New General Atlas, published by...

This map pairing St. Louis and Chicago was engraved by G.W. Colton and published in 1865 by J.H. Colton of New York, appearing in Colton's General Atlas during a brief...

H.F. Walling, Ormando Willis Gray, and H.H. Lloyd jointly prepared this map of Cleveland for Stedman, Brown & Lyon's 1872 New Topographical Atlas of the State of Ohio, a Cincinnati-published...

Arthur B. Suchy designed this pictorial map of Cleveland and Ohio City in 1936 and it was issued as a standalone commemorative sheet in 1945, published as a special anniversary...

This map of Dayton was drawn by J.S. Binkerd under Henry Francis Walling's direction and published in New York in 1868 by H.H. Lloyd & Co. for Henry S. Stebbins,...

This map of Cincinnati was drawn by R.C. Phillips, C.E., and published in 1868 by H.H. Lloyd & Co. of New York for Henry S. Stebbins, appearing in the first...

This map of Dayton was engraved for Ormando Willis Gray and H.F. Walling's New Topographical Atlas of the State of Ohio, published in Cincinnati by Stedman, Brown & Lyon in...

This plan of Des Moines was drawn for Alfred Theodore Andreas's Chicago-based publishing house and issued in 1875 as part of his Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa,...

S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this plan of Milwaukee in 1874 as part of his New General Atlas, a Philadelphia-published volume notable for introducing the atlas's first large-format Kansas and...

The George F. Cram Company produced this map of Milwaukee for its 1925 Unrivaled Atlas of the World, the Chicago firm's flagship postwar publication, revised to carry the new international...

This map of Cincinnati was surveyed and drawn in 1872 by Ormando Willis Gray together with H.F. Walling and H.H. Lloyd, and published the same year by Stedman, Brown &...