Southern States Maps

Nicolas de Fer, who took over his father's Paris map-selling business as a young man and built it into one of France's most prolific cartographic workshops, issued this map of...

Adam and Charles Black of Edinburgh published this map of Texas and part of New Mexico in 1876, part of the firm's General Atlas, one of the leading atlas and...

S. S. Cornell published this paired map of California and Texas in 1856, an interesting single-sheet combination joining the country's two fastest-growing frontier states, with Oregon included as a smaller...

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...

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,...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., who inherited his father's Philadelphia map-publishing firm in 1860 and ran it through the 1890s, issued this double-sided sheet pairing Indian Territory with Colorado on its...

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...

John Speed's map of Virginia and Maryland was engraved by Francis Lamb and first appeared in the 1676 enlarged edition of Speed's atlas, published in London by Thomas Bassett and...

Johann Baptist Homann's Nuremberg workshop issued this later state of its map of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina around 1730, identifiable by the addition of "Cum Privilegio Sac. Caes. Majest." to...

Emanuel Bowen produced this detailed map of Virginia and Maryland for his Complete System of Geography, this example identifiable as the first state of the plate by the number "No....

Johann Baptist Homann of Nuremberg published this map of Virginia, Maryland and Carolina around 1720, one of the best-known separately issued sheets from the publishing house he had founded in...

Homann Heirs of Nuremberg published this map of eastern Virginia, Maryland, and all of Delaware in 1745, one of four regional maps of North America the firm issued together on...

This map of Virginia and Maryland was engraved by Francis Lamb and first published in 1676, in the enlarged edition of John Speed's atlas issued in London by Thomas Bassett...

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...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr. published this double-sided sheet in Philadelphia in 1880, pairing a detailed map of Colorado with a map of Indian Territory printed on the reverse, a practical...

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...

This map of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware was produced by Henry S. Tanner and published in 1828 in his New Pocket Atlas of the United States with the Roads and...

This map of Texas and part of New Mexico was drawn and engraved by John Bartholomew and published in 1856 by Adam and Charles Black of Edinburgh in Black's Atlas...

Anthony Finley published this joint map of the State of Missouri and the Territory of Arkansas in 1826 for his New American Atlas, drawn by D. H. Vance and engraved...

This map of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee was drawn by G.W. Colton with text by Richard Swainson Fisher and published in 1858 in Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas and Descriptive...

This map of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina was drawn by G.W. Colton with text by Richard Swainson Fisher and published in 1858 in Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas...

This map of Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and the Indian Territory was produced by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. and published in 1865 by E.H. Butler & Co. for Mitchell's New...

This map of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina was produced by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. and published in 1865 by E.H. Butler & Co., part of the Philadelphia-printed...

This map of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri was produced by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. and published in 1865 by E.H. Butler & Co.; spanning six states on...

Henry Darwin Rogers and Alexander Keith Johnston issued this Territory of Kansas and Indian Territory sheet in 1857, published in London by Edward Stanford and engraved by W. & A.K....

Henry Darwin Rogers and Alexander Keith Johnston issued this States of Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas sheet in 1857, published in London by Edward Stanford and engraved by W. & A.K....

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia sheet in 1884, part of his New General Atlas...

This four-state sheet comes from Asher & Adams' New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of the United States, published in New York in 1874, one of the first...

This is the New Rail Road and County Map of Deleware (Delaware), Maryland, Virginia & West Virginia, a map from Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, copyrighted 1883 by...

Few American mapmakers of the 1890s could match George Cram's output, and this four-state sheet, covering Virginia, West Virginia, and portions of Maryland and Delaware, is a good example of...

Immerse yourself in the intricate urban textures of Alexandria, Virginia, and Columbia, Maryland, through this beautifully detailed 1890s map. As a window into the bustling life of these historic cities,...