The West & Pacific Maps

This beautifully detailed pictorial map of San Francisco, created by artist Harrison Godwin in 1927, offers a unique and whimsical look at one of America’s most iconic cities. With carefully...

Dive into Wyoming’s storied horizons with this captivating Paint-Brush Map Poster, a tribute to the rugged beauty and pioneering spirit of the American West. Sweeping lines and vibrant colors bring...

Transport yourself to the golden era of California tourism with this vibrant and playful illustrated map of Santa Catalina Island. Featuring charming mid-century artwork, this map showcases the island’s major...

This beautifully detailed antique map of Wyoming captures the state’s rugged landscape, national parks, and early settlement divisions. Featuring precise county borders and detailed topographical elements, this map is a...

This pictorial map of Stanford University was drawn by Edward M. Farmer and published in 1934 under copyright of the university's Board of Trustees, in the tradition of the illustrated...

Eli Sheldon Glover drew and published this rare two-stone lithographed view of Santa Barbara, California, in 1877, printed in San Francisco by A.L. Bancroft & Co., during the same period...

Arthur Lites produced this early promotional pictorial bird's-eye view map of Stanford University in 1943, commissioned by the university's own board of trustees to promote the campus visually to prospective...

Augustus Koch drew this bird's-eye view of Sacramento in 1870, near the very start of a career that would eventually span 110 city views over three decades; this sheet came...

<p>This striking vintage map of Colorado captures the state in all its territorial glory, showcasing the Rocky Mountain ranges, early settlements, and the vast frontier landscape of the American West....

This 1922 map of Baja California, titled Mapa de Baja California, was issued in Chicago by Rand McNally & Company, the firm William Rand founded as a print shop in...

Eli Sheldon Glover, one of the great American viewmakers of the golden age of bird's-eye city views, produced this rare and magnificent panorama of Los Angeles in 1877, published by...

The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers produced this map of Santa Monica and San Pedro Bays in 1892, commissioned under the Rivers and Harbors Act of July of that...

The American Bank Note Company, a New York firm best known for engraving currency and securities, produced this excellent railroad map of Colorado in 1904, promoting the expanding lines of...

Pierce & Elliott drew this rare bird's-eye view of Portland, Oregon, in 1890, published by the Elliott Publishing Company in San Francisco, one of three Portland views the firm issued...

H.H. Lloyd issued this striking map of California and Nevada in 1871, a work that survives today largely because it appeared as a supplement bound into county and state atlases...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this first state of his County Map of California in 1860, the same year he inherited his father's Philadelphia publishing house and released the New...

Britton & Rey, the San Francisco lithographic house founded in 1852 by Joseph Britton and Jacques Joseph Rey, issued this rare third and final edition of George Henry Goddard's foundational...

Joseph Hutchins Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the nineteenth century, issued this map of California with its San Francisco inset in 1855 as part of his...

C. June Barton and R. Greenway Frager produced this whimsical pictorial map of Venice Beach, California, in 1979 to mark the neighborhood's 75th anniversary, running from its 1905 founding by...

Gerald A. Eddy, a Los Angeles-based commercial cartographer known for his relief maps and promotional work for western transportation companies, produced this map of the Pacific Electric Railway and Motor...

Charles W. Morse ran his cerographic printing house from New York, and in 1856 his General Atlas of the World, published through Appleton & Company, carried this map of California...

George F. Cram of Chicago published this map of the Territory turned State of Wyoming in 1891, a year after Wyoming achieved statehood, for his celebrated Unrivaled Atlas of the...

J. H. Colton & Co. of New York issued this map of the Territories of New Mexico and Utah in 1859, a cornerstone sheet regarded as the first separately published...

O. W. Gray of Philadelphia issued this map of Utah Territory in 1886 for Gray's National Atlas, one of the most commercially successful American atlases of the 1870s and 1880s...

Charles W. Morse of New York published this map of California, with a large inset of Utah and part of New Mexico, in his General Atlas of the World, issued...

Charles DeSilver of Philadelphia published this sweeping map of California and the territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah, and New Mexico in 1858, the same firm whose map plates and business...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. of Philadelphia published this map of Oregon, Washington, and the surrounding Rocky Mountain frontier in 1860, the same year he took over his father's atlas business...

Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co., the Philadelphia firm that grew out of the school-publishing trade before expanding into general cartography, issued this map of California and the territories of Oregon, Washington,...

George F. Cram, sole proprietor of the Evanston, Illinois atlas firm since 1869 and publisher of the long-running Unrivaled Atlas of the World, issued this map of Oregon from Chicago...

Whiteman, Hicks & Whiteman lithographed this map of New Mexico Territory in London around 1873, working not from an established atlas series but as an independently issued sheet tied to...

H.H. Lloyd published this county map of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico around 1872, distributed, like the firm's other territorial sheets, only as a supplement bound into Warner &...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. published this map of Arizona and New Mexico in Philadelphia in 1867, continuing the family publishing business his father had built since relocating to the city...

H.H. Lloyd's county map of Nevada and California appeared in the early 1870s within atlases published by Warner & Beers, part of the same Atlas of the United States series...

George F. Cram published this map of Nevada in Chicago in 1892, printed using the cerographic wax-engraving process the Morse family had invented back in the 1830s and which, by...

Rand McNally & Company issued this large-format map of Nevada in 1888 as part of its Business Atlas, four years before the firm's better-known 1892 edition of the same sheet....

Rand McNally & Company published this large-format map of Nevada in 1892 as part of its Business Atlas, one of the most widely circulated commercial reference atlases in the country...

H.H. Lloyd's map of Nevada and California, published in Chicago by Warner & Higgins in 1870, is the rare first edition of what would become part of Lloyd's Atlas of...

The General Land Office published this map of Montana Territory in 1887, drawing on the most current government surveys available at the time to record the territory's rapidly expanding grid...

This anonymously published county map of Montana and Wyoming, issued around 1874, is a genuinely scarce sheet, the first example of its particular plate seen in recent memory even among...

H.H. Lloyd issued this county map of Montana, Idaho and Wyoming on a distinctive horizontal format in 1872, the third and most fully updated state of a plate that had...

H.H. Lloyd & Co. issued this territorial map of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming around 1871-1872, published by Warner & Higgins in Chicago and printed by Frederick Bourquin in Philadelphia as...

Walter Ware De Lacy, a civil engineer and West Point graduate, produced this map of Montana Territory in 1865, commissioned by the territorial legislature at its very first meeting following...

The U.S. General Land Office published this map of the State of Idaho in 1891, the year after Idaho achieved statehood, compiling the territory's most current land surveys into a...

The United States Government Printing Office issued this map of Oahu in 1902, compiled from government surveys together with private survey work by John M. Donn, just four years after...

The Hawaiian Government Survey published this large-format map of Maui in 1885, based on primary triangulation work carried out by W.D. Alexander, the survey's founder, together with S.E. Bishop. Triangulation...

The Hawaiian Government Survey published this map of Oahu in 1881, one of the earliest maps of the island issued directly by the Hawaiian government itself rather than by a...

George F. Cram's company issued this large map of the Arizona Territory around 1909, three years before statehood, at a moment when the territory's railroad network, mining industry, and land...

C.J. Dyer sketched this bird's-eye view of Phoenix, Arizona Territory, in 1885, only four years after the town's incorporation, and the Schmidt Label & Litho Company of San Francisco printed...

Rand McNally & Company issued this map of the western United States in 1912, the same year Arizona became the forty-eighth state and the last of the contiguous states to...

August Chevalier, San Francisco's own lithographer-publisher, designed, engraved, and copyrighted this pictorial tourist map of the city in 1914, issuing it for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition the following year. Chevalier...