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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...

Step into the skyline of 1885 Chicago, an urban tapestry woven from entrepreneurial dreams, bustling factories, and the reverberations of the Great Fire’s aftermath. This meticulously restored map details the...

This map of the United States was printed in 1962 in Warsaw as part of the first edition of Atlas Swiata, the Polish World Atlas compiled by Teodor Naumienko and...

Ruth Taylor White drew this pictorial map of Illinois for Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography, a whimsical cartoon atlas published by Little, Brown, and Company in 1935 with text by...

This detailed street map shows Chicago in 1875, four years after the Great Fire, when the rebuilt city was pushing its grid out across the prairie. An ornate scrollwork border...

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...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this Illinois sheet in 1884, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886. This printing...

This map of Chicago comes from Gray's Atlas and is dated 1873, as the bold title panel in the upper left corner declares. It is drawn at a scale of...

Asher & Adams, working out of New York, issued this Illinois sheet in 1874 as part of their New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of the United States,...

George Franklin Cram, working from his own Chicago offices at the Western Map Depot, published this Rail Road and Township Map of Illinois in 1878 as part of his Standard...

Illinois has a special claim on this atlas: Chicago, the state's largest city, was the host of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition that the entire volume was produced to commemorate....

This Illinois map comes from Cram's Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, copyrighted 1883 by George Franklin Cram and published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey and Co., a first edition...

This map of the United States comes from the Pergamon World Atlas, published in 1967 by Pergamon Press in collaboration with the Polish Army Topography Service and printed at the...

This Illinois sheet is part of Thomas G. Bradford's 1838 An Illustrated Atlas, published by Weeks, Jordan & Co. and Wiley and Putnam, printed twenty years after Illinois joined the...

This map of Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri was drawn by G.W. Colton with text by Richard Swainson Fisher and published in 1858 in Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas and Descriptive Geography,...

Step back in time to the lawless streets of Prohibition-era Chicago with this meticulously detailed Chicago Gangland Crime Map Print. This vintage-style illustration provides a fascinating look at the organized...

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...

Step into the past with this beautifully illustrated 1932 map of the University of Chicago, showcasing the iconic architecture, historic buildings, and academic landmarks of one of America’s most prestigious...

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...

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...

This geological map of the United States was compiled in 1874 by Charles H. Hitchcock and William P. Blake for the U.S. Census Office and lithographed by Julius Bien in...

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 S. Tanner, working out of Philadelphia, issued this Illinois sheet in 1841, included in the 1842 edition of his New Universal Atlas, the last he personally published after three...

This statistical map showing the increase and decrease of United States population between 1880 and 1890 was published by Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, appearing in the firm's 1897...

Sidney Morse and Samuel Breese, working in New York, published this map of Illinois in 1845 as part of Morse's North American Atlas, issued by Harper & Brothers across nine...

This map of the United States was issued in 1872 by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and published in London by Edward Stanford as part of The...

This railroad map of the United States was published in 1890 by John Y. Huber & Co. of Philadelphia and St. Louis as part of Mitchell's New General Atlas, a...

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....

This geological map of the United States was compiled by Charles H. Hitchcock, professor of geology at Dartmouth College, and published in 1873 by Stedman, Brown & Lyon of Philadelphia...

Tämän Ruotsin ja Norjan värikartan julkaisi chicagolainen George F. Cram and Company vuonna 1893 teosta Columbian World's Fair Atlas varten. Atlas julkaistiin vuoden 1893 Chicagon maailmannäyttelyn ja Columbian näyttelyn muistoksi,...

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company commissioned this promotional route map in 1888 from Rand, McNally & Co. of Chicago, the era's dominant railroad-map engraving house, to accompany...

William Henry Rand and Andrew McNally's Chicago firm mapped the city of Montreal for their Indexed Atlas of the World, this particular printing dated 1898, following the two-volume 1897 edition...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped the city of Montreal for their 1897 Indexed Atlas of the World, a two-volume reference the firm regarded as the high-water mark of...

George F. Cram, the Chicago mapmaker and Civil War veteran who had served under General William Tecumseh Sherman before building one of America's leading atlas publishing houses, produced this street...

George Franklin Cram, working from his Western Map Depot in Chicago, published this Railroad Map of the United States and Territories in 1878 as the thirty-ninth and final plate in...

The Chicago map-maker George F. Cram prepared this map of Ontario for the Columbian World's Fair Atlas, published in 1893 for the Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York,...

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...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped the whole of British America for their 1897 Indexed Atlas of the World, a two-volume reference the firm itself considered the high-water mark...

The Sabiston Litho. & Pubg. Co. produced this map of Montreal in 1893 for a distinctly single-purpose audience: delegates travelling to the city for the Twelfth International Christian Endeavor Convention,...

George F. Cram of Chicago prepared this map of Quebec for the Columbian World's Fair Atlas, published in 1893 for the Wood Brothers Cash Store of Unadilla, New York, as...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped the southern portions of what would become Alberta and Saskatchewan, together with the district of Assiniboia and a slice of Manitoba, for their...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped British Columbia for their 1897 Indexed Atlas of the World, a two-volume reference issued at what the firm itself regarded as the high-water...

Rand McNally & Company published this highly detailed map of Louisiana from Chicago in 1889, by which point the firm, founded in 1856 as a Chicago print shop for railway...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped the province of Quebec for their 1897 Indexed Atlas of the World, a two-volume reference the firm regarded as the high-water mark of...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago mapped the province of Ontario for their 1897 Indexed Atlas of the World, a two-volume reference the firm regarded as the high-water mark of...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago issued this map of the eastern part of the Province of Ontario for the fourth edition of their Business Atlas, dated 1878-9 on its...

Geo. F. Cram mapped Indianapolis for the 1899 edition of his Standard American Railway System Atlas of the World, the same New York- and Chicago-published volume that carried his companion...

Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago produced this combined map of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island for the fourth edition of their Business Atlas, dated 1878-9, a...

This map of Oregon was engraved and published by Rand McNally & Co. of Chicago in 1889 for their Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide, by then in its eighteenth edition...

This continental map of North America was drawn by D. MacDonald and published in 1881 by H. Belden & Co. of Toronto as part of the Illustrated Atlas of the...