Featured Maps
Map of City & County of San Diego
1914
Published by the Weber Company, this is a detailed map of the City on a sheet with the County and Riverside County. Balboa Park is noted as “Exposition Grounds”. North to Pacific Beach and south to Division Street. Most place names are fami...
Anchorage & Cook Inlet, Alaska
1983
Published for the ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC (Vol 10, Number 2), this colorful map covers from Anchorage to Seward and NE to Mt McKinley (Denali name not yet present).This is one of the better examples of this genre. Susan Schumacher (for which we can fi...
Weekend Vacation Guide in the Western Southland
c1957
A lovely pictographic map of the US Southwest created by James Lewicki for the the Ford Motor Company and included in an edition of 'Ford Times. A Car Owners Magazine'. Lewicki's style, while unique, is closer to that of Ru...
Untitled Map of the World.
c1960
A whimsical, double hemisphere world route-map with illustrations of early forms of aviation and sea travel, was created for TAI (Transports Aeriens Intercontinetaux). The good-natured feeling can be summed up by the small notice in the bottom right ...
The World Centrifuged
August, 1941
By 1940, Americans had become so used to seeing the world mapped on the Mercator projection that any other method met with resistance, both in classrooms and living rooms. But as aviation displaced sea navigation in the twentieth century, Americans we...
TWA - the Gentleman's Airline - World Route Map
1948
TWA was formed in 1930, when Transcontinental Air Transport merged with Western Air Express. By 1939 the new airline was owned by the legendary Howard Hughes, under whose stewardship it gained a reputation as the gentleman’s airline. The Royal Am...
A souvenir of the legendary Hotel Hana Ranch
after 1946
White's map of the Island of Maui appears on the inside of a folding souvenir for the ‘Hotel Hana Ranch. Hana Maui, Territory of Hawaii’.White’s first ‘cartograph’ of the Island of Maui was published in colour i...
East Africa. Land of Sunshine
1949
This lively map of East Africa, includes modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda. Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyika to the Indian Ocean and from the Sudan/Ethiopia border to...
Louisiana: Nature's Cornucopia
1969
This educational map of Louisiana shows the crops and flowers of the State, as well as a list of 20 "Plantation Homes Open to the Public". Along the left margin are "Floral Bouquets for Every Month of the Year". It is on...
