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Old‑school cartography designed to support teaching, learning, and simple curiosity about the past


THE MAP COLLECTIONS

(Click on a map to access the collection associated with it.)

(From M. L. W. Laistner, A Survey of Ancient History to the Death of Constantine, Boston, D.C. Heath & Co., 1929)


(From A. W. Ward et al., The Cambridge Modern History Atlas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1924)


(From James Westfall Thompson, Ancient History of the Middle Ages: 300-1500, New York, W.W. Norton, 1937)


(From George Adam Smith, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915)



(From Townsend Mac Coun, An Historical Geography of the United States, New York-Boston-Chicago, Silver, Burdett & Co., 1901)


(From Dixon Ryan Fox, Harper’s Atlas of American History, New York, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1920)


(From Lawrence J. Burpee, ed., An Historical Atlas of Canada, Toronto, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1927)


(From J. G. Bartholomew, Atlas for Canadian Schools: A New Series of Physical and Political Maps, London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1913)


(From Clifford Sifton, Concise School Atlas of the Dominion of Canada, Ottawa, Minister of Interior, 1900)


(From Emil Reich, A New Student Atlas of English History, London, Macmillan and co., 1903)


(From T. W. Higginson, E. Channing, English History for Americans, New York, Longmans, Green & Co., 1902)


(From Léon Mirot, Manuel de géographie historique de la France, Paris, Éditions A et J. Picard, 1947)


(From James Murdoch and Ysoh Yamagata, A History of Japan during the Century of Early Foreign Intercourse 1542-1651, Kobe, The Chronicle, 1903)


(From F. Brinkley and Baron Kikuchi, A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, New York-London, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1915)