David Rumsey Map Collection

Maps Up Close are interesting details from maps that show unusual features, cartographic conventions, history, graphics, and places. We hope that by focusing on these details, users will discover new ways of seeing and understanding the art of cartography. Click on any of the images below and a new page will open with a live image of the map up close, one that you can pan and zoom, and thus see how the initial zoomed in view fits into the larger map. Clicking on the page map title will return to the initial view.

Landscape of Southern Italy 1808 Mississippi River 1858 Railroad Mapping in 1871 Pardies Constellations 1693 Map Poetry on the Texas Plains 1816 Panorama of the Seat of War 1862 Pico de Orizaba 1807 Movements of the Sun 1850 Eagle Eye 1833 Niagara Falls 1823 Map of British and French Dominions 1757 Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1893 Proposed 11 Territories 1778 South America 1799 France 1750