Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his ...

Robert Berlo on one of his many road trips. Maps from Robert Berlo’s collection, donated after his death to the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford University. A detail from ...

A map collection used by British monarch King George III has been made available to the public. The collection includes maps from famous events like Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and the American War ...

The maps cover the period between 1680 and 1930 and, in addition to the cartographic drawings, contain information about the history of the site. Each map has been georeferenced, so it is possible to ...

Photographs of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice Jr., class of 1898, are pretty much exactly what you’d expect. A sepia tint of Rice in an unnamed exotic locale portrays the quintessential ...

Stanford, Calif. — The new David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University feels like a secret clubhouse for map lovers. To get there, you pass through a nondescript door in the library and climb two ...

History and geography lovers rejoice! You can now see and even download incredible maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection database. The website contains more than ...

The discovery that real estate agent Matthew Greenberg made when he stepped inside a Mount Washington cottage will put the Los Angeles Public Library on the map. Stashed everywhere in the ...

Robert Berlo got hooked on maps at an early age. As a kid growing up in San Francisco he’d pore over roadmaps in the backseat of the car on family vacations. Sometime around age 11 he started ...