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USC Digital Libraries: Sea of Korea Maps

What is the Sea of Korea? Simply put, it is the body of water between Japan and Korea. This marvelous digital collection from the USC Digital Libraries brings together two private collections comprised of 172 maps of this expanse of water dating from 1606 to 1895. The maps also vary in language: English, French, Japanese, Dutch, Korean, Latin, German, and Russian. One good starting point is the...

https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/CS.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=Home
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USGS Historical Topographical Map Explorer

Map lovers will find much to appreciate in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer, an exciting mapping project powered by Esri. To begin, readers may simply type in the location of the place they would like to explore. For example, entering "Ashland, Oregon" calls up a map of the small town on the northern border of California. Clicking on the map then pulls up a timeline featuring multiple...

http://historicalmaps.arcgis.com/usgs/
UT Library Online: Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

A collection of non-copyrighted "electronic maps" are available for viewing and downloading (in JPEG and GIF formats) from the Perry-Castaneda Library (PCL) of the University of Texas at Austin. The maps are indexed by geographical region and country, and dates range from the early 1800s to as late as 1995. In addition to PCL's own collection there is a link to "other map-related web sites" which...

https://maps.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
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Vandermaelen Atlas Universel

Philippe Vandermaelen's 1827 Atlas Universel is a truly remarkable work consisting of 380 conically projected maps and 40 pages of statistical tables in six volumes. It was the first atlas produced by the then novel printing process known as lithography. As part of a special project funded by the Friends of the Princeton University Library, these maps were digitized and placed online here....

https://library.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites...
Yale University Library: The Map Collection

Traveling from the world of New Haven in 1886 to early cartographic interpretations of the coast of West Africa has never been easier with this lovely site created by the Yale University Map Library. Like many large universities, Yale has a wide-ranging map collection that spans centuries and continents. First-time visitors to the site can browse through sections that include "Maps of the World",...

https://web.library.yale.edu/maps
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