Maps

Specialists

Julie Sweetkind-Singer

Assistant Director of Geospatial and Cartographic Services

Head of the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections

(650) 725-1102

sweetkind@stanford.edu

Data

Digital collections

Rare maps

Geographic Information Systems

Geography

Maps
G. Salim Mohammed

Head and Curator, David Rumsey Map Center

(650) 723-5100

gsalim@stanford.edu

Digital collections

Rare maps

Human Geography

Maps

Libraries

Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections

Today:

(650) 723-2746

brannerlibrary@stanford.edu

Library website

Hours & access
David Rumsey Map Center

Today:

(650) 498-8698

rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu

Library website

Hours & access

Blogs

2nd Ruderman Conference on Gender, Sexuality and Cartography, Oct 10-12, 2019 | September 3, 2019

Fly Us to the Moon: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 | July 12, 2019

Hit the Road America: A Cartographic History of the American Road Trip | June 25, 2019

Sanborn fire insurance map collection online | December 4, 2018

FOSS4GNA2018: The free & open source software for geospatial conference, St. Louis, MO. | May 19, 2018

Topic guides

Oil and gas maps

Topographic maps

Soviet military topographic map sets

Gazetteers

Sanborn fire insurance maps

Russia and Eurasia: find statistics, geographical information and maps

East Central Europe: Find statistics, geographical information and maps

Road maps

Find rare maps online

John Speed and John Ogilby, 15-16th century cartographers

Geographic atlases

Gaihozu: Japanese imperial maps

Warren Heckrotte gold rush maps

Maps to the masses

Nineteenth-century landscape views

Thematic maps: Civil War & fire insurance

Course guides

CLASSGEN 61N

Classical California

Notable collections

David Rumsey Map Collection

Collection focusing on the Mapping of North America, also contains maps from around the world. The majority of the collection is from the 17th-19th Century.
Maps of Africa

Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.
Stanford Geological Survey Collection

450 maps and 50 field notebooks survey and map parts of California, Nevada, and Utah.