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Maps

Specialists

Libraries

Blogs

Cartographic Symbologies: The Art and Design of Expression in Historic Maps | August 18, 2020
Databases of the week: maps and geospatial data plus GIS Day! | October 22, 2019
Guest Blogger: Julia Leal | Student Map Assistant | Summer 2019 | October 16, 2019
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

Notable collections

  • The David Rumsey Map Collection at Stanford University Libraries

    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.

  • Iconic image for the Antiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich and the Stanford University Libraries.

    Maps of Africa

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

  • Geology of the Pine Mountain area, Ventura County, California

    Stanford Geological Survey Collection

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

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