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American Geographical Society Library

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Reference and research library devoted to the acquisition, analysis, preservation, and retrieval of the literature of geography, cartography, and related fields. Located at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library

Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives

BPL - Norman B. Leventhal Map Center

The Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library (NBL Map Center) was created to promote the use of maps as an important educational tool to understand human history, civilization and the world today. The NBL Map Center seeks to preserve, catalog, study, and exhibit the Boston Public Library’s historically significant collection of 350,000 (World, European and United States) maps, that will be integrated with the latest technological advances of Global Information Systems (GIS).

Center for American History

Austin, Texas. From the University of Texas at Austin.

Earth Sciences & Map Library-University of California, Berkeley

Flinders' Journeys | State Library of New South Wales

Matthew Flinders circumnavigated and charted Australia.

Harvard Map Collection Digital Maps

From the Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Harvard Map Collection is one of the oldest and largest collections of cartographic materials in the United States with over 500,000 items.

Heritage Map Museum Home Page

Antique maps from 15th to 19th century.

John R. Borchert Map Library

Univ. of Minnesota.

MAGIC - Map and Geographic Information Center - University of Connecticut

Map Collections - National Library of Scotland

Maps

Held by the Wyoming State Archives.

National Library of Scotland Maps Collection

Online images of dozens of historical Scottish maps.

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education

University of Southern Maine, Portland.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

From The University of Texas at Austin.

Rare Map Collection at the Hargrett Library, University of Georgia

The Bodleian Library Map Room

The British Cartographic Society

The European Library

A portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some for a fee.

The Library of Congress