Free to Use and Reuse: Maps of Cities

The Library’s cartographic collections include a wide array of maps that depict everything from individual buildings to panoramic views of large urban areas. Among the featured maps this month are an 1884 map of the National Capital and an 1896 view of St. Louis, Missouri. Browse more content that is free to use and reuse.

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  View of Washington City.

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  Bird's eye view of the city of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky 1870.

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  View of Vicksburg and plan of the canal, fortifications & vicinity

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  Houston--a modern city.

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  Barre, Massachusetts.

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  Catasauqua, Pa.

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  Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868.

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  Saint Louis in 1896.

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  Cripple Creek, 1896.

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  Los Angeles as it appeared in 1871.

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  Bird's eye view of the City of Bangor, Penobscot County, Maine, 1875

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  Bird's eye view of Boston.

• The city of Boston.

• Bird's eye view of Boston Harbor along the South Shore to Plymouth, Cape Cod Canal, and Provincetown : in colors : showing all steamboat routes.

• Shenandoah, Pa. 1889.

• Fort Reno, Oklahoma Territory 1891.

• Provincetown.

• Circleville illustrated

• Rascher's birds eye view of the Chicago packing houses & union stock yards.

• View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7 before the discovery of gold.

• Bird's eye view of Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona.

• Oregon City.

• Perspective map of the city of Superior, Wis.

• A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734.

• Birds eye view of Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada.

• Birds-eye-view of Seattle and environs King County, Wash., 1891.

• Bird's eye view of the city of McGregor and North McGregor, Clayton County, Iowa 1869.

• Philadelphia, 1876 : chromatic view

• The Philadelphia of to-day, the world's greatest workshop : America's largest home city with more home owners than any other city in the world

• E. Sachse, & Co.'s bird's eye view of the city of Baltimore, 1869.

• The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884.

• Birdseye view of the National Capital, including the site of the proposed World's Exposition of 1892 and Permanent Exposition of the Three Americas

• Downingtown, Chester County, Pennsylvania 1893.

• View of Harrisburg, Penn.

• Elmira, N.Y. : 1873

• Grand birds eye view of the Great East River Suspension Bridge. Connecting the cities of New York & Brooklyn showing also the splendid panorama of the bay and part of New York.

• The city of New York.

• Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, burned by rebel cavalry July 30th 1864.

• Ocean City, N.J. : showing its unrivalled location, beautiful sea-shore, protected sailing waters, and famous fishing grounds, also railroads and ferry connections, artesian water, sanitary sewage [sic], electric lights, gas, electric cars.

• All roads will lead to Buffalo in September.

• City of Derby, Connecticut.

• View of Windsor Locks, Conn., 1877

• Aero-view of Amesbury, Massachusetts 1914.

• Montpelier, county seat of Washington County & capital of Vermont : 1884

• Bird's eye view of Concord, N.H. : 1875

• Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, Maine.

• Winnipeg

• A. T. Andreas' illustrated historical atlas of the State of Iowa.