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Maps

Owning Institution: Huntington Library

About this Collection

The Map collection in the Digital Library contains approximately 8,000 images of cartographic materials, ranging from 16th-century European portolan charts to 20th-century California land-use maps. Among the sub-collections are maps owned by British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton; the Museum Book Store Maps, which include maps of the Americas and the West Indies from the 16th–19th centuries, purchased from the Museum Book Store, London, in the 1920s; the Solano-Reeve collection of surveys of Los Angeles and Southern California tracts; as well as printed tract maps from the Rare Book collection. View collection guide.

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Type of Item

7,545 items found in this collection

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