A History of America in 100 Maps

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LIST OF MAPS 265

Gotthelf Zimmerman, “Auswanderer-karte
und Wegweiser nach Nordamerika.”
(Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler’schen Buchh.,
1853). Courtesy of Library of Congress.
49 x 65 cm.
“Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted
Territories,” in John Jay, America Free, or
America Slave. An Address on the State of the
Country Delivered at Bedford, Westchester
County, New York. (New York, 1856).
8177.e.32.(6.). Sheet 15 x 22 cm.
Edwin Hergesheimer and the U.S. Coast
Survey, “Map Showing the Distribution
of the Slave Population of the Southern
States of the United States. Compiled from
the Census of 1860.” (Washington:
Engraved by Th. Leonhardt, 1861).
Courtesy of Library of Congress.
59 x 86 cm.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, “First Reading
of the Emancipation Proclamation by
President Lincoln,” Oil on canvas.
Courtesy of United States Senate. 274 x
457 cm.
“Map of Georgia & Alabama. Representing
Rail-ways, Post-roads, Population, and
Agricultural Productions. Prepared at the
Census Office. Under direction of Jos. C.G.
Kennedy Superintendent.” Adapted circa



  1. Original map: “Map of Georgia &
    Alabama exhibiting the Post Offices, Post
    Roads, Canals, Railroads, &c. by David H.
    Burr, late topographer to the Post Office,”

  2. Courtesy of National Archives and
    Records Administration RG77. 94 x 62 cm.
    “Battle of New Orleans for Freedom.
    September 14, 1874. Compiled by T.S.
    Hardee, C.E.” Courtesy of Boston Rare
    Maps and Barry Ruderman Antique Maps.
    46 x 58.5 cm.
    “Map of Virginia, by J. Hotchkiss” (Richmond,
    VA: Lith. By A. Hoen & Co., 1874), in
    Virginia: a Geographical and Political Summary
    (Richmond, VA: R. F. Walker, 1876). 10410.
    eee.7. 25 x 56 cm.
    Map of Part of the Great Flat-top Coal-field of
    Va. & W. Va. Showing Location of
    Pocahontas & Bluestone Collieries May,
    1886.” Jed. Hotchkiss, Staunton, Va.
    Courtesy of Library of Congress. 22 x 22
    cm.
    “Popular Vote. Ratio of Predominant to Total
    Vote, by Counties. 1880.” In Henry Gannett
    and Fletcher W. Hewes, Scribner’s Statistical
    Atlas of the United States (New York:
    Scribner, 1883). 42 x 63 cm. Courtesy of
    David Rumsey Map Collection, David
    Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
    “Under a Black Cloud!” (1883). Courtesy of
    Library of Congress. 43 x 66 cm.
    “Map Illustrating the Extermination of the
    American Bison. Prepared by W. T.
    Hornaday.” Compiled under the direction
    of Henry Gannett. In Annual Report of the
    Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
    (Washington, DC: Government Printing
    Office, 1889). A.S.910. 61 x 58 cm.
    “Arid Region of the United States Showing
    Drainage Districts,” in John Wesley Powell,
    Report of the Secretary of the Interior, United
    States. Department of the Interior. 51st
    Congress, Second Session, v.IV, part II,

  3. 35.5 x 26.5 cm.
    “Official Map of ‘Chinatown’ in San
    Francisco. Prepared under the supervision
    of the Special Committee of the Board of
    Supervisors, July 1885. Willard B. Farwell,
    John E. Kunkler, E. B. Pond,” in The Chinese
    at Home and Abroad (San Francisco: A. L.
    Bancroft, 1885). Courtesy of David Rumsey


Map Collection, David Rumsey Map
Center, Stanford Libraries. 62 x 140 cm.
Agnes Sinclair Holbrook and Florence Kelley,
“Map of Nationalities,” in Hull-House Maps
and Papers (New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1895).
08225.e.1/5. 36 x 25.4 cm.
“The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia: The
Distribution of Negro Inhabitants
throughout the Ward, and Their Social
Condition,” in W. E. B. DuBois, The
Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, University
of Pennsylvania Publications. Ac.2692.p.
15 x 100 cm.
“United States of America, 1904,” reproduced
in Atlas of the Mexican Conflict Containing
Detailed Maps Showing the Territory Involved
... (New York: Rand McNally & Company,
1914) [map copyright 1900 and 1904].
Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection,
David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
Libraries. 25 x 32 cm.
C.P. Gray, “Aeronautical View of the Panama
Canal” (New York: Central Novelty
Company, 1911). Maps 29.c.34. Map only
11 x 33 cm.
“Votes for women a success: the map proves
it.” (New York: National American Woman
Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc., circa
1914). Maps CC.5.a.551. 15 x 11 cm.
“Diagram illustrating typical Fire Trench,
Second Line and Communication
Trenches, First Aid Stations, &c &c..” in
Arthur Guy Empey, “Over the Top,” by an
American Soldier Who Went (New York,
London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917).
Courtesy of University of Denver Penrose
Library. 18 x 22.5 cm.
“Why Germany Wants Peace Now,” in
Frederic L. Paxson, Edward S. Corwin &
Samuel B. Harding, War Cyclopedia: A
Handbook for Ready Reference on the Great
War. Issued by the Committee on Public
Information (Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1917). Courtesy of Cornell
University—PJ Mode Collection of
Persuasive Maps. 22 x 25 cm.
“Chronological map of the influenza
epidemic of 1918,” Annual Report of the
Surgeon General of the Public Health Service
(Washington, DC: Government Printing
Office, 1919). A.S.516. 15 x 10 cm.
“Armour’s Food Source Map: The Greatness
of the United States is Founded on
Agriculture” (Chicago: Armour &
Company, 1922). Lithograph by Joseph
Pennell. Courtesy of David Rumsey Map
Collection, David Rumsey Map Center,
Stanford Libraries. 64 x 99 cm.
“Why Not Free Water?” [utility bill],
Department of Public Service, City of Los
Angeles. Courtesy of Cornell University—
PJ Mode Collection of Persuasive Maps.
9 x 12 cm.
“Chicago’s Gangland,” in Frederic Milton
Thrasher, The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in
Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1927). Ac.2691.d/34.(2.). 65 x 45 cm.
E. Simms Campbell, “A night-club map of
Harlem” (New York: Dell Publishing
Company, circa 1933). Courtesy of Library
of Congress. 35 x 56 cm.
Daniel K. Wallingford, “A New Yorker’s Idea
of the United States of America” (New
York: Daniel K. Wallingford, 1939).
Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection,
David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
Libraries. 30 x 41 cm.
“Around the World in California in 4 Days,”
Los Angeles Times (March 4, 1934). © 1934
Los Angeles Times. Used with permission.

Image courtesy of Margaret Herrick
Library, Academy of Motion Pictures and
Sciences. 56 x 81 cm.
“The Great American Roadside,” Fortune
(September 1934). Author’s collection.
27 x 46 cm.
“Afro American Travel Map,” in Travel Guide of
Negro Hotels and Guest Houses. Published by
Afro-American Newspapers (1942). Courtesy
of David Rumsey Map Collection, David
Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries. 44
x 44 cm.
“Metropolitan Cleveland Security Map No 1 ...
Supervised and Submitted by: C. C. Boyd,
Field Agent, Mortgage Rehabilitation
Division, Home Owner’s Loan Corpora-
tion” (Cleveland: Mountcastle Map Co.,
1936). National Archives and Records
Administration. 77 x 99 cm.
Stephen Vorhies and Rand McNally, “Raw
Materials for a U.S. Ruhr,” Fortune (October
1933). Author’s collection. 34 x 53 cm.
Richard Edes Harrison, “Three Approaches to
the U.S.,” Fortune (September 1940).
Author’s collection. Reproduced courtesy
of the estate of Richard Edes Harrison.
33 x 27 cm.
Richard Edes Harrison, “The World Divided,”
Fortune (August 1941). Image courtesy of
Cornell University—PJ Mode Collection of
Persuasive Maps. Reproduced courtesy of
the estate of Richard Edes Harrison.
33 x 43 cm.
MacDonald Gill, “The Time & Tide Map of
the Atlantic Charter” (London: George
Philip & Son, 1942). Maps 950.(211.).
76 x 109 cm.
Henry J. MacMillan, “XIX Corps in Action”
(Fort Lewis, Washington: U.S. Army 62nd
Engineer Topographic Company, 1945).
Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection,
David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
Libraries. 59 x 73 cm.
Henry J. MacMillan, “XIX Corps in Action:
From Siegfried Line to Victory” (Fort Lewis,
Washington: U.S. Army 62nd Engineer
Topographic Company, 1945). Courtesy
of David Rumsey Map Collection, David
Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.
59 x 73 cm.
1945 III. Div. Mauthausen and Z Lince do
Nachoda 1945, from the diary of Michael J.
Kraus. Courtesy of United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Michael J.
Kraus Papers. Pages measuring 21 x 15 cm.
“Ancient Courses Mississippi River Meander
Belt,” Plate 9, in Harold N. Fisk, Geological
Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower
Mississippi River (U.S. Department of the
Army and the Mississippi River
Commission, 1944). Document Supply
Wf1/7959. 107 x 76 cm
Hal Shelton and Jeppesen Map Company,
Denver – Chicago Chart 6, in Air Maps of
United Air Lines. Main Line Airway (1949).
Author’s collection. Reproduced with
permission of Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. ©
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 2018. 21 x 57 cm.
“Voici les bases Americaines dans le monde,”
Parti Communiste Francais [Communist
Party of France] (1951). Courtesy of Cornell
University—PJ Mode Collection of
Persuasive Maps. 82 x 122 cm.
“How Communists Menace Vital Materials,”
in Soviet Total War: ‘Historic Mission of
Violence and Deceit (Washington, DC, 1956).
Courtesy of Cornell University—PJ Mode
Collection of Persuasive Maps. 22 x 39 cm.
Herb Ryman and Walt Disney, Schematic
Aerial View of Disneyland, 1953. Image

courtesy of Walt Disney Imagineering ©
Disney. 99 x 171 cm on page 128 x 199 cm.
“A Progress Report on the Interstate Highway
System,” Caterpillar Corporation, Saturday
Evening Post (April 22, 1961). Author’s
collection. 27 x 53 cm.
Background map of the Freedom Rides,
Associated Press Features, 1962. Courtesy
of Associated Press/Shutterstock. 12 x 14 cm.
Photograph of missile sites. U.S. Department
of Defense Cuban Missile Crisis Briefing
Materials. Courtesy of John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library, National Archives
and Records Administration.
12.7 x 10 cm.
Map of aircraft locations in Cuba, 1962.
Courtesy of Theodore Sorensen Papers,
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library,
National Archives and Records
Administration. 15 x 43 cm.
Map of missile range in Cuba, 1962. Courtesy
of Theodore Sorensen Papers, John F.
Kennedy Presidential Library, National
Archives and Records Administration.
26.6 x 20 cm.
United States Information Agency,
“Aggression from the North” (1965).
National Archives and Records
Administration. 85 x 85 cm.
Map of the National student strike, April 3
Movement (1970). Courtesy of Cornell
University—PJ Mode Collection of
Persuasive Maps. 43 x 56 cm.
“Atlantic Ocean Floor” (1968), Heirich
Berann, National Geographic Magazine (June
1968). Maps CC.5.b.42.(1.). © National
Geographic. 68 x 48 cm.
“Earthrise” photograph (1968), National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
George Zaffo and Thomas J. Lipton Inc.,
“Lipton Lunar Space Map,” (1969).
Courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection,
David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
Libraries. 50 x 60 cm.
Abraham Verghese, Steven L. Berk and Felix
Sarubbi, maps of HIV infection across the
United States, and around Johnson City,
Tennessee. Journal of Infections Diseases
vol. 160 no. 6 (December 1989), pp. 1052
and 1053 © 1989, Oxford University Press.
9 x 11 cm.
Peter Gould, serial maps of HIV infection from
1982–1990, in Becoming a Geographer
(1999). Courtesy of Syracuse University
Press. Maps 7.5 x 11.5 cm. except 1990,
measuring 11.5 x 18 cm.
“Regional Migration, 1955 to 1960” and
“Regional Migration, 1995 to 2000,” from
Census Atlas of the United States: Census 2000
Special Reports. (Washington, DC: U.S.
Census Bureau, 2007). Maps 238.b.70.
Each map 15 x 26.5 cm.
“Meatpacking and Hispanic Population
Change 1990–2000 Midwest Counties”
(2001). Map made by Paul Voss, David
Long and Jennifer Vogt. Courtesy of
Applied Population Laboratory, University
of Wisconsin.
Map of North Carolina’s 12th Congressional
District from 1992–2016. Compiled by
Kelly Measom at the University of Denver.
U.S. Census Bureau MAF/TIGER; basemap:
Esri, DigitalGlobe. Projection: WGS 1984
Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere.
Mary Kurgan, “Around Ground Zero: Lower
Manhattan after September 11” (2001).
Maps X.6952. 61 x 46 cm.
DeepMap, data visualization for autonomous
vehicles (2018). Courtesy Wei Luo and
DeepMap.
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