Historic Maps and Plans

Blueprints and plans related to city expansions and construction projects, illustrating urban development themes from the early 20th century.

A Signal Corps photographer took a photo of a map during World War One. The map is identified as the vicinity of Chatel Chehery and is marked with issued symbols and European maps and charts. The photograph is labeled as 43906.

Jansen Hermann (1869-1945), city expansion for Solatsch zur Residenzstadt Poznan (14.08.1917): Basic plan 1: 2000 as Inv.No. 20747, comparison of the designated street areas in the projects of Stübben and Jansen. Pencil and colored pencils on transparent, 60.3 x 111 cm (including scan edges) Jansen Hermann (1869-1945): Stadterweiterung für Solatsch zur Residenzstadt Posen

Plan South line new channel , Rivers, Boundaries, Channels. Lawrence

US soldier examining issued symbol maps and charts in the Foret d'Argonne, France during World War One.

Fortress construction, ideal design, bastionian attachment, floor plans and cuts

A Signal Corps photographer took a photo of a map during World War One. The map is identified as the vicinity of Chatel Chehery and is marked with issued symbols and European maps and charts. The photograph is labeled as 43906.

Plan South line new channel , Rivers, Boundaries, Channels. Lawrence

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), Poznan Castle, Poznan (1939-1943): Plan content N.N. detected. Material/technology N.N. Captured, 37.6 x 95.5 cm (including scan edges) Böhmer & Petrich : Schloss Posen, Posen. Umbau

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), official apartment of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berlin-Mitte (1941-1941): Plattenbelag stair hall eG 1:20. Light break on paper, 46 x 83.1 cm (including scan edges) Böhmer & Petrich : Dienstwohnung des Reichsaußenministers Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin-Mitte. Umbau

Niermann Carl (1832-1896), church for 300 seats in Borgentreich-Lütgeneder (without dat.): Floor plan with a seating plan. Pencil and ink on cardboard, 23.7 x 45.3 cm (including scan edges) Niermann Carl (1832-1896): Kirche für 300 Sitzplätze, Borgentreich-Lütgeneder

Taeger Hermann (1837-1918), connecting railway for Berlin. Schinkel competition 1865 (1865): 4 terrain profiles for filling and excavation; 2 scale strips; Explanation text. Tusche watercolor on the box, 48 x 63.5 cm (including scan edges) Taeger Hermann (1837-1918): Verbindungsbahn für Berlin. Schinkelwettbewerb 1865

Brendel Helmut, Youth Real Home for Silesia. Schinkel competition 1943 (1943): Grundriss basement 1: 200. Light break on paper, 58.9 x 85.7 cm (including scan edges) Brendel Helmut : Jugenderholungsheim für Schlesien. Schinkelwettbewerb 1943

Jansen Hermann (1869-1945), Haus Jansen in Berlin-Grunewald (1934): Garden plan, map of the trees 1: 100 (by Inv.No. 21959). Light break on transparent, 65.7 x 63.8 cm (including scan edges) Jansen Hermann (1869-1945): Haus Jansen, Berlin-Grunewald

Windsor Castle, Berkshire: Elevation, Studio of Sir Jeffry Wyatville, 1766-1840, British, 1838, Graphite and brown ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with three fold marks, Sheet: 21 1/2 × 29 1/2 inches (54.6 × 74.9 cm), architectural subject

Course of canal to Charlestown Millpond , Landowners, Massachusetts, Middlesex Canal, Maps, Manuscript, Middlesex Canal Mass., Maps, Manuscript Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

Böhmer & Petrich, official apartment of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin-Mitte. Conversion: ceiling cornice. Pencil, coal on transparent, 91.5 x 148 cm (including scan edge). Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin Inv. No. FB 054.1144. Böhmer & Petrich : Dienstwohnung des Reichsaußenministers Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin-Mitte. Umbau

Plan Coffee land 1884, 1885 , Boundaries. Lawrence

Sala mine and silver plant chronology.sala silver mine.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

Unknown architect, Hohenzollern Canal Eberswalde. Underpass of the Berlin railway - Szczecin (without date): site plan. Lithograph on paper, 34.1 x 84.5 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Hohenzollernkanal Eberswalde. Unterführung der Eisenbahn Berlin - Stettin

Members of the Signal Corps are seen examining maps and charts during World War One. They are studying the trace of a new trench at location B and taking note of dugouts under construction at location A. Earth has been spread carefully in the direction of light for better visibility.

Photo collection Government information service. Gold coast of Africa. undated

Unknown architect, wooden viaduct. Monthly competition January 1879 (01.1879): 3 variants: Upper side view 1: 250; 2 scale strips. Pencil watercolor on the box, 45 x 65 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Hölzerner Viadukt. Monatskonkurrenz Januar 1879

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), Park Hotel in Posen (January 25, 1941): Stuck cornice in the reception hall 1: 1. Pencil, coal on transparent, 91.2 x 117.7 cm (including scan edges)

This photograph from the collection "Photographs of American Military Activities during World War One" depicts a map and chart section of the Signal Corps. The number 7506 is visible, and it is noted that the photographer is in need of a description for this image. The map displayed shows symbols indicating the direction of light, an anti-aircraft gun pit with open parts, smoke of discharge at the mouth of the pits, a trench emplacement, a cattle pond, and the code "ARARAA 32" is written on it.

Abklatsch of the chalk drawing on page 16, c. 1897 - 1900 Page 17 from a sketchbook with 13 sheets. paper

Jansen Hermann (1869-1945), Bamberg development plan. Design of the future railway and waterway systems (1929-1929): site plan 1: 5000. Pencil on transparent, 80.2 x 74.6 cm (including scan edges) Jansen Hermann (1869-1945): Bebauungsplan Bamberg. Ausgestaltung der künftigen Eisenbahn- und Wasserstraßenanlagen

Topographical view of Birmingham, Drawing, in Biro Plan of Curzon Street Station, Birmingham, Social history, Topographical Views, England, Midlands

Landing Fields - Philippines - Tacloban, Aerial Photograph.

N.N., Großer Tiergarten, Berlin (without date): Plant plan 1: 1000. Light break on paper, 46.6 x 96.6 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Großer Tiergarten, Berlin

Detail plan of Haverhill Street , Streets. Lawrence

Cityscape, 1840 - 1841 Leaf 9 Verso and 10 Recto from a sketchbook with 41 sheets. paper. pencil city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions

Diagram of the conduits encountered in the excavations of the viaduct, Boulevard Exelmans.

Taut Bruno (1880-1938), Gartenstadt Falkenberg in Berlin-Altglienicke (1922): Altglienicke, card sheet. Light break on the cardboard, 64 x 89 cm (including scan edges) Taut Bruno (1880-1938): Gartenstadt Falkenberg, Berlin-Altglienicke

A soldier from the Signal Corps is seen organizing and studying maps and charts in Pismes, France during World War One. The photograph captures the soldier's meticulous work as they analyze strategic information. This image showcases the importance of maps and charts in military operations during the war.

Cartographic, Maps. 1908. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fire insurance , New York (State), Real property , New York (State), Cities & towns , New York (State) Bronx, V. 9, Plate No. 13 Map bounded by East River

Sketch illustrating the progress of the survey of the coast in 1845 showing the positions occupied in making observations upon currents in New York Bay & Harbor and the East River. Cartographic. Maps. 1845. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fishers Island Sound (Conn. and N.Y.) , Maps, Hydrographic surveying , Fishers Island (Conn. and N.Y.), Hydrographic surveying , New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.), New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) , Maps

Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877), Ebernburg (1856): Copy after an old copper engraving from 1690: floor plan, scale bar. Pencil on transparent, 27.8 x 36.9 cm (including scan edges) Quast Ferdinand von (1807-1877): Ebernburg

Photograph shows a diagram of a German defense system, taken in 1918 during the Allies' final drive. The Germans did not have time to build complete trenches, so they utilized listening posts and probable machine gun emplacements. The photograph also shows the strengthening of trenches and the construction of new ones, as well as old road tracks and dug-outs for ammunition storage.

Sauce Eugen de la, colony Berlin-Grunewald (1903-1904): Fontanestrasse site plan. Ink, ink colored on paper, 34.4 x 27.6 cm (including scan edges) Sauce Eugen de la : Kolonie Berlin-Grunewald

The map covers the coastal area between Cape Agulhas in the west and the mouth of the Sunday River in the east, bordered to the north by the line Swellendam - Platte Kloof - Langebergen - Outenikwabergen - Langkloofbergen - Zwartkop, with names of the different areas, farms, inhabitants, as well as pictures of some animals, accessed by means of a guide map, depicted as left and right half, with latitude and longitude, Map of the south coast of South Africa between Cape Agulhas and the Sundays River., draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon, (attributed to), J.C. Friderici, (possibly), Kaapprovincie, after 1789 - 1790, paper, pen, brush, h 930 mm × w 3740 mm

Engineering Plans, Distribution Department, Low Service Pipe Lines, March 1898; August 1905; Acc. No. B413, Mass., Aug. 1905 , waterworks, engineering maps

Photograph of Hull Division Tracing No. 43,592. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Land Utilization Town of Hancock. Land Utilization Town of Hancock

Changes in the bed of Boston Harbor from a comparison of the surveys of 1835-61 , Boston Harbor Mass., Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

Plan of a portion of Mt. Pleasant St. in the Town of Rockport showing proposed alterations , Streets

Plan of lots at Saratoga Heihts, Rockport, Mass. ,

Klomp Johannes Franziskus (1865-1946), Heart of Jesus Church (with vicarie), Heeren-Werve (January 12, 1911): Detail of the main tower crown, average 1:10. Tusche, pencil watercolored on transparent, 82.9 x 34.4 cm (including scan edges) Klomp Johannes Franziskus (1865-1946): Herz-Jesu-Kirche (mit Vikarie), Heeren-Werve

Sala mine and silver plant chronology.sala silver mine.ur Carl Sahlin mountain historical collection.

N.N., Bahnhof, Halle/Saale. (From: Atlas to the magazine for Building, ed. V. Ministry of Public Works, Jg. 43, 1893): Plans 1: 5000. Stitch on paper, 42.8 x 86.1 cm (including scan edges)

Unknown designer created radiator plans A and B for Villa Karma, with plan A on transparent paper and plan B as a blueprint, dated 1904-1906.

Land at Westchester belonging to Peter Allair 1789. Cartographic. Maps, Surveys, land surveys. Manuscripts and Archives Division

Dana Center Cemetery, Dana, Mass., July 1936 , waterworks, reservoirs water distribution structures, real estate, cemeteries

Map of the Schieland Water Board, with Berkel and Bergschenhoek, Floris Balthasarsz. Van Berckenrode, 1611 - 1635 print paper etching / engraving maps of separate countries or regions. armorial bearing, heraldry Schieland

Sketch B.No.2 showing the progress of the survey in New York Bay & Hudson River from 1851 to 1859 , Harbors, Coastlines, Navigation, Rivers. Robert E. Diefenbach Map Collection

Jansen Hermann (1869-1945), Planning for Plowdiw (January 22, 1944): General development plan, part M (4D) 1: 5000 (from Inv.No. 22360). Light break on paper, 51.8 x 47.8 cm (including scan edges) Jansen Hermann (1869-1945): Planung für Plowdiw

"Flight formation at Sumber A Payne Field, West Point, Mississippi. This aerial photograph was taken on August 10, 1918, and received from the D.M.A. photographer on September 13, 1918. The image was censored and released by the M.I.D. censor on September 17, 1918."

George Edmund Street, 1824-1881, British, Detail of Red Altar for Prestbury Church, Cheltenham, 1864. Graphite, pen and black ink on thin, moderately textured, brown wove paper.

The two routes surveyed for the National Road from Springfield to Richmond, 1835 : reduced from the original survey of Captain A. Canfield, U.S. Topographical Engineer, Lieuts. J.E. Johnston & J.W. McCrabb , Roads, Ohio, Maps, Cumberland Road, Maps, Ohio, Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

Blum Otto, Silesian mountain railway (01.04.1900): Höhe plan scale of lengths 1: 5000, scale of the heights 1: 500. Ink colored, watercolor on the box, 46.9 x 67.4 cm (including scan edges) Blum Otto : Schlesische Gebirgsbahn. Schinkelwettbewerb 1900

A diagram of the First Division telephone system, shows the layout and connections for efficient communication within the division. The photograph was taken by the Signal Corps on February 19, 1921 and bears the identification number 63648.

Cartographic, Maps. 1884 - 1936. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fire insurance , New York (State), Real property , New York (State), Cities & towns , New York (State) Brooklyn V. 15, Plate No. 92 Map bounded by Ralph Ave., E.72nd St., Avenue K

Aerial photograph of Wilbur Wright Aviation Field in Fairfield, Ohio. The image shows a map of the field with labels such as "Taxi" and dates of May 8, 1918, and July 11, 1918. The notes mention sulfur, questionnaires, and various names like Clark, Greeria, and Osborn.

Korsochoven on a field. Leaf 15 Recto from a sketchbook with 27 sheets.

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), official apartment of the Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berlin-Mitte (1941-1941): Tennishaus: Gesim's details variants (old). Pencil on transparent, 71.5 x 92.1 cm (including scan edges)

Firm construction, Esteal typepien Darity, infoner, encodes

Coal fields and coal mines, circa 1887, by New Zealand Geological Survey, Sir James Hector.

Map of Yard. Glass Plate Negatives of the Construction and Repair of Buildings, Facilities, and Vessels at the New York Navy Yard.

Fragments of Cardnet of Northern Hemisphere, Anonymous, in Or Before 1596 print Two fragments of a card network, numbered 60, 70, 80 and 90. A network of lines used for location. A semi -circular network of lines; The system of earthly meridians and parallels in equatorial stereographic projection. The card network was probably used in combination with the Length Guide of Plancius. Northern Netherlands paper engraving maps, atlases

The two routes surveyed for the National Road from Springfield to Richmond, 1835 : reduced from the original survey of Captain A. Canfield, U.S. Topographical Engineer, Lieuts. J.E. Johnston & J.W. McCrabb , Roads, Ohio, Maps, Cumberland Road, Maps, Ohio, Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

Jansen Hermann (1869-1945), total development plan Ankara (06.05.1932): Basic plan, partial sheet 5 A. Tusche over a break on transparent, 45.8 x 50 cm (incl. Scan edges) Jansen Hermann (1869-1945): Gesamtbebauungsplan Ankara

Plan des forts, batteries et poste de West-Point, 1780. Cartographic. Maps. 1816. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fortification , New York (State) , West Point (N.Y.), New York (State) , History , Revolution, 1775-1783 , Maps, West Point (N.Y.) , Buildings, structures, etc. , Maps

Image of the Leytse Vaert, with the Santpadt and Rywegh located along the Desselve, from the Stadt Utrecht Affen to Hermelen

Schematic drawing: typical roadbed of State Route 2, Northbound and Southbound Lanes. Ritchie Memorial Boulevard, near Glen Burnie. Original caption: Ritchie Memorial Boulevard: State Route 2, Baltimore to Annapolis. Typical sections of Northbound and Southbound lanes near Glen Burnie, Maryland. State: Maryland.

Map of the Schieland Water Board, with Zevenhuizen and Bleiswijk, Floris Balthasarsz. Van Berckenrode, 1611 - 1635 print paper etching / engraving maps of separate countries or regions. armorial bearing, heraldry Schieland

Fragmenten van kaartnet van noordelijk halfrond.Two fragments of a card network, numbered 60, 70, 80 and 90. A network of lines used for locating. A semicircular network of lines; The system of earthly meridians and parallels in equatorial stereographic projection. The card network was probably used in combination with the Length Guide from Plancius.

Plate 2: Tin, Beschreibung einer ungemein grossen Elektrisier-Maschine und der damit im Teylerschen Museum zu Haarlem angestelten Versuche, Eschenbach, H.C.W., Marum, M. van (Martinus), 1750-1837, Schwickert, Engraving, 1786-1798, Plate 2 precedes and faces page 15 in first section of book. This hand-colored, is folded into the book lengthwise with 2 folds, and also folded into the book at the lower edge with 1 fold. 3 parts bound as 1 volume. (dh)

Wastewater system map, Boston proper, sheet no. 23h , Sewerage, Massachusetts, Boston, Maps, Fenway Boston, Mass., Maps Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection

N.N., Design of the upper Dobrinkatal (without dat.): Falkenhain district. Light break on paper, 63 x 46 cm (including scan edges) N.N. : Gestaltung des oberen Dobrinkatales

Plan of land at South End, Rockport, Mass. ,

Cartographic, Maps. 1884 - 1936. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fire insurance , New York (State), Real property , New York (State), Cities & towns , New York (State) Brooklyn V. 11, Plate No. 16 Map bounded by New York Bay, 59th St., Narrows Ave., 62nd St.

Förster Max, port facility on the Oberspree in Berlin. Schinkel competition 1893 (December 18, 1893): Runting bridge. View, floor plan 1: 100, forces plans 1: 100, 1:50. Ink, ink colored on cardboard, 75.8 x 115.5 cm (including scan edges) Förster Max : Hafenanlage an der Oberspree, Berlin. Schinkelwettbewerb 1893

North Harvard project area : locality map , Boston Mass., Maps, City planning, Massachusetts, Boston, Maps, Urban renewal, Massachusetts, Boston, Maps

Area Chart , Maps. Photographs of the First Naval District

Tuscany Siena Montalcino Museo Civico25. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Entire manuscript. Manuscripts. Post-medieval: Sculpture and ceramics from local workshops (2nd half 12th century; Sienese maiolica; 14th century weapons German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), Poznan Castle, Poznan (1939-1943): Plan content N.N. detected. Material/technology N.N. recorded, 43.4 x 106.1 cm (including scan edges) Böhmer & Petrich : Schloss Posen, Posen. Umbau

Plan Lawrence St. , Streets, Boundaries. Lawrence

Bahnhof, Halle/Saale. Remove: Department plan and track plan total system 1: 1000

Roads and Buildings Town of Townsend. Roads and Buildings Town of Townsend

Lehmgrübner Paul (1855-1916), town hall in Alsfeld (1897): Profiles 1: 1. Pencil on the box, 35.3 x 45.3 cm (including scan edges) Lehmgrübner Paul (1855-1916): Rathaus, Alsfeld

Cartographic, Maps. 1884 - 1936. Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. Fire insurance , New York (State), Real property , New York (State), Cities & towns , New York (State) Queens V. 2, Plate No. 84 Map bounded by Astoria Light, Heat & Power Co., Berrians Creek

Plan of the re-location of the old road across Long Beach , Streets

Blum Otto, Silesian mountain railway (April 1st, 1900): Höhenplan of the steep track excesses bedding cross sections. Ink colored, watercolor on cardboard, 48.2 x 138.7 cm (including scan edges) Blum Otto : Schlesische Gebirgsbahn. Schinkelwettbewerb 1900

Encke Friedrich August (1861-1931), Garten Schmeil, Heidelberg (January 10, 1910): cuts through the rose garden. Blueprint on paper, 88.9 x 40.5 cm (including scan edges)

Böhmer Franz (1907-1943), Villa von der Heydt in Berlin-Tiergarten. Conversion (June 1st, 1938): Map from Heydtstraße from the Ludewig surveying office. Ink, ink colored on transparent, 45.6 x 47.2 cm (including scan edges)

Poelzig Hans (1869-1936), concert hall in Beuthen. Conversion (September 12, 1927): Lighting system of the main staircase 1:20. Pencil, colored pencil on transparent, 41 x 56.7 cm (including scan edges) Poelzig Hans (1869-1936): Konzerthaus, Beuthen. Umbau

Engineering Plans, Distribution Department, Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Station 55+23, Detail Record 19-11; Station 71+36, Detail Record 19-18, Brookline, Mass., Nov. 16, 1898 , waterworks, engineering maps

Calculation of part of lot 30 of Warren's estate., January 22, 1781

Fortress, ideal presentation, shot lines

Tables, Rate of Rainfall, record made by recording gauge at Chestnut Hill Reservoir, June 30-July 1, Brighton, Mass., 1915 , waterworks, graphs

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