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Alabama Maps
"...is an ongoing project of the Cartographic Research Laboratory, which operates under the auspices of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama...The Historical Map Archive is a digitized collection of selected map holdings from the University of Alabama Map Library, the W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library, the Rucker Agee Collection of the Birmingham Public Library, the Geological Survey of Alabama, and the Alabama Department of Archives and History."

Alexandria Digital Library
Map and Imagery Laboratory
University of California at Santa Barbara

Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC)
"The Ancient World Mapping Center exists to promote cartography and geographic information science as essential disciplines within the field of ancient studies."
- Davis Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Atlas of Global Inequality
"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics...The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. We hope the information may also be of use for researchers and activists worldwide."
Sections include: Health ; Income Inequality ; Economic Globalization ; Inequality & Growth ; Teaching Activities.
- University of California, Santa Cruz.

Conservation and Environmental Maps
"The historic and more recent maps contained in this category show early exploration and subsequent land use in various areas of the United States. These maps show the changes in the landscape, including natural and man-made features, recreational and wilderness areas, geology, topography, wetland area, vegetation, and wildlife. Specific conservation projects such as the growth and development of U.S. National Parks are included in this category."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Cultural Landscapes
"Cultural Landscapes geography is documented in this category by large-scale maps such as individual land surveys, county land ownership maps and atlases, large-scale topographic maps, and thematic maps showing economic activity. These maps show the cultural modification of a physical landscape as settlers established their farmsteads and villages, constructed the connecting transportation systems, and named their surroundings. Some maps show areas occupied by Native Americans, especially after their resettlement by the United States government."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Edwin C. Bolles Collection, 1765-1921
A Digital Archive on the History and Topography of London
"The digital archive represents a comprehensive and integrated collection of sources and resources on the history and topography of London. Texts, images, and maps in the Bolles collection are all interconnected. Together they form a body of material, heterogeneous in form, but homogeneous in theme, that transcends the limits of print publication and exploits the flexibility of the electronic medium. The digitized maps are linked to each other, to relevant source texts, and to illustrations of the locations as they appeared a the time or at present. Similarly, the texts are linked to the maps and the images, and so on."
- University Archives, Tufts Library, Tufts University

University of Georgia Hargrett Library Rare Map Collection
"...maintains a collection of more than 800 historic maps spanning nearly 500 years, from the sixteenth century through the early twentieth century."
Site contents include: New World ; Colonial America ; Revolutionary America ; Revolutionary Georgia ; Union & Expansion ; American Civil War ; Frontier to New South ; Savannah & the Coast ; Transportation.

Global Forest Watch
"...an international data and mapping network that combines on-the-ground knowledge with digital technology to provide accurate information about the world's forests."

Historic Topographic Maps of California
"This is a project to provide Web access to the historic topographic quadrangles produced by the U.S. Geological Survey between 1895 to the present."

Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California, Berkeley

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
U.S. Congressional Documents - United States Serial Set, Number 4015
"...contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. (Part one is printed in United States Serial Set Number 4014.) Part two, which was also printed as House Document No. 736 of the U.S. Serial Set, 56th Congress, 1st Session, features sixty-seven maps and two tables compiled by Charles C. Royce, with an introductory essay by Cyrus Thomas."

Iraq Maps
Includes: Country Maps ; City Maps ; Detailed Maps ; Thematic Maps ; Historical Maps ; Other Web Sites.
- University of Texas - Perry-Castañeda Map Collection

Library of Congress - Map Collections
"The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress. These images were created from maps and atlases and, in general, are restricted to items that are not covered by copyright protection."
Major categories are: Cities and Towns ; Cultural Landscapes ; Conservation and Environment ; Military Battles and Campaigns ; Discovery and Exploration ; Transportation and Communication ; General Maps.
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Maps of the French and Indian War
From the Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Sections include: About the War ; About Maps ; Online Atlas ; View Maps.

Tribal Maps
EPA Region 9 [Southwest]

UC Atlas of Global Inequality
"The Atlas of Global Inequality explores some aspects of inequality using online, downloadable maps and graphics...The Atlas explores the interaction between global integration (globalization) and inequality, and provides maps, graphics and data primarily for use by students and teachers in the University of California. We hope the information may also be of use for researchers and activists worldwide."
Sections include: Health ; Income Inequality ; Economic Globalization ; Inequality & Growth ; Teaching Activities.
- University of California, Santa Cruz.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan Maps
Perry-Castaneda Map Collection - University of Texas Map Collection

Soil Regions of Afghanistan
Soil map and soil climate map, USDA-NRCS, Soil Survey Division, World Soil Resources, Washington D.C.

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