A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping. Map-making isn’t always serious business. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, many U.S. artists embraced a form of ...

The pictures that comprise the current exhibition at the Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla could be found in the London Underground of the early 20th century, the pocket of a tourist in the Coachella ...

You never know what treasures might be hiding in your attic, but if you’ve got a few vintage maps stashed in there, you may have struck gold. From early maps of America to ultra-rare railroad and ...

New York City has always attracted mapmakers. Its instantly recognizable street grid, intensely diverse populace, and iconic, ever-changing skyline have provided endless inspiration for cartographers ...

We reached out to the NYPL for more on this particular map, and Kate Cordes, the manager of their Map Division, sure did deliver. This 1926 map is a typical, and excellent, example of what we'd called ...

A time capsule in more ways than one, a 1955 map features dozens of Santas cavorting all over the world. This 1950s Santa map is packed with fun details and dated cultural assumptions. Reprinted with ...