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Collectors value antique and vintage maps for their historical and visual appeal. Demand depends on subject (world and U.S. maps are popular), whether a map reflects historic changes, and of course appearance, condition and authenticity (beware of reproductions). Early road maps are also becoming popular, primarily for the graphics on their covers.
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American Engraved Powder Horns
The period of the French and Indian War was a map-making era. Since much of the country was not chartered, it is perfectly logical… [more]
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David Rumsey Map Collection
David Rumsey has put over 15,800 maps online, with a special focus on North and South American images from the 18th… [read review or visit site]
U. Texas Map Collection
This comprehensive map archive includes maps of the world, individual continents, and the U.S., as well as speciali… [read review or visit site]
Maps: Finding Our Place in the World
This attractively designed microsite from The Field Museum showcases highlights of their map collection, along with… [read review or visit site]
Harvard University Collections
This portal site highlights Harvard's many web accessible collections, featuring everything from photographs to mus… [read review or visit site]
The American Memory Project
This amazing Library of Congress site includes about a hundred photo and document collections (see complete list) o… [read review or visit site]
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library's impressive Digital Gallery offers free access to over 500,000 historical images inclu… [read review or visit site]
Petrol Maps
Ian Byrne's virtual glove compartment with almost 2,000 European petrol (gas) and oil company roadmaps. While Ameri… [read review or visit site]
Virtual Museum of Surveying
This site really measures up: the extensive galleries of surveying-related artifacts include a compass manufacturer… [read review or visit site]
Ephemera Blog
Marty Weil's wide-ranging, in-depth blog on ephemera, including lots of great interviews with ephemera collectors. … [read review or visit site]
Ephemera Society of America
Great reference on ephemera... includes examples and descriptions of various ephemera categories, selected special … [read review or visit site]
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Organic Accents: Branches Used As Decor
Care2.com, February 3rd
Above: To recreate the look of this simple children's room in the Netherlands, source a gnarled branch from your local hiking path and add other inexpensive elements, such as a Pearl River lantern and a vintage map. Organic Accents : Branches Used As...Read more
Gallup Map finds a new path in a GPS world
Kansas City Star, February 3rd
Some of the antique maps sported intricate compass roses and elegant key fonts; others were embellished with original artwork — a gushing well in the southwest quadrant of an oil map, for example. All were executed in thick black ink that bumped under...Read more
Okla. Company Settles Suit Over CEO Compensation
KOCO Oklahoma City, January 31stRetirement System and four other investors accused Chesapeake's board of directors of violating its "duties of good faith and loyalty" when they granted McClendon a $75 million bonus and purchased his antique map collection for about $12 million...Read more
Japanese scholar studies maps at Museum of the Big Bend
Alpine Avalanche, January 26thYuka Mizutani, a researcher from Hokkaido University in Japan, studies maps from the Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection at the Museum of the Big Bend, assisted by curator Matt Walter, right. Yuka Mizutani, a postdoctoral researcher from the Center for...Read more
Historic maps on display, for sale at Map Fair
MiamiHerald.com, January 24thThe map fair was started by staff and Joseph H. Fitzgerald, a local antique map collector. Maps will be showcased throughout the museum. The event has nurtured HistoryMiami's map collection through donations of antique maps and contributions to the...Read more
Boston Rare Maps Showcases First Antique Map of The Independent United States ...
openPR (press release), January 21st
(openPR) - MIAMI, FL – Boston Rare Maps, one of the country's premier specialists in rare and unusual antique maps, announces the acquisition of an important and highly sought-after 1784 map by Jean Lattré, noted as the first map of the independent...Read more
Entertainment in Brief: 01/20/2012
Traverse City Record Eagle, January 20thCourtyard Fine Art has vintage maps and prints on display at Books A Million in Traverse City. Fiber artist Char Bickel will open the 2012 "Talk About Art" series at the Glen Arbor Art Association. The Muteflutes will give a benefit concert Sunday,...Read more
Two Iranian works prepared for UNESCO Memory of the World Register
Tehran Times, January 15thTEHRAN -- Iran has recently completed documentation of a map collection and a book to be added to UNESCO's Memory of the World Register, a list of library collections and archive holdings of world significance. “Maps from the Qajar Period” and “The...Read more
