We Love Maps

Map dated Dec. 14, 1853 which shows proposed lots for a courthouse, jail and alms house in Towson Town, Md., if it is chosen as the county seat of Baltimore County by the voters.

This old map of Charm City shows what it looked like in 1935. Click on it for more details.

This great old map shows the city of Baltimore in 1894. Historical Topographic Map Collection - source: U.S....

This old advertisement from The Baltimore Sun shows the number of new apartments available in the Baltimore area during the summer of 1969. Click on...

We love digging up old maps like this Sanborn Map from 1891 showing St. Michaels. Click on each for a larger, more detailed version. Source:...

What a beautiful old image of Baltimore. We dug this one up at the Library of Congress. Source: Library of Congress

This is a fascinating map from 1838, showing a potential route for a canal between Baltimore and Washington.

This is a fascinating old article that we came across in The Baltimore Sun. It was printed on July 26th, 1914 and we just...

This is a travel map of Baltimore from 1848. Click on it for a larger version. Source: University of Texas Libraries

What a cool old map of Maryland. This one's from 1795. Click on it for a larger version. Source: University of Pittsburgh Darlington Digital Library

Now this is one of the cooler maps that we've found. It shows the campus of the Naval Academy in 1924. Source: University of Texas...

This is a really old, 1732 map of Maryland and neighboring states by the namesake of Charm City, Lord Baltimore.

Check out this great old map of Roland Park in 1941. Roland Park in 1941

If you were fortunate enough to own an automobile in the 1920s, you might take a map like this and explore the countryside outside...

We found this great map in the Johns Hopkins digital collection. It's F. Klemm's 1873 map of Baltimore and suburbs. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library

Source: University of Maryland Here's a really old map of Maryland during the Revolution. Though, interestingly, it was the Province of Maryland during Colonial Times,...

What a terrific old map. We have struck a gold mine of excellent cartographic material with the Johns Hopkins digital collection.

Check out this cool map from the University of Maryland collection. It shows the development plan for Baltimore during the second half of the...

What a terrific old map. This one is from 1905. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library

How cool is this high-altitude photograph of the city. Click on it for a much larger version and tell us what you...

Here's a cool old map from 1877 showing the layout of Johns Hopkins Hospital. So cool. Source: Johns Hopkins Sheridan Library