We Love Maps

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. Source: Library of Congress

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. Source: University of Pittsburgh Darlington...

Check out this great old map of Roland Park in 1941. Source: University of Maryland This is what it looks like today, courtesy of Google. Thanks to...

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. This one shows Baltimore...