Look But Don’t Touch involves both an extensive online exhibition, and a display at the Map Collection in Harvard University’s Pusey Library. David Weimer, librarian for cartographic collections and ...

Since the 1990s, collector David Rumsey has digitized and made freely available his thousands of historical maps; his site has long been one of the best resources for cartography. While his ...

It just got way, way easier to search and browse the US Geological Survey’s collection of historical topographic maps, thanks to a new online map viewer. These maps—more than 178,000 of them—date back ...

When you visit the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University's Green Library, if you can, take the stairs. Yes, you'll have to spiral up three flights, but the wallpaper will give you plenty of ...

Robert Berlo on one of his many road trips. Maps from Robert Berlo’s collection, donated after his death to the Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at Stanford University. A detail from ...

Some rulers of old had some pretty unique (or unusual) hobbies: the Roman emperor Heliogabalus collected cobwebs, Ming dynasty emperor Zhu Houzhao cultivated an exotic animal menagerie that he would ...

John E. Feathers, right, who died in February, left behind a vast map collection that will be donated to the Los Angeles Public Library. Here, he is shown with his father, John Feathers, left, and his ...