Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy ™

Welcome to the first GIS-linked, address-searchable maps of 19th and early 20th century America. You can browse maps and illustrations from our collection of more than 200,000. Our contemporaneous directories can be searched by family names, occupations, or addresses from the past 250 years.

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	Browse U.S. Maps Our core collection includes cadastral maps (those showing land and property owners), ranging from cities and towns to county plates. Included in many atlases are original histories, illustrations, and even historical photographs of residents.
	Browse Osher Maps We have partnered with the Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine to reproduce their world renowned archive. Dating from the early 15th to mid 19th centuries, these are some of the most beautiful, historically significant, rarely reproduced maps in existence.
	Browse World Maps A collection of maps covering the world through time. This collection is divided up by modern geographic boundries, therefore many antiquarian maps may span various classifications.
	Browse Bird's Eye Views This collection contains aerial perspective maps, some of which were sketched from tethered balloons looking down at the town. Others are artist renderings from the highest point on the landscape.
	Browse Charts & Special Collections An eclectic mix of maps, including decorative plates, portraits, and lithographs, as well as nautical and topographical maps.