/r/oldmaps
Beautiful and illuminating maps from around the world, from the oldest examples known to those created around 1950.
Welcome!
We're interested in sharing interesting, beautiful or informative examples of the cartographer's trade, from their emergence in the ancient Near East up to a somewhat arbitrary end-date of 1950 A.D.
We'll happily accept historical maps! If you're posting a map, please provide a description and date in the title.
Related Subreddits
r/Maps - If you're interested in maps and cartography generally (or modern maps specifically).
r/MapPorn - For gorgeous wallpaper-size maps of all descriptions.
r/Geography - If you're curious about the geography that informed historic mapmapkers.
r/ArtHistory - For background on the artistic styles that influenced mapmakers through history.
r/History and r/MedievalHistory - For historical background.
r/MapMaking - If you're getting the feeling you'd like to try your hand at cartography.
r/Vexillology - If you're interested in more ways people symbolically stake out territory. For everything you need to know about flags.
r/ImaginaryMaps - For maps from fictional stories, books, films, television programs, video games, and comics.
r/WorldBuilding - For sharing your worlds and discussing the many aspects of creating new universes.
r/OldNews - For news that isn't new. News from history, news from the past.
r/Gis - For the technical side of cartography and geography.
r/PaperTowns - For well-crafted pictorial maps, detailed panoramic cityscapes, broad aerial vistas, intricate bird's-eye views and even full 3D reconstructions.
/r/oldmaps
44,057 Subscribers
Maryland map showing "all phases of Horse Activity", 1941
17:03 UTC
Manhattan Staten Island Long Is/and New Jersey etc. in 1777 (reprinted 1864)
03:09 UTC
Russian Empire in the 18th Century (European part) [vintage school map in š·šŗ]
13:06 UTC
Middle East Ethnic Map 1910
20:20 UTC
Found this map in the dentist office.
Not sure of the date, challenging myself to figure it out.
19:29 UTC
The "Meldeman-Plan" -- a circular map, illustrating the 1529 Ottoman siege of Vienna. Published by printer Niklas Meldeman in 1530, its anonymous artist supposedly drew this panorama whilst perched atop St. Stephen's Cathedral (pictured in centre) to document the siege around him. My favourite map.
03:26 UTC
New Holland [1802]
23:13 UTC
1878 map of Montana [7813 x 5200]
03:25 UTC
Dublin 1922 Map [3976 Ć 3000]
22:37 UTC
1890s map of Papua New Guinea [8836 x 7461]
20:47 UTC
1645 Blaeu map of Cyprus [9758 x 7334]
02:39 UTC
Arthur, Earl of Donegal, Viscount Chichester of Carrickfergus, Baron of Belfast - He had his barony of Inishowen in County Donegal registered in 1661 [6509 x 4962]
02:49 UTC
Map of the United States with territorial growth up to 1853. Color lithography
17:20 UTC
1623 map of Iceland [7546 x 4953]
07:31 UTC
Ryūsen Ishikawa - Outline Map of our Country (1689)[10,000 x 4,503]
03:35 UTC
1807 map of the Eastern Hemisphere [2224 x 2499]
05:38 UTC
1896 map of the western part of Long Island [9834 x 10145]
18:16 UTC
Balkan map around 1940-1941
10:21 UTC
My map of Manhattan made in 1864
I recently purchased this 1864 map of Manhattan and itās now my new favorite map in my collection
04:08 UTC
Map from 1893 showing how the bible describes Earth as square and stationary. Made by Prof. Orlando Ferguson from South Dakota. *Read the bottom of the map for scripture references.
02:09 UTC
1590s map of the Americas [5467 x 4047]
22:43 UTC
Balloon view, Provincetown to Boston (1879) [5534 x 3416]
11:06 UTC
1894 landform map of Colorado [7273 x 5201]
20:33 UTC
Ottoman Map of the Balkans and Asia Minor (1803) [10871 x 6864]
21:25 UTC
Germany at the time of the 30 Years' War (1618 to 1648) - published in 1875 [8447 x 7186]
00:03 UTC