16th- Early 20th Century Maps of Africa

Monday July 02nd 2007
Filed Under Africa, Map Collections 

Housed at Northwestern University, this web site has an extensive collection of maps collected for the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.  There are over 113 maps dating from the 16th Century that you can search for by keyword, cartographer, date or place of publication.  To see all the maps in the collection, simply hit the “search” button without typing in a search term.  This returns a listing of all the maps with detailed information about each map.  You can sort the list by a variety of parameters including the date and the geographic place.  Maps load into a new window with tools to zoom in, zoom out, pan and print are available.



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