Maps and Atlas Collection
What We Own
The 25,000 maps and atlases housed in the Society's Archives are an invaluable resource for research in the history of North American exploration, economic and social development, environmental change, and genealogy. The majority of the collection focuses on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the United States, and Canada. About 80 percent of the collection pre-dates 1900.
The collection includes 17th and 18th century French and British
maps of North America, Wisconsin plat maps and atlases, Sanborn
Fire Insurance Company maps for Wisconsin, Wisconsin
Bird's-Eye Views, and United
States General Land Office survey plats and surveyors' notes.
Wisconsin topographical maps, military maps, and a wide variety
of state, city, county, highway and railroad maps of the United
States and Canada round out the collection.
Help Preserve History
The Society continues to collect materials documenting United States and Midwestern history and social and economic development, Midwestern and Wisconsin plat maps and atlases, bird's eye views, and war maps are of special interest.
If you would like to donate maps or atlases to the Society, visit the Archives Collection Development Bureau for more information.
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