historical maps
Dated geographic documents
Historical maps are maps made in or depicting earlier time periods.
The term covers both antique maps valued as artifacts and modern maps showing past conditions—boundaries, settlements, or terrain as they once existed.
The historical maps showed how the city's shoreline had been extended through landfill.
Cartographic historians distinguish maps that are old from maps that show old things.
- road mapsPrinted route diagrams
- medieval mapsPeriod cartography before Columbus
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