A new book collects rare images from the short-lived golden age of pictorial mapping. Map-making isn’t always serious business. Between the 1920s and the 1960s, many U.S. artists embraced a form of ...

The maps in the slideshow above represent an underappreciated form of American visual art: the pictorial map. They’re maps designed to draw you in and—as often as not—try to sell you something, ...

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government in ...

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We reached out to the NYPL for more on this particular map, and Kate Cordes, the manager of their Map Division, sure did deliver. This 1926 map is a typical, and excellent, example of what we'd called ...

New York City has always attracted mapmakers. Its instantly recognizable street grid, intensely diverse populace, and iconic, ever-changing skyline have provided endless inspiration for cartographers ...

Maps illustrated are drawn primarily from the Fair and Parry collections at the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division. NMAH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.