Historical Maps

Special Collections maintains and preserves the university’s rare maps and atlases of Long Island and New York State dating back to the seventeenth century with Willem Janszoon Blaeu's New Belgium and New England (1640).
The map and atlas collections housed in the department can be identified by searching the catalog and limiting results to the location of “Special Collections” and the format to “maps.”

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The general Map Collection is located on the second floor of the Frank Melville Jr. Memorial Library.

Recommended resources:

• Sanborn Digital Maps (Geo Edition): for New York State (licensed database accessible to SBU students, faculty, and staff)

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: a searchable collection of more than 50,000 maps and atlases

• Old Maps Online: a gateway to historical maps from all over the world

• New York Public Library: New York state, county and city atlases

• The Mapping of New York State: A Study in the History of Cartography by David Yehling Allen


Image:
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, and Joan Blaeu. Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. [Amsterdami]: [I. and C. Blaeu], 1640.