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Our January Map of the Month is this 1916 map of “The Theatre of War in Mesopotamia”, displaying Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Syria) and Persia (modern-day Iran) as they appeared in the midst of W...

Our December Map of the Month is this French map titled “New Mexico, with the Northern Part of Old, Or New Spain”. Among the oldest maps in our collection, this map was made by Rigobert Bonne and was ...

Our November Map of the Month is this illustrated map titled “Grand Canyon” by Uruguayan-American artist Jo Mora. The map depicts approximately one fourth of the Grand Canyon, focusing on the portion ...

Our October Map of the Month is this 1963 map titled “Arizona’s Lost Mines and Ghost Towns”. It features some of Arizona’s most famous lost mines and ghost towns as well as the more obscure, and it in...

It’s been one month since Sun Devils came back to campus after nearly 16 months of remote learning. To celebrate our return to in-person learning, our September Map of the Month is this 1980 illustrat...

Our July Map of the Month is this 1967 Soviet lunar map from the series titled Polnaya Karta Luny Complete Map of the Moon. The series is made up of nine sheets that display several magnified lunar qu...

Our April Map of the Month is this 1909 Linguistic Map of Mexico and Central America by Cyrus Thomas and J.R. Swanton. It displays the geographic distribution of a variety of Mesoamerican languages an...

The index for our new digital image collection, the Poor’s Railroad and Utilities Maps collection, is available to the public. ...

Our March 2021 Map of the Month is this 1897 Pilot Chart of the Great Lakes by J.E. Craig and A.C. Roberts. It includes a detailed navigational map of the lakes as well as a variety of information on ...