50 Rare and Fascinating
Historical Maps of Washington DC

This CD contains 50 rare antique maps of Washington DC in MrSid format. This format allows you to see the entire map or drill down for the smallest details. If you printed one of these maps at full size, it would be about 36"x36" or larger (way more than can fit on a computer screen) so you can imagine how much detail they all have. (MrSID software is included on the CD.)

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The table below shows the description and a small image of each map on this incredible history CD.

Map of the city of Washington D.C. : established as the permanent seat of the government of the U.S. of Am. / James Keily, surveyor. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Camden, N.J. : Lloyd Van Derveer, 1851. NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, built-up areas, and major buildings. Also covers Georgetown. Includes inset "Map of the District of Columbia," statistical tables, and ill.

District of Columbia.. Bradford, T. G. 1802-1887. (Thomas Gamaliel), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Boston : T.G. Bradford, 1835] NOTES Shows major streets and buildings. Indexed for points of interest.

Topographical map of the District of Columbia / surveyed in the years 1856 '57 '58 & '59 by A. Boschke ; engraved by D. McClelland, Washington, D.C. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington : D. McClelland, Blanchard & Mohun, 1861. NOTES Partial cadastral map showing some householders' names, individual buildings, and vegetation. Relief shown by contours and hachures. Depths shown by contours and soundings. Also covers Virginia shoreline zone.

Johnson's Georgetown and the city of Washington : the capital of the United States of America / by Johnson and Ward.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York] : Johnson and Ward, [1862] NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, extent of built-up area, and major buildings. Includes ill.

Map of fortifications and defenses of Washington.. Hodasevich, R. A. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1865?] NOTES In left lower margin: Taken from a map issued by the War Department in 1865.

Plan of the city of Washington : seat of government of the United States.. Elliot, William, 1773?-1837. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C. : S.A. Elliot, 1822] NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, existing and planned government buildings, and radial distances from Capitol. Includes indexed table of points of interest.

District of Columbia and the seat of war on the Potomac.. Bohn, Casimir. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : C. Bohn, [186-?] (Baltimore : E. Sachse & Co.) NOTES Low-angle bird's-eye view. Shows cities of Washington and Alexandria in foreground. Includes index of military positions with regiment names.

Plan der stad Washington : bestemd tot de hoofdstad van America, en ter bestendige verblijfplaats van het Congres, naa het jaar 1800. . Kroe, A. van der. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Amsterdam : s.n., 1793] NOTES Shows proposed government buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown.

Plan of the city of Washington : now building for the metropolis of America, and established as the permanent residence of Congress after the year 1800 / B. Baker sculp. Islington.. Bent, William, 1747-1823. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London?] : Published by W. Bent, 1793. NOTES Relief shown by hachures. Also covers Georgetown.

A map of Fairfax County, and parts of Loudoun and Prince William Counties, Va., and the District of Columbia] / copied by J. Paul Hoffmann, Top'l. Office, A.N.Va. ; approved S. Howell Brown, 1st Lt. Engs. Troops, in chg. Topl. Dept. A.N.V., March 29th 1864.. NOTES Relief show by hachures. Shows western Washington D.C. region, including fortifications and names of some residents.

Extract of military map of N.E. Virginia showing forts and roads.. United States. War Dept. Engineer Bureau. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.] : Engineer Bureau, War Dept., 1865. NOTES Covers Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Eastern corner of D.C. off map. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Also shows rural householders' names and vegetation.

Plan of the city of Washington : seat of government of the United States / drawn from the original plan adopted and signed by J. Adams, president of the U.S., by W. Elliot.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1835?] NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, existing and proposed government buildings, and radial distances from Capitol. Includes ill. of Capitol and indexed table of points of interest.

Map of the located route of the Metropolitan Rail Road and the adjacent country comprising the District of Columbia and the counties of Montgomery, Frederick, and Washington in the state of Maryland, Francis Dodge president M.R.R. Company, Edmund French, chief engineer, W. R. Hutton draughtsman, completed April 30, 1855 from surveys made in 1853 and 1854.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, 1855] SUMMARY Topographical map of part of Maryland showing relief by hachures, drainage, cities and towns, canals, the Washington Aqueduct, roads, and railroads with milege on the main survey line. Chartered in 1853. NOTES Scale 1:126,720.

Catalogue of points of historic interest : [Washington D.C. and metropolitan area] / selected and marked by the Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest for the Thirty-Sixth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, Washington, 1902.. Grand Army of the Republic. Committee on Marking Points of Historic Interest. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington?] : The Committee, [1902?] NOTES Shows Civil War hospitals and fortifications. Includes text, directory of committee members, and ill. Descriptive index to points of interest and directories on verso. Map showing location of war-time hospitals -- Map of fortifications and defenses of Washington.

The national capital, Washington City, D.C.. A. Sachse & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Baltimore [1883?] NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Shows Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, and Potomac waterfront.

The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Balti[more] A. Sachse & Co., 1884. NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Bird's-eye view. Includes illus., text, and advertisements.

Birdseye view of the National Capital, including the site of the proposed World's Exposition of 1892 and Permanent Exposition of the Three Americas / lith. by A. Hoen & Co., Baltimore.. Johnson, E. Kurtz. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington? D.C.] : E. K. Johnson, c1888. NOTES Oriented with north toward the upper left.

James E. Clements' map of Washington City and surrounding country.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : James E. Clements, [1891?] (Washington : Andrew B. Graham, lithographer) NOTES Reference: Stephenson. Cartography of northern Virginia, pl. 88 Includes text and col. ill.

New railroad map of the state of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia. Compiled and drawn by Frank Arnold Gray.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Philadelphia, 1876. SUMMARY Shows drainage, canals, stations, cities and towns, counties, canals, roads completed, narrow gauge and proposed railroads with names of lines. Includes list of railroads. NOTES Scale 1:633,600.

Map of the city of Washington / drawn by F.C. De Krafft, city engineer.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington, D.C.?] : Wm. M. Morrison, 1846. NOTES Shows block numbers, wards, and government buildings. Indexed for points of interest.

Plan of the city of Washington and territory of Columbia / engraved by W. & D. Lizars, Edin'r.. Lizars, W. H. 1788-1859. (William Home), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Edinburgh? : s.n., 1819?] NOTES Includes ill. of the Capitols at Richmond and Washington.

Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C.--the nation's capital / [drawn by] H.H. Green ; made for the B.S. Reynolds Company.. Green, H. H. CREATED/PUBLISHED Buffalo : Matthews Northrup Works, c1916. NOTES Low-angle view. Oriented with north toward the upper left.

The nation's capital : [Washington D.C.] / O. Yates del.. Weller, M. I. 1846-1915. (Michael Ignatius), CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington?] : M.I. Weller, c1909 (Washington : Norris Peters Co.) NOTES Shows radial distances, locations of "Committee on Public Comfort" and "Inaugural Committee," and block numbers. Includes list of presidential inaugurations, directory of "Inaugural Committee, March 4, 1909," street width directory, and U.S. coat of arms.

Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. [Drawn and engr. By J. Schedler, N.Y. Sarony, Major & Knapp liths., N.Y. . CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York; Paris; London W. Schauss c1861] NOTES Scale ca. 1:820,000.

Washington, the beautiful capital of the nation / [compliments of] Baltimore and Ohio, America's first railroad, Washington's first railroad. . Olsen, William. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : Olsen, c1923. NOTES Perspective map not drawn to scale. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Bird's-eye view. Includes text and index to points of interest.

Panorama of the seat of war. Birds eye view of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia Drawn from nature and lith. by John Bachmann.. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York. A Rumpf, Publisher. Agent for John Bachmann's publications c1861. NOTES Scale not given. Battle sites are noted by crossed swords. This issue has clouds in the sky and smoke over the Manassas battlefield.

View of Washington City.. E. Sachse & Co. CREATED/PUBLISHED Balt[im]o[re] : Lith. by E. Sachse & Co., [1871] NOTES Low-angle bird's-eye view of central Washington toward the west and northwest with The Capitol in foreground. Oriented with north toward the upper right.

Map of portions of Virginia and Maryland, extending from Baltimore to Strasburg, and from Washington to Gettysburg, with concentric circles at 5-mile intervals centering on Washington and on Baltimore. CREATED/PUBLISHED [186-] NOTES Relief shown by hachures.

Plan of the city of Washington / Thackara & Vallance sc.. L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Philadelphia : s.n., 1792]

Map of Washington, D.C., and environs : with marginal numbers and measuring tape attachment for instantly locating points of interest within a radius of twenty miles from the Capitol / by Axel Silversparre, C.E.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington : R.E. Whitman, c1887. NOTES Covers part of D.C., not "a radius of twenty miles from the Capitol." Depths shown by soundings. Includes inset, sector diagram, and source materials notes.

View of Georgetown D.C. / lith. and printed in colors by E. Sachse & Co.. TED/PUBLISHED Baltimore : Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co., [1855] SUMMARY View of Georgetown, D.C. looking west with the Potomac River on the left.

Within sight of the White House : section of Washington, D.C., known as "Hooker's Division," which contains 50 saloons and 109 bawdy-houses--list of 61 places where liquor is sold with government [sic] but without city licenses.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington? : s.n., 189-?] NOTES Cadastral map. Newspaper clipping. Includes text, directory of unlicensed premises, and index to points of interest.

B.H. Warner & Co.'s Map showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Washington and suburbs : locating the public buildings and places of interest / prepared by A.G. Gedney, Post Building, Washington, D.C. ; presented with compliments of B.H. Warner & Company.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington] : The Company, c1886. NOTES Shows block numbers. Selected points of interest and relief shown pictorially. Includes advertisements.

Panoramic view of Washington City : from the new dome of the Capitol, looking east / drawn from nature and print. in colors by E. Sachse & Co. . CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, D.C. : Published by Casimir Bohn, c1857. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking east with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground.

Plan of the city of Washington.. Good, J. CREATED/PUBLISHED [London] : J. Good, [1793] NOTES At upper left: Literary Magazine. From Literary magazine and British review, Jan. 1793, opp. p. 49 (AP3.L62). Includes latitude/longitude statement and coat-of-arms.

View of Washington / drawn from nature and on stone by E. Sachse ; lith. and print in colors by E. Sachse & Comp.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Baltimore, Md. : Published and sold by E. Sachse & Co., c1852. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking west with the U.S. Capitol in the foreground.

Topography of the federal city, 1791 : [Washington D.C.] / by Don A. Hawkins, Washington, D.C.. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1990. NOTES Ms. map with original streets, roads, buildings, Washington city boundary (old), and hydrography in col. pencil on photocopy (ozalid) base. Relief shown by contours and shading.

Topographical map of Virginia between Washington and Manassas Junction.. Magnus, Charles. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York, Chs. Magnus, [1861?] NOTES Scale ca. 1:270,000. Reference: LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 451 Indicates Union and Confederate positions at "battle of Bull Run, July 21st 1861," Union encampments, towns, roads, the street pattern of Washington, railroads, rivers, and relief by hachures. Inset: Leesburg to Harpers Ferry. "Panoramic view of the fortifications around Washington" appears above the map.

Birds eye view of the city of Washington from the dome of the U.S. Capitol : Looking west / Lith. & print by A. Sachse & Co.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Balto., Md. : A. Sachse & Co., [between 1860 and 1890] SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. with vignettes of prominent government and cultural buildings, and monuments depicted along the sides and bottom of the image.

Esso pictorial guide to Washington, D.C., and vicinity : 1942.. General Drafting Company. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York?] : Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, [1942] NOTES "142." Selected buildings shown pictorially on city map.

Part of map of portions of the milit'y dep'ts of Washington, Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and north eastern Virginia / compiled in the Bureau of Topographical Eng'rs, War Department &c., July 1861.. United States. Topographical Bureau. OTHER TITLES Map of portions of the milit'y dep'ts of Washington, Pennsylvania, Annapolis and north eastern Virginia NOTES Relief shown by shading. Shows Washington D.C. region, including western part of Maryland and northeastern Virginia. Does not show Pennsylvania with the exception of Gettysburg.

Army map of the seat of war in Virginia, showing the battle fields, fortification, etc. on & near the Potomac River Drawn by J. G. Bruff. Lith. of P. S. Duval & Son, Philada.. Bruff, Joseph Goldsborough, 1804-1889. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York and Washn., D.C., J. Disturnell and Hudson Taylor, c1861. NOTES Scale ca. 1:183,000. Map of the Potomac River and vicinity from Harpers Ferry to Swan Point showing towns, roads, railroads, names and boundaries of counties, drainage, and relief by hachures. Principal Union and Confederate positions are marked by small flags or underlined in blue and red respectively. List of 33 forts defending Washington is in the right corner.

Map of the seat of war!. Louis Prang and Company. CREATED/PUBLISHED Boston c1861. NOTES Various scales. Reference: LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 17 Containing a map of the vicinity of Washington, Baltimore, Harper's Ferry and Annapolis, with five mile distance lines from Washington. Map showing the railroad routes, coast lines and forts, between Boston and Norfolk harbor; map of Norfolk harbor, Fort Monroe and vicinity, with 1 mile distance lines from Ft. Monroe; Map of the vicinity of Richmond. Small map of the Atlantic states, showing the R.road connections; diagram of the camp at Cairo. Plan of Haper's Ferry! Portraits of Gen. B.F. Butler, the late Col. E. Ellsworth, &c. Includes portraits of Andrew Jackson and Gen. Winfield Scott rather than those of Gen. B. F. Butler and Col. E. Ellsworth.

The City of Washington : Birds-Eye view from the Potomac-looking North.. Currier & Ives. CREATED/PUBLISHED New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. SUMMARY Bird's-eye view of Washington, D.C. looking north from the Potomac River with the Washington Monument in the foreground; prominent building and place names are listed below the image.

Washington, the Mall and vicinity, public buildings occupied by various government activities : 1917 / prepared by the Public Buildings Commission ; made under the direction of Colonel W.W. Harts and Colonel C.S. Ridley ; James G. Langdon, city planning designer ; drawn by K. Hilding Beij.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington : U.S. Senate, 1918?] (Washington : Norris Peters Co.) NOTES Cadastral map showing government buildings, all other buildings, and public lands.

The monumental and commercial center of the national capital and the surrounding residential neighborhoods : three dimensional map of central Washington / prepared by Joseph Passonneau & Partners ; drawn by Vitaly Gevorkian and David Akopian.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, DC : Joseph Passonneau and Partners, [1996] NOTES Axonometric aerial view of central area bounded by 30th St. N.W., P St. N.W.-N.E., 3rd St. N.E.-S.E., M St. S.E.-S.W., and Boundary Channel S.W. Shows all buildings including individual row houses, roadways, walkways, parklands, open spaces, and individual trees.

Plan of the city of Washington in the territory of Columbia : ceded by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by them established as the seat of their government, after the year MDCCC / engrav'd by Sam'l Hill, Boston ; in order to execute this plan, Mr. Ellicott drew a true meridional line .... Ellicott, Andrew, 1754-1820. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Boston : s.n., 1792] NOTES Shows block numbers and proposed government buildings.

Plan of the city intended for the permanent seat of the government of t[he] United States : projected agreeable to the direction of the President of the United States, in pursuance of an act of Congress passed the sixteenth day of July, MDCCXC, "establishing the permanent seat on the bank of the Potowmac" : [Washington D.C.] / by Peter Charles L'Enfant.. CREATED/PUBLISHED [Washington : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1887]

Dotted line map of Washington, D.C., 1791, before Aug. 19th].. L'Enfant, Pierre Charles, 1754-1825. CREATED/PUBLISHED [1791] NOTES Shows survey lines and proposed public squares parks. Relief shown by hachures. Oriented with north toward the upper left.

Real estate map of the Metropolitan Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company between Washington, D.C., and Rockville, Md., and adjacent land holdings : from latest official authorities & actual surveys / by Fava Naeff & Co., civil engineers & architects ... Washington, D.C.. CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington : Francis R. Fava Jr., 1890. SUMMARY Shows drainage, park lands, streets, roads, railroads, some buildings, and names of property owners. Includes railroad profile. NOTES Partial cadastral map showing owners' names and acreages of larger landholdings in districts adjacent to the B&O R.R. in Washington D.C. and Montgomery County (Md.). Oriented with north toward the upper left.

This is a must have collection for any map history buff!

This CD is created in PC format using an HTML menu to navigate. To use this CD, you must either be using a PC or a Macintosh in PC emulation mode. Viewing the maps also requires installing a software program called MrSID which is included on the disk. This is a PC based program and will run on a Macintosh in PC emulation mode.