From the Index
Maps tell stories about how people understand, measure, navigate, and imagine the world. This growing collection brings together historic maps and map-like objects, with descriptions, creators, dates, source institutions, and rights information that help place each work in context.
Field Notes
William A. Sparkman’s county-surveyor map puts Pasco’s roads, railroads, schools, power lines, villages, and administrative districts onto a township-and-range framework. For local readers, its appeal lies in recognizing…
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This map organizes Florida around phosphate deposits while retaining towns, water features, and railroads. Its catalog description emphasizes compilation from land numbers, making it particularly relevant to readers…
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Here the township grid becomes a framework for deciding which land could be settled. The catalog records instructions that distinguish odd-numbered sections from even-numbered sections and describe homestead…
Field Notes
Streets and individual land parcels organize this early map of St. Petersburg. The land-and-improvement company’s involvement makes it a useful partner to maps that present cities mainly as…
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County colors are only the beginning of this unusually rich atlas map. Its survey grid, lighthouses, offshore depth line, and Gulf Stream notes give visitors several scales of…
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This map uses ranges, townships, and sections to show a large body of land associated with the Florida Land and Immigration Company and railroad bondholders. Illustrations and information…
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This subdivision map turns part of a surveyed section into orange-grove parcels near Belmore. Streets, owners’ names, and sold or reserved lots give the sheet a practical sales…
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This nautical chart shifts attention from the streets around Tampa Bay to the water itself. Soundings in Hillsborough Bay and Old Tampa Bay make depth part of the…
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Topography, phosphate deposits, and areas of artesian flow share this statewide sheet. The combination gives readers several reasons to look beneath Florida’s apparently simple surface. Towns, railroads, and…
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Gavino Gutierrez’s map places the Ybor City area within Township 29 South, Range 19 East and identifies landowners as well as water features and settlements. It offers a…
