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Old Maps of Indiana – Indiana Historical Maps

Old Maps of Indiana - Indiana Historical Maps

Old maps of Indiana, Indiana historical maps, historic gazetteers and directories. Free map collections and suggested individual maps.

Collections of Old Indiana Maps and Atlases

Indiana Historical Maps and Atlases

Historic MapWorks

Historic MapWorks provides an enormous collection of online maps and atlases. According to the site, the state of Indiana collection contains 508 atlases, and within the atlases are over 25,800 historical maps, illustrations and histories.

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17 Panoramic maps or Birds-eye Views of Various Indiana Cities and Towns

Library of Congress
Various publishers and years of publication

Many of these Indiana historical maps are highly detailed pictures showing all buildings. The viewer at this site enables high-resolution zooms.

Old Indiana Maps Online

This is a collaborative portal for accessing a number of online map collections worldwide. U.S. collections include;
The David Rumsey Collection
Harvard Library Collection
New York Public Library Collection
Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center.

Historical Indiana Maps of Interest

Map of Indiana 1817

David Rumsey Map Collection
Baltimore: Fielding Lucas Jr. 1817

See the Menu at the top of every page for Directories of Free Online Fiction and NonFiction Books, Magazines, and more, on 400 pages like this at Century Past

Map of Indiana 1821

Indiana Historical Society Collections
Philadelphia: A. Finley 1821

See our Century Past collected links to free online map sites.  We have 5 pages of links: for the U.S., North America, UK & Ireland, Worldwide, & Military maps.

Map of Indiana 1836

David Rumsey Collection
Philadelphia: Henry S. Tanner 1836

A New Map of Indiana with its Roads & Distances 1847

Lewis University
Philadelphia: Burroughs 1847

Map of Indiana 1848

David Rumsey Map Collection
Philadelphia: Henry S. Tanner 1848

Historical Maps of Indiana

Local newspaper archives online here at Century Past

Map of the State of Indiana Exhibiting the Lands Ceded by the Indian Tribes to the United States 1881

Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana – Booklet Keyed to the Map

Indiana Historical Society Collections
Washington, D.C. Govt. Printing Office 1881

The first link is a map of Indiana showing the various land tracts that were acquired by the U.S. Government from Indians over time. The second link is an accompanying booklet that provides dates and background info for each of the numbered land acquisitions.

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Map of Indiana 1897

David Rumsey Map Collection
Chicago: Rand McNally 1897

Map of the State of Indiana 1927

David Rumsey Map Collection
Chicago: Rand McNally 1927

Map Illustrating the Pioneer Periods in Indiana

Indiana Historical Society Collections
Indiana: Society of Indiana Pioneers 1932

Mills and Boon free online reads

Shell Highway Map of Indiana 1956

David Rumsey Map Collection
Chicago: Shell Oil Company 1956

Indian Land Cessions in Indiana. Indiana Map 1

Indian Land Cessions in Indiana. Indiana Map 2

18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology: Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress

Smithsonian Institution: Bureau of American Ethnology
GPO 1896-97

The 18th Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology contains, in the latter portion of Volume 2, a “Schedule of Treaties and Acts of Congress Authorizing Allotments of Land in Severalty”. Included in this is a “Schedule of Indian Land Sessions” that provides summary descriptions of each case throughout the U.S. in which a tribe ceded land (whether by sale or not) to the U.S. Federal government. The Schedule is followed by maps of every U.S. state that contained such land cessions. These maps show the locations of land ceded. A number on each land cession corresponds to an entry in the “Schedule of Indian Land Sessions”, which begins on page 648 of the Annual Report.

How to use this: Click the link for Indiana Map 1, which is at images 560-561 of the Report, or Map 2, at 564-565. Note the number of the land cession you wish to read about, and search for that number in the Schedule (3rd link above) that begins on page 648 of the Annual Report. This Schedule is organized as a table that spans 2 pages, so look on odd-numbered pages for the land cession number that corresponds with the map location. The preceding page contains a description for that cession, plus a reference to the legal statute.

19th Century Indiana Gazetteers and Directories

Mademoiselle magazine back issues

The State of Indiana Delineated

Geographical, historical, statistical & commercial, and a brief view of the internal improvements, geology, education, travelling routes, &c., prepared to accompany Colton’s Map

Colton, J.H.
NY: Colton 1838

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