+Sources for Charts, Maps and Images

Ordnance Survey Maps – National Library of Scotland

Good source of historical OS and other maps at Vision of Britain

British Library 

Maps and charts (rmg.co.uk)

Foxearth Local History – local maps

L Brown Collection – no re-use.

David Rumsey Collection – excellent.

Royal Collection

Rijks Museum

National Library of Spain

OMNIA – Europe’s Culture in One Place – should access everything including Spanish Library.

Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana

Gallica (bnf.fr) – French National Library – excellent.

University of Utrecht – A huge amount of Open Access documents accessible by alphabetic index. Possibly a treasure trove but too big to look through. Wagenhaer and Blau Atlas’s are but two.

Library of Congress

National Archives NextGen Catalog

Wikimedia Commons

Vintage Maps – excellent selection: (Grahame Spence Charts – If you like to download the image of this map with a resolution of 1200 pixels, please follow the link below. You can use this image for publication on your personal or commercial websites for free if you set a link to this website. If you need photographs with a higher resolution, please contact us.)

Good selection – no re-use.

Some Charts – useful information.

AGAS map of 17C London

Mapco collection

Tree Search – Ancient Tree Inventory (woodlandtrust.org.uk)

Geohack – sort of map index.

Images

Search, download and print PICRYL – Public Domain Media Search Engine images, albums, collections

Wikimedia Commons

Aerial Photo Explorer – Over 400,000 aerial photos in Historic England’s digitised collections | Historic England

Images at US Library of Congress

Stories | Wellcome Collection

Online Library of Selected Images

Archives of Aerial Images

IWM GERMAN SECOND WORLD WAR AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE COLLECTION (not online))

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized US archive, detail on target areas.

https://www.alliedairforceresearch.com/post/hitlers-uk-pictures not easy to search.

https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/04deb770-003d-38a9-8fb5-5f802270a13f leads to this Search | NCAP – National Collection of Aerial Photography nothing useful for 1944.

Geographic Military Maps and Aerial Photographs, ca. 1943–1980 not yet online.

Luftfoto.ru

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