+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

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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