Series 3: Middle East, Africa, Asia, Oceania Maps

The vintage map collection is divided into three sections: United States of America, Europe and world crisis locales are: Box 1 contains 21 folders: Townsend MacCoun's series of The Island of Manhattan five related historical maps reproduced in 1909 tracing Manhattan's history from 1609 to 1783, the United States Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission's series of 14 historical maps of the original Colonies from 1775-1794, the Gettysburg National Park Commission Battle Field of Gettysburg, the Geological Society of America's Northeastern United States; Box 2 contains 30 folders: the Petermann's Geographische Mitteilung maps, Istituto Geografica Militare maps, modern road maps of the Balkens; and Box 3 contains 21 folders of more modern maps of world crisis locales - most interesting are the ones of the Middle East maps of the 1920s as well as one of some African states currently in the news: Somalia, Nigeria.