Maps and Atlases Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. See maps and atlases depicting the changing landscape of Seattle and other areas in the Pacific Northwest. Take a look at our historic map resources page to browse maps by location.
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Map of the City of Seattle, Washington Territory, Showing Its Additions and the Walla Walla Rail Road, 1875
Map depicting land claims of many of Seattle's founders such as Denny, Bell and Yesler.
Identifier: spl_maps_2467399
Date: 1875
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Chart of the World shewing the tracks of the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.
This map shows the tracks of the vessels of the Exploring Squadron, combined, and acting separately: the direction of the winds; the currents, their direction and velocity; the isothermal lines for every five degrees of temperature, from the point of perpetual congelation to the Torrid Zone.
Identifier: spl_maps_367358_01
Date: 1844
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Industrial, Commercial, and Residential Map, 1926
Map depicting industrial, commercial and residential zones along with parks and cemetaries. Also marked are areas predominently populated by African Americans, Japanese, Chinese and Italians.
Identifier: spl_maps_2479649
Date: 1926
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Map Part of the Island of Hawaii Sandwich Islands shewing the craters and eruptions of May and June 1840, 1841
This map exhibits the two remarkable volcanic mountains visited by the Expedition, with their numerous craters, together with the great eruption of 1840, and the track of the party to and from the crater of Mku-weo-weo, on the top of Mauna Loa.
Identifier: spl_maps_367358_03
Date: 1841
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Map of the City of Seattle and Adjacent Territory Accompanying Report of Municipal Plans Commission, 1911
Map showing proposed city improvements under the Plan of Seattle, commonly known as the Bogue Plan. Designed by Virgil Bogue, Seattle's municipal plans director, the Bogue Plan proposed a series of improvements aimed at beautifying the city and making it making it more cohesive after years of rapid growth and industrialization. The plan worked in tandem with the Olmsted Brothers new system of parks, begun in 1903, and proposed new government buildings, an improved city center and an interurban road connecting the city together. The plan was rejected by voters in 1912.
Identifier: spl_maps_2444648_1
Date: 1911
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Municipal Plans Commission of the City of Seattle map showing Lake Washington-Bellevue-Renton Waterfront District, 1911
Map showing proposed city improvements under the Plan of Seattle, commonly known as the Bogue Plan. Designed by Virgil Bogue, Seattle's municipal plans director, the Bogue Plan proposed a series of improvements aimed at beautifying the city and making it making it more cohesive after years of rapid growth and industrialization. The plan worked in tandem with the Olmsted Brothers new system of parks, begun in 1903, and proposed new government buildings, an improved city center and an interurban road connecting the city together. The plan was rejected by voters in 1912.
Identifier: spl_maps_2465533_17
Date: 1911
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Map of the Oregon Territory by the U.S. Ex. Ex., 1841
This map embraces the United State Possessions west of the Rocky Mountains, between the parallels of 42 degrees and 54 degrees 40�N., and also shows Fremont�s Pass through the Rocky Mountains.
Identifier: spl_maps_367358_04
Date: 1841
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Thornton Creek Watershed, A Bicycle Tour, ca. 1983
Map showing bicycle route through the Thornton Creek Watershed along with information about environmental problems facing the area.
Identifier: spl_maps_2375421
Date: 1983
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Mammalia mirror
Helmi Juvonen was born in Butte, Montana on January 17, 1903. She worked in many media including printmaking, painting and paper-craft. She attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle where she met artist Mark Tobey with whom she was famously obsessed. Although she was diagnosed as a manic-depressive in 1930, she gained wide appreciation in the Northwest for her linocut prints depicting Northwest Indian people and tribal ceremonies. She worked with a number of artists on the Public Works of Art Project including Fay Chong and Morris Graves. Over the years, her mental health deteriorated and in 1960 she was declared a ward of the state and was committed to Oakhurst Convalescent Center. She was much beloved and had many friends and benefactors (including Wes Wehr) and was able to have exhibitions despite the confinement. She died in 1985.
Identifier: spl_art_J989Ma
Date: n.d.
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Claiming Space, Seattle's Lesbian & Gay Historical Geography, 2004
Map depicting significant locations relating to gay and lesbian history in Seattle.
Identifier: spl_maps_2449778
Date: 2004
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