Rare old maps of the United States.
Rare Houston-published antique map of Harris County, Texas, covering the Houston metropolitan area, published by Patrick Whitty, Houston's main surveyor at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. The map extends from Katy in the west to...
![[Manuscript Map of Oil Development at High Island, Texas]](/map/small/66465.jpg)
An interesting manuscript map of High Island, Texas, one of the first big oil strikes after Spindletop. Showing drilling blocks in the process of being developed. The map includes notes about a spring and "foot ridge" (?) The map offers an...
Promoting Railroads To French Investors Fine example of this rare promotional map centered on Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, published to attract French investors in the issuance of bonds to construct the Cherryvale, Oklahoma & Texas Railway. This...
A Colossal, Virtually Unknown Wall Map of Dallas, Published After Publication of George Kessler's Plan For Modernizing Dallas The present map measuring approximately 7.5 feet x 7.5 feet, is the only other large format map of Dallas published before...
Scarce map showing Texas and adjacent regions as they would have been in the 18th Century. The map was prepared by Herbert Bolton, one of the most prolific and important writer/scholars of the 20th Century. The map shows the major Indian tribes and a...
Extremely Rare Early Texas Oil Promotional Map, Featuring the First Oil Fields of the Texas Oil Industry. Separately issued promotional map printed in black (showing geographical features including towns and railroads) and red (showing the oil leases...
![[Early Texas Aeronautical Navigation Map] Aeronautical Map For Cross Country . . Drawn by Cpl. V.G. Smylie Aero Squadron, Ellington Field](/map/small/59678.jpg)
Rare Early Aeronautical Map of Texas - 252nd Aero Squadron - Ellington Field Rare aviation map prepared by Vernon Guy Smylie of the 252nd Aero Squadron, Ellington Field, in Houston, Texas. The map covers an approximately 9500 square mile area of...
Richly Illustrated Oil Promotional Progress Bulletin --THERE NEVER WAS A TIME WHEN THIS STOCK LOOKED SO ATTRACTIVE! Promotional brochure for the Mitchel Production Company, promoting investments in its wells in Eastland, County, Texas. The map...
Early Texas Oil Map. Scarce oil map covering all of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas along with portions of New Mexico, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. It prominently shows oil fields, gas fields, and "oil indications" in red overprinting with large...
![[Texas Oil Promotional - North Texas] Ablon Predicts 20 for 1](/map/small/69496.jpg)
Early Texas oil promotional broadsheet, showing the location of the sites at which George Ablon was then seeking investors. The map illustrates a 400-acre leasehold, identified as "Collins #1", with an area above reserved for Ralph-Dudley. The...
![[Oil in Culberson County] Location of Royalty owned by H.J. McMullen](/map/small/69430.jpg)
Interesting pictorial map of Culberson County, Texas, promoting investment in the area then being explored by H.J. Mullen. The map focuses on the areas north of the Texas & Pacific Railroads which the promoter illustrates as being under...
Rare Texas Centennial Pictorial Map, published by the MKT Katy Lines. The map highlights six destinations, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Galveston, San Antonio, and Fort Worth. The lively pictorial maps shows regional vignettes featuring the commerce and...
Decorative promotional map of Tonto's Southwest Texas, advertising for the Gordon Baking Company. Highlights the region along the Rio Grande which was the fictional home of the Lone Ranger and Tonto.
Racialized promotional pamphlet and map produced by the Industrial Department of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce. The material was published in or around 1940 in an attempt to entice businesses to bring their products to the Dallas market. The large...
Large folding map of Wichita Falls, Texas, published in Wichita Falls in 1940 by the Heydrick Mapping Company. In the south the map extends below what is now Midwestern State University. In the north, the map extends about as far as the Highway 44-287...
Restricted World War II Aviation Map Detailed aeronautical map of the El Paso Region, extending east to Odessa and Midland, and south to Marfa, Alpine and Sanderson, Texas. The chart is a font of information about civil and military aviation during...
