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Maps of the District of Columbia

Guide to maps of Washington D.C. in the Library of Virginia's collection

Maps in Atlases

City of Washington
In A New Universal Atlas
Philadelphia: S. A. Mitchell, 1848
Plate 16
Special Collections
Call number: G1019 .M64 1848, Digital file no. 16_0488_005.jpg


Map of Washington Established as the Permanent Seat of the Government of the United States Engraved and Published by D. M. Clelland, Washington
D. M. Clelland
In The Seat of Government of the United States
Joseph Varnum Jr.
New York: Press of Hunt’s Merchant Magazine, 1848
Closed Stacks
Call number: F194 .V31, Digital file no. 16_0488_007.jpg


Johnson’s Georgetown and the City of Washington, the Capital of the United States of America
In Johnson’s New Illustrated Family Atlas
Richmond, VA: Johnson and Browning, 1861
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1019 .J66


Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia
Frank Gray
In National Atlas, Containing Elaborate Topographical Maps of the United States
Philadelphia: Stedman and Brown, 1886
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1200 .G68 1886


District of Columbia [Inset]
Rand, McNally and Company (fl. from 1858)
In Rand, McNally & Co.’s Indexed Atlas of the World…
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company: Continental Publishing Co., 1886
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1019 .R35 1886


Rand, McNally & Co.’s Atlas of the World Map of Washington, D.C.
Rand, McNally and Company (fl. from 1858), 1893
In Rand, McNally & Co.’s Indexed Atlas of the World… Vol. 2
Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1897
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1019 .R35 1897


Map of Washington
George F. Cram (1842–1928)
In Cram’s Imperial Office Directory and Reference Atlas of the United States
Chicago: Cram Directory and Atlas Co., 1889
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1200 .C67 1889


Map of Washington
George Cram (1842–1928)
In Cram’s Standard American Railway System Atlas of the World
Chicago: G. F. Cram, 1891
Closed Stacks
Call number: G3201.P3 C7 1891


Map of Washington
George F. Cram (1842–1928)
In Universal Atlas, Geographical, Astronomical, Historical: Containing a Complete Series of Maps of Modern Geography, Exhibiting the World and its Various Political Divisions as they are To-day : also an Elaborate Series of Authentic Historical Maps Showing the World’s Progress and Development from the Earliest Times to the Present, to Which is Added a Brief History of Astronomy and a Description of the Geography of the Heavens : Illustrated by Numerous Views and Charts; the Whole Supplemented with Valuable Statistics, Diagrams, and a Complete Gazetteer of the United States.
New York: G. F. Cram, 1893
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1019 .G4763 1893


MAPS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, District of Columbia and Its Principal Suburbs
In Cram’s Standard American Railway System Atlas of the World
Chicago: G. F. Cram, 1902
Closed Stacks
Call number: G3201.P3 C7 1903


Washington, District of Columbia and Its Principal Suburbs. Published by George F. Cram, Chicago, Ill.
George F. Cram Company
In Cram’s Modern New Census Atlas of the United States and World…
New York: George F. Cram Company, 1911
Closed Stacks
Call number: G1019 .G39 1911