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Harvard Map Collection

Collections and support services

Animation of flipping through a folder of old maps of Havana in the Map Collection Historic maps of Havana in the Harvard Map Collection

Topographic map of India, 1973

Topographic map legend for India, 1973

Topographic map of Jordan, 1991

Topographic map legend for Jordan, 1991

Photograph of a 1909 map of land use in New Orleans Land cover map of Louisiana from 1909 in the Harvard Map Collection.

The legend showing different kinds of land use The legend of the 1909 land cover map of Louisiana.

USGS tool to extract modern day land cover data USGS data download tool, showing land cover data from 2016.

Screenshot from Harvard Geospatial Library Global volcanoes dataset in the Harvard Geospatial Library (HGL).

Two side by side images of GIS data on the moon

Workshops

Screen recording exploring redlining maps on Mapping Inequality website Mapping Inequality project via the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab.

About page of Mapping Inequality pointing to Github

Screen recording of LandgrabU scrollytelling interactive Land-Grab Univerisities interactive digital project.

Screenshot of Landgrabu project Github page

Infographic with logos for many different GIS software

Screencapture of library website showing workshop offerings

Spring 2023 workshop offerings. Registration via the Harvard Library Events calendar.

Office hours

Map of South America showing illegal mining activity

Map created by Luisa Shido.

Tutorials and project examples

Screen recording of a website with lots of helpful resources

Tutorials and blog.

maps@harvard.edu