Map and Atlas Museum of La Jolla

The Museum will resume normal hours during the period June15th to August 15th. Those hours are : Wednesdays and Thursdays 11 to 4 and the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month, also 11-4. The image is an 1860 map of Boston by Samuel Augustus Mitchell

RAGBRAI XIV Carolyn Blattel-Britton 1986; Zearing IA 20.5 x 20.5 on a larger sheet; Color press. Printed by Julin Printers, Monticello IA... Carolyn Blattel-Britton was a local Iowa artist. This pictorial map was done for the XIV running of the Ragbrai Bicycle cross-country race*. The race covers over 400 mile from Mineola to Muscatine and the artist shows many of the small towns and local sights. Blattel-Britton was self-taught and as a disabled person---she was an achondroplastic dwarf (she preferred little person")she overcame many difficulties in her life. Her art is whimsical in nature. This piece appears to be one of the few pictorial maps she drew. She died in 2019 at age 64. See more

1859 J H Colton "Map of New Hampshire", but this one colored by Townships instead of Counties...and all by hand. Patience was the byword. Colton was one of the "Big 3" of mid-19th century US mapmakers

We are now open by appointment again, Wednesdays, Thursdays and 1st & 3rd Saturdays 11-4. Contact [email protected] for info or to request a reservation.

The Earliest Illustration of the Planned Development of the Mission Bay Recreational Area. Finely executed view of Mission Bay and environs, prepared in connection with the San Diego Chamber of Commerce's original plan to dredge Mission Bay for recreational purposes. Lithographed by Frye & Smith of San Diego, one of the leading printers in San Diego in the mid 20th Century, this was almost certainly the first official printed rendering of the proposed dredging and recreational development of Mission Bay, as there is no advertising or other printing on the verso, suggesting that it was not intended for commercial use or wide distribution, but instead was most likely created as an early planning tool in connection with the Chamber of Commerce's work on the development of Mission Bay

Our next OPEN SATURDAY will be November 28th. It will be by appointment between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Each appointment is for one hour. Book through [email protected]. Here's a 1934 propaganda map from the former USSR

"Map of the U.S. for the Foot-Loose..." ca 1950's Original art by Bill Charmatz. Believed to have been done for Esquire Magazine. . Medium: pen & Ink, watercolor and acetate overlay. Signed by the artist. The vignettes are quite humorous and suggestive (for the 50's). Now for the news: Our next Saturday opening for Appointments will be Oct 17th, 10-4. Contact [email protected] for a time slot

We have added Saturday, September 19th to our "open by appointment " schedule. One hour slots are available between 1000 and 1600. Email [email protected] to schedule your own private hour.

Map of North Island, New Zealand Smith, Stephenson Percy c1891; New Zealand 36.5 x 26 inches; Lithographed sectional dissected map VG condition. Covers with usual wear... New Zealand General Survey Office map of New Zealand’s North Island. Covers form the Tasman sea to the South Pacific and from the Three Kings Islands to Karamea Bight. Very detailed including railroads as of 1887. Numerous coastal islands, points, bays, and other formations are depicted. A ship’s course around nearly all of North islands is indicated in manuscript, with the notation T. W. Oliver marked above Haurki Gulf.

Sorry to report that we are fully closed again, probably until the end of July.