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67 Rare Antique Maps of Michigan on CD-ROM

This is an INCREDIBLE collection of 67 ULTRA HIGH RESOLUTION antique maps (most are in the 10 to 15 megabyte range EACH!!!) dating from the 1700's to the early 1900's. Many of these maps are so RARE that it is unlikely that you would ever have the change to see one outside of a museum, much less own one, and be able to examine it in such amazing detail. If you have even a passing interest in antique maps this is one collection you will want to own.

These maps represent some of the most beautiful and historic maps ever produced. Many have stunningly beautiful border decorations and are richly handcolored.

If you are at all interested in the art of Cartography (mapmaking) or just in studing beautiful maps you wil absolutely LOVE this CD.

You can view the maps at MANY times the size of the original in unbelievable detail zooming in to extreme closeness with very clear and sharp clarity. You can pan in all directions at any magnification. It's like being able to examine them under a microscope!

While it is not at all practical to provide a sample of one of the maps at full resolution (it would take the average PC many minutes to download and many more to refresh for each zoom) we have provided a set of six screen shots at increasing magnification to give a feel for just how fine the detail is even at extreme magnification. While it may take a moment to load the screen shots.

FROM THE CD THE MAPS LOAD MANY TIMES FASTER AND REFRESH IS ONLY ABOUT 2 SECONDS.

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A PC  (NOT Mac or UNIX compatible) running Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT. Netscape 4.0 and higher or Internet Explorer or higher. A minimum of 16 meg or memory (32 meg is better). These requirements are met by more than 95% of the PC in use. In other words unless you have a very old machine you should hve no problem running the program.

Early Maps of Michigan

Map of Michigan showing the Toledo, Ann Arbor, & North Michigan Railway and connecting lines. 1886
Map of the northwestern states. Shewing [sic] what proportion lies north of the parallel of South Bend of Lake Michigan. It will be seen at a glance, that the unbroken line of communication with the Atlantic seaboard, and the only winter route for northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, will be by the Michigan Southern Railway, and south shore of Lake Erie. 1850
Railroad map of Michigan prepared for the commissioner of railroads. c1874
Skeleton map, showing the position and connections of the Michigan Southern Rail Road (from Toledo to Chicago) with the several great rail road routes to the Atlantic seaboard and New York City via the south shore of Lake Erie. 1850
Official map of Michigan, railroad, township and sectional, prepared under the direction of the commissioner of railroads. 1855
A map of part of the continent of North America : between the 35th and 51st degrees of north latitude, and extending from 890 degrees of west longitude to the Pacific Ocean / compiled from the authorities of the best informed travellers by M. Lewis ; copied by Nicholas King, 1805.
Carte de la riviere Longue : et de quelques autres, qui se dechargent dans le grand fleuve de Missisipi [sic] ... ; Carte que les Gnacsitares : ont dessine sur des paux de cerfs 1703
Railroads in Michigan, with steamboat routes on the Great Lakes. Drawn and engraved for Doggett's railroad guide & gazetteer. 1848
Calumet, Hecla & Red Jacket, Mich. : 1881 / [signed] H. Wellge, Milw. ; Beck & Pauli, lith., Milwaukee, Wis.
Birds eye view of the city of Port Huron, Sarnia & Gratiot, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1867 & Point Edwards, Lambton Co., Canada west. Drawn & published by A. Ruger.
Birds eye view--showing about three miles square--of the central portion of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Calvert Lith Co. 1889
A map showing the route of the proposed rail road from the Copper and Iron Mining District of Lake Superior to connect with rail roads built or being constructed in the state of Wisconsin as adopted by the citizens of Ontonagon and Marquette counties Mich. at public meetings held in November and December 1855; (subject to such changes of location of the road as a general survey of the line shall prove to be desirable.)
East Saginaw, Michigan, 1867 / drawn & published by A. Ruger ; Chicago Lithographing Co.
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1868?
Niles, Berrien County, Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1868?
Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1866
Grand Rapids, Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. 1868
Birds eye view of the city of Jackson, Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1869?
Adrian, Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1866
Birds-eye view of Muskegon, Michigan 1889, from Muskegon Lake looking east. E. S. Glover, sketch. Shober Carqueville Lith. Co.
Saint Johns, Clinton Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger.
Muskegon, Michigan 1874.
Ionia, Ionia Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger.
Saginaw City [Michigan 1867] Drawn from nature by A. Ruger.
Pontiac, Oakland Co., Michigan 1867. Drawn & published by A. Ruger.
Bird's eye view of the city of Muskegon, Muskegon Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger.
Birds eye view of the city of Marshall, Calhoun Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1868?
Birds eye view of the city of Coldwater, Branch Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1868?
Birds eye view of the city of Lansing, Michigan 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger.
Birds eye view of the city of Albion, Calhoun Co., Michigan. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1868
Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan. 1898
Bird's eye view of Bay City, Portsmouth, Wenona & Salzburg, Bay Co., Michigan 1867. Drawn by A. Ruger.
Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co.
Hudson, Lenawee Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co.
Kalamazoo, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Litho. Co.
Bird's eye view of Saint Clair, St. Clair Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lith. Co.
Panoramic view of the city of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., Michigan 1880. Beck & Pauli Lith.
Panoramic view of the city of Jackson, Michigan 1881. [By] A. Ruger. Beck & Pauli Lith.
Wyandotte, Michigan 1896. Drawn by T. M. Fowler.
Birds eye view of the city of Grand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Merchants Lithographing Co.
Mills & manufacturing establishments of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich. Drawn & published by A. Ruger. 1869?
Grand Haven, Ottawa County, Michigan 1874. Chas. Shober & Co. props. Chicago Lithographing Co.
Proposed route for a rail road from Copper Harbor, to Fond Du Lac, Winnebego. 1853
Bird's-eye-view of Battle Creek, Mich. 188?
Lake Superior's Queen City (Marquette, Mich.) 1897.
Bird's eye view of Bessemer, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886. Beck & Pauli, litho.
Benton Harbor, Mich. 1889.
Port Huron, Mich. 1894.
Bird's-eye view of Kalamazoo / this drawing produced by the Benford-Bryan Co. Incorporated, artists.1908
Ironwood, Mich., Ontonagon County 1886. H. Wellge, sk. Beck & Pauli, litho.
Panoramic view of Mt. Clemens 1881, Macomb Co., Mich. Beck & Pauli, lith.
Chapman's rail road map of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, & Wisconsin. 1859
Bird's eye view of the city of Battle Creek, Calhoun Co., Mich. Drawn and published by A. Ruger. 1870?
Negaunee, Mich. 1871. Drawn by H. H. Bailey. C.H. Vogt Lith.
International rail road guide of the Great Central Route. 1855
Bird's eye view of Romeo 1868. Drawn by A. Ruger. Chicago Lithogr. Co.
An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on the river Ohio. 1754
Bird's eye view of Kalamazoo, Mich. 1883. Drawn by H. Wellge & A. F. Poole. Beck & Pauli, lithographers.
Birds eye view of the city of Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co., Mich. 1866. Drawn & published by A. Ruger.
Map of the Milwaukee & Superior Rail Road and its connections. 1857
Colton's county & township rail road map of Ohio, Indiana, & Michigan, with parts of adjoining states & Canada; printed by Lang & Laing, 1859.
Guide through Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin & Iowa; by J. Calvin Smith, engraved by S. Stiles, Sherman & Smith. c1840
Map showing the location of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway with its branches & connections through Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan. 1862
A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac, to shew the situation & importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. 175?
Map showing the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, and its connections. 1871
Map of the Great Central Route and its connections, the most central, attractive, direct and reliable thoroughfare between the eastern and western states. 1856
[Lewis and Clark map, with annotations in brown ink by Meriwether Lewis, tracing showing the Mississippi, the Missouri for a short distance above Kansas, Lakes Michigan, Superior, and Winnipeg, and the country onwards to the Pacific]. 1803?