Where to find old charts?

[gcjennings]

I was looking for where to find old charts. I am thinking perhaps NOAA, but I do not know if they have an archives. And by old I mean around the 1950's.

 

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[chipveres]

You can get halfway to your goal by just going to terraserver-usa.com . Most of their topographic charts sre from the mid-1970's.

Chip V.

 

[bottomdweller]

http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp

This is a very helpful site, not just nautical charts but some interesting old maps of settlements.
oh yeah, when you enter your search the results will come up on the bottom of the page, just scroll down, otherwise it looks like nothing happened.

 

[rgecy]

Bottomdweller beat me to it. The NOAA site would certainly have most charts that were produced. Certainly, you could also go to local library. I have found many old charts at the library that you cannot find online.

By the way, welcome to the forum!

Good luck,

Robert

 

[scubatreasure]

this is one of my favorites http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html
good luck

oh what the hey here is another one
http://www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/refweb.html
happy hunting

 

[Colombiapictures]

What kind of software is needed to open the .sid files downloaded from NOAA?

 

[Mackaydon]

Map rooms of large universities may be another source for you. Here on the Left Coast, the UCLA map room and Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego are excellent sources.

 

[rgecy]

Here ya go. Here is the sid viewer from the Library of Congress

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/help/download_sid.html