Library Guides: Louisiana Information Sources: A Guide: Maps

Intro

Key resources for consulting historical and recent maps of Louisiana.

Louisiana Digital Library
Louisiana's doorway to the unique cultural and historical resources of Louisiana's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. Tulane University is a participating institution in the Louisiana Digital Library, a program of the Louisiana Digital Consortium.

New Orleans Historical
A web platform for sharing stories & scholarship about New Orleans and the surrounding area. Stories are linked to a city map.
Mapping Louisiana from 1513 - 1900 (Tulane University Special Collections, TUSC)
Digitized maps from the Louisiana Research Collection, a division of Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC). Dates range from 1513 to the present. The Louisiana Research Collection's renowned map collection extends from 1513 to the present.
Physical Maps - Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC)
Search tools to discover physical maps in Tulane University Special Collections (TUSC).

Fire insurance maps are excellent for historical research associated with preservation efforts.

Louisiana Fire Insurance Maps Online
Fire Insurance Maps online (FIMo), is Historical Information Gatherers' research portal to find and view high-definition, color Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps for Louisiana showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
Access large-scale maps of Louisiana towns and cities. Manipulate maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.

Using Sanborn Maps
Quick guide to using the Sanborn Maps database, available through Tulane University Libraries.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Collection (TUSC)
This collection includes fire insurance maps made by the Sanborn Map Company: 46 volumes of the maps are for New Orleans and cover 1876–1940s (updated through the 1960s). The two volumes for 1876 are the earliest Sanborns for New Orleans, and the only known copies. There are also 24 volumes for other cities in Louisiana and 14 volumes for cities in Mississippi.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (1876 New Orleans)
The earliest known copies of fire insurance maps for the New Orleans area, produced in 1876 as the Louisiana Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlas.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps (Library of Congress)
Nearly 25,000 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, which depict the structure and use of buildings in U.S. cities and towns. Maps will be added monthly until 2020, for a total of approximately 500,000.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Orleans Parish (Library of Congress)
Sanborn Map & Publishing Co.
Sanborn Map Company

Braun New Orleans Fire Insurance Atlases
Three fire insurance atlases for the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Coverage of the Fourth District (1874 and 1877) and the Third District (1877). Collection 123 of the Southeastern Architectural Archive.
Langermann and Celles Fire Insurance Atlases
This collection includes seven fire insurance atlases that cover the 1st through 6th districts of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Robinson New Orleans Fire Insurance Atlas
This collection includes one fire insurance atlas for the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, which covers the entire city at the time of 1883 and illustrates blocks with buildings of individual properties. Buildings are color coded to indicate which materials were used in their construction.
Robinson’s Atlas of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana (1883)
Digitized copy of the Robinson Atlas as held by the New Orleans Notarial Archive. An 1883 city map, arranged according to the city's seven municipal districts.