Library Guides: Maps and More: 4/20: Mapping Off the Plane (birds eye views)

A Long Tradition

Dubrovnik (Croatia) bird's-eye view
Call Number: G6874.D8 1960 .D8 (Case D)
Dubrovnik (birds'-eye view in color)
Call Number: G6874.D8 1962 .P5 (Case D)
Panoramic view of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1898
Call Number: G3514.V3A3 1898 .M3 1998 (Case D)
Bird's-eye view of Philadelphia from sketches by Theo. R. Davis (1876)
Call Number: G3824.P5A3 1876 .D3 1968 (Case D)
Town plan of Bolzano (1942)
Call Number: G6714.B72A3 1942 .G7a (Case D)
Houston, Texas (looking south), 1891
Call Number: G4034.H8A3 1891 .H6 1977 (Case D)
Madison, Wis. and the four lake region (birds'-eye view) (1909)
Call Number: G4124.M2 1909 .M3 (Case D)
The city of Philadelphia (birds'-eye view) (1875)
Call Number: G3824.P5A3 1875 .C8 1976 (Case D)

late 19th to early-20th century views of the San Francisco Bay Area (& beyond)

Inverness, the new summer resort, and the Point Reyes Shafter Colony : [Calif.] (1889)
Call Number: G4363.M2A3 1889 .I5 (Case D)

Birds'-eye view. Original held at Bancroft.
Bird's-eye perspective of the city from the east, showing the proposed changes / [Daniel H. Burnham] (1905)
Call Number: G4364.S5A3 1905 .B8 (Case D)
Regents Park, Berkeley, California ... / W.H. Bull (1907)
Call Number: G4364.A24A3 1907 .B8 (Case D)

Bird's eye view showing area south from Regents Park (Albany).
Bay of San Francisco and Napa Valley : showing steamer and electric railroad routes of the Monticello Steamship Co. and San Francisco Vallejo and Napa Valley Electric R.R. Co. (1907)
Call Number: G4362.S22P1 1907 .M6 (Case D)

Oblique perspective drawing; oriented with north towards the upper left corner, and with San Francisco and Oakland in the foreground.
Map of part subdivision of Leland : "The ideal city" / Leland Improvement Co., owners and builders (1908?)
Call Number: G4364.P2 1908 .L4 (Case D)

Bird's eye view of the Bay Area with Palo Alto and Leland in the foreground.
Berkeley / compliments of Newell-Hendricks Inc., real estate and insurance (1909)
Call Number: G4364.B5A3 1909 .B4 (Case D)

Bird's-eye-view looking westward from the University of California campus towards the Golden Gate.
The restoration of "The city loved around the world," San Francisco, 1910 : where, in 1915, will be held the Panama-Pacific International Exposition / Drawn by W.K. Briggs (1910)
Call Number: G4364.S5A3 1910 .I7p no.1-4 (Case D)

Bird's-eye view.
Proposed municipal terminal, San Francisco : affording 10 miles of deep sea dockage and reclaiming 1000 acres of land / issued by the California River and Harbor League (1913)
Call Number: G4364.S5P55 1913 .C3 (Case D)

Oblique pictorial view from Hunters Point looking towards Oakland showing proposed municipal terminal and reclaimed lands.
Map of the City of Peking. From the Pie-ho to Peking : a bird's-eye view of the disturbed area in China (1900?)
Call Number: G7824.B4 1900 .M3 (Case D)

the Birds'-Eye View evolves

Venezia Tridentina (1930)
Call Number: G6713.T7A5 1930 .V3 (Case B)

"Panorama delle nostre terre irredente"
Map of Death Valley : showing principal points of interest (1930)
Call Number: G4362.D39A3 1930 .D4 (Case D)

Oblique perspective bird's-eye view.
Grand Canyon / Jo Mora (1931)
Call Number: G4332.G7A5 1931 .M6 (Case D)
Panorama of Boulder Dam ... Grand Canyon : showing routes of scenic "Wonder Air Tours" / drawn by Gerald A. Eddy ; [for] United Air Lines (1950)
Call Number: G4332.G7P62 1950 .E3 (Case D)
South Tyrol - Dolomites - Italy (1978)
Call Number: G6713.T7E635 1978 .T6 (Case D)

Relief shown pictorially.
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington (1986)
Call Number: G4282.M6A3 1986 .M6 (Case B)

Oblique-view pictorial landform map.
Sun Valley Resort trail map (2017)
Call Number: G4272.B34E63 2017 .S8 (Case D)

oblique maps and science

Oblique map of the Gulf of Alaska / by Tau Rho Alpha, Marybeth Gerin, and James M. Joyce (1980)
Call Number: G9651.C2 1980 .A5 (Case D)
Oblique map of the Pacific Coast of North America / physiography by Tau Rho Alpha (1980)
Call Number: G3351.C2 1980 .A5 (Case B)
The ocean floor / text and art by Earl C. Bateman, III (1985)
Call Number: G9096.C2 1985 .B3 (Case B)

2 oblique global views showing seafloor topography of the Atlantic and Pacific basins.
McMurdo Sound area, Antarctica, historical and scientific gateway to the frozen continent, oblique, southward view during Antarctic summer (late January) (1985)
Call Number: G9802.M5 1985 .M6 (Case B)
California, Nevada and the Pacific Ocean : the present, five million years ago, and five million years in the future (1986)
Call Number: G4361.C55 1986 .D8 (Case B)

Bird's-eye-views looking toward the northwest of California; includes Nevada and adjacent Pacific Ocean floor.
Colorado front range (1988)
Call Number: G4312.F7A3 1988 .C6 (Case D)

Oblique computer generated view from south to north.
View to the west : The Colorado Front Range and beyond (1988)
Call Number: G4312.F7A3 1988 .C61 (Case D)

Perspective view of the Range showing mountian peaks with name and elevations.
Oblique map showing maximum extent of 20,000-year-old (Tioga) glaciers, Yosemite National Park, central Sierra Nevada, California / By Tau Rho Alpha, Clyde Wahrhaftig, and N. King Huber (1987)
Call Number: USGS I 1885 (Case 2)

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Maps and More: 4/20: Mapping Off the Plane (birds eye views)

A Long Tradition

late 19th to early-20th century views of the San Francisco Bay Area (& beyond)

the Birds'-Eye View evolves

oblique maps and science