The City Maps, Discoveries and Explorations collections contain about two dozen historical maps that you can download for free and reuse in any study project. In the following video, I’ll show you how to find and download historical maps from the topoView website. The Royal Collection of Topographic Images, hosted by Flick Commons, contains more than 17,000 historical maps and cartographic images. Maps of Cities, managed by the Library of Congress, is one of two sets of historical maps available in free-use and reuse collections on the Library of Congress website. As I mentioned in my previous post, reading this recent BBC article about the rediscovery of the first three-dimensional map of Europe prompted me to search my archive of historical map collections. The maps in the collection can be browsed and searched by date, place, topic, language, collection, and participant. You can browse, view, and download all maps and drawings in the collection. King’s topographic collection consists of maps and drawings made between 1500 and 1824. topoView is a USGS site with historical maps dating back to 1880. Although it hasn’t been updated in a decade, the collection of more than 5,000 historic maps of Florida remains remarkable. The maps can be downloaded and reused for free by teachers and students. topoView is a good place to find historical maps. COL’s online collection of historical maps, which varies in usage and reuse, offers visitors about 38,000 items to search. Maps can be downloaded in a variety of file formats, including JPG and KMZ. Many of the maps are in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons.