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fuzinboston

Hi all - I'm finding myself spending way too much time looking for 1 specific old map. I currently have an 1887 original map of Boston, and a rather large nautical map of Cape Ann, where my better half grew up. I'm trying to locate such a map of Tampa, FL, where I grew up, to take up a large amount of wall space.

I've searched the Library of Congress, Tampa Historical Society, Hillsborough County Preservation Society, a host of college/university archives, as well as historicmapworks.com. HMW has a map, but it's too small. Ideally, it would be approximately 29.5(h) x 39(w).

Any map or cartography junkies here that can assist?

Thanks in advance,

fuzinboston
 
Alacrity59

Alacrity59

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Probably not up to the size you were looking for but for other folk here who like old maps. I've found maps available at historic sites where they do live reenactments of how things were. Had a couple printed right in front of me at the village printer. Off the top of my head they were about 30" x 16" and black on white paper.
 
Curly

Curly

Look into quad maps, the USGS or BLM websites should have information, when the government gets back to work that is....
 
PugslyCat

PugslyCat

Does it have to be an authentic antique or can it be a duplicate? UFL has their collection of Sanborn insurance maps online, including Tampa.
 
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I have a map of the universe when it was 10E-35 second old.

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fuzinboston

Curly said:
Look into quad maps, the USGS or BLM websites should have information, when the government gets back to work that is....
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thanks for the feedback - I will check those out.

PugslyCat said:
Does it have to be an authentic antique or can it be a duplicate? UFL has their collection of Sanborn insurance maps online, including Tampa.
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Can those be bought? Obviously I'd prefer a true a authentic original, but no one in New England seems to have a map outside this region, with the exception of a handful of foreign cities (London, Geneva, etc.).
 
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