Rare Vintage Maps From the Prelinger Library in San Francisco

Rare maps from the Prelinger Library

San Francisco, 1938

Wired recently posted a gallery of rare vintage maps, including a Russian-produced map of the San Francisco Bay Area from the Cold War, and a 1959 Farsi-language map of America made for the U.S. government for propaganda purposes. The maps reside in the Prelinger Library, a small San Francisco library that houses some 75,000 books, maps, and other ephemera mostly from the United States.

Rare maps from the Prelinger Library

United States, 1959

Rare maps from the Prelinger Library

San Francisco, 1980

E.D.W. Lynch
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