You Are Here … maps of New Haven from the collections

June 23, 2022

By Michael Morand

Beinecke Library is proud to call New Haven home. The following list and links to local maps is published to accompany a temporary exhibition of reproductions of seven New Haven maps on the ground floor glass windows of the west side of the library (facing High Street) that was on view from mid-June 2022 through July 24, 2024. This gallery shows the maps on the windows:

Open Gallery

Please use the links below to see digitized files and detailed catalog records for many New Haven maps, including the seven reproduced on the library windows and many more:

You Are Here … maps of New Haven from the collections

Map of New Haven / drawn by Joseph Brown, 1724 ; copied by Prest. Ezra Stiles, 1782

Plan of the city of New Haven taken in 1748 by James Wadsworth

A plan of New Haven and harbour / by President Stiles of Yale College, Sept. 27th, 1775.

Ezra Stiles Papers: Map of the invasion of New Haven, July 5, 1779

Plan of New Haven, 1812 / surveyed & published by A. Doolittle, Engraver, New Haven.

Plan of New Haven, 1824 / A. Doolittle, engraver

Map of the City of New Haven, 1830, from actual survey by D.W. Buckingham, county surveyor

Map of the city of New Haven, 1847

Map of the city of New Haven, 1852: from surveys / by R. Whiteford

Map of the city of New Haven, Conn … 1859 … by S.W. Searle

Map of the New-Haven water survey. 1860

Plan of the city of New Haven, 1868

Plan of Fair Haven, New Haven Co., Conn. 1868

Benham’s new map of the city of New Haven, 1872 / drawn by Edward Lyman; from the records & surveys by S. Butler, civil engineer

Price, Lee & Co., 1878, new map of the city of New Haven / surveyed by S.W. Searle

The city of New Haven, Conn., 1879. [Bird’s eye view]

Insurance maps of New Haven, Connecticut. Sanborn Map Company, 1886

City of New Haven, Connecticut, 1893 / A.B. Hill, c.e.

Insurance maps of New Haven, Connecticut. Sanborn Map Company, 1901

Saloon map of New Haven, 1911

Oyster grounds in New Haven harbor, Towns of New Haven and Orange. 1916

Insurance maps of New Haven, Connecticut. Sanborn Map Company, 1923-1924

Insurance maps of New Haven, Connecticut. Sanborn Map Company, 1973 (note: digital access limited to campus network due to copyright)

… and you may also be interested in other New Haven maps from other websites and collections, including:

Zoning and many other contemporary maps from the City of New Haven GIS

Historical Maps of the Grove Street Cemetery

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Map, New Haven, CT 1937 (“redlining” map)

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