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Old maps and photographs, each with its source and its rights.

How the country and its places looked, from the libraries and archives that keep the pictures, every one tied to its place in the Atlas.

323 pictures of 136 places, from 1565 to 1946.

Maps of the Philippines

The whole country as mapmakers drew it, oldest first.

All 23 maps of the Philippines

By era

Every picture, by when it was made.

Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao

Old maps of the three island groups.

The regions

A region is new; its maps show the old provinces and districts it covers. In the PSA's order.

The provinces

Each province's old maps and photographs, by name.

The cities

Streets, churches, markets and plazas as they were, by name.

Heritage towns

Towns kept for their churches, forts and streets.

Sources

Page updated October 9, 2026. Archive catalog release e205c7180a5b.

Every holder whose pictures the Archive shows, with their rights. Each picture's own page names its record.

  1. 1.National Library Board Singapore, David Parry Southeast Asian Map Collection. 4 pictures. No rights reserved (CC0).
  2. 2.Boston Public Library, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection. 26 pictures. No known restrictions.
  3. 3.Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans, Collection d'Anville. 2 pictures. Public domain.
  4. 4.Archivo Histórico de la Armada Juan Sebastián de Elcano / Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa (Ministerio de Defensa, Spain). 19 pictures. Creative Commons Attribution.
  5. 5.Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Cartes et plans. 5 pictures. Public domain.
  6. 6.Bibliothèque nationale de France. 3 pictures. Public domain.
  7. 7.Smithsonian Libraries; scan by Smithsonian Libraries via the Internet Archive. 23 pictures. No known restrictions.
  8. 8.University of Connecticut Libraries; scan by University of Connecticut Libraries via the Internet Archive. 55 pictures. Public domain.
  9. 9.Boston Public Library, Urban Maps. 1 picture. No known restrictions.
  10. 10.Wikimedia Commons. 132 pictures. Public domain.
  11. 11.The Internet Archive. 20 pictures. Public domain.
  12. 12.Library of Congress. 13 pictures. Public domain.
  13. 13.Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum, Vincent Starrett Collection, 1935-1938, undated. 2 pictures. No known restrictions.
  14. 14.The U.S. National Archives. 2 pictures. Public domain.
  15. 15.Flickr. 2 pictures. Public domain.
  16. 16.The New York Public Library. 4 pictures. Public domain.
  17. 17.The University of Michigan Library. 2 pictures. Public domain.
  18. 18.The Naval History and Heritage Command. 1 picture. Public domain.
  19. 19.Philippine Photographs Digital Archives. 1 picture. Public domain.
  20. 20.Boston Public Library, Stereograph Collection. 4 pictures. No known restrictions.
  21. 21.National Archives Catalog, National Archive and Research Administration, USA. 1 picture. Public domain.
  22. 22.U.S. National Archives. 1 picture. Public domain.

Every holder, licence and author in the Archive: Data and credits.

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