The Vault Map collections include manuscript and rare printed maps and other cartographic items that have been filed together for their intrinsic, artistic, or historical significance. With few exceptions, these collections are stored in a specially designed vault equipped with temperature and humidity controls.

This section presents a selection of maps of Alaska from the Vault collection, including both digitized and non-digitized maps.

The Geography and Map Division maintains more than one hundred individual collections that have been acquired through gifts, government transfers, and purchases, or assembled by division specialists according to common themes. While maps in some of the special collections have been individually cataloged, most have been described in finding aids, and some have not yet been described in detail.

Search available finding aids for Geography and Map Division special collections