Welcome to the Pratt Museum’s first attempt at a searchable online collection. Of the 275 archived pieces in the Pratt’s Cartography collection, this section of our website focuses on 45 specific maps of local value. Dates on these maps range from the earliest years of the 20th century through the late 1970s, and fall into a few unique categories: 1.) Maps that were hand-drawn by local cartographers, documenting the layout of the town over various parts of the last century; 2.) Hand-drawn maps that speculate on potential land use that never came to be; 3.) Maps that have been annotated in pen, sometimes accompanied by oral histories, usually marking local Native land and marine use, community resources, place-names, and other “Kitchen Table” style mapped information; and, 4.) Maps with fragile conservation status.
Click on the images of the maps below to view them at full scale, or contact the Pratt to make an appointment to see these maps in person. Copies of several of these maps will be made available at the Homer Public Library, but the Museum has the originals!
If you have questions, comments, or concerns about any of the maps below, please feel free to contact Collections Manager Savanna Bradley.
This project was made possible through the support of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
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