Cartographic Collections

Special Collections maintains nearly 1,700 maps and atlases of Long Island and New York State, dating back to the seventeenth century with Willem Janszoon Blaeu's New Belgium and New England (ca. 1640). The map and atlas collections can be searched in STARS, the University Libraries' online catalog.

Map Collection at Stony Brook University

Sanborn Digital Maps Collection for New York State (access restricted to SBU students, faculty, and staff)

Recommended resource: The Mapping of New York State: A Study in the History of Cartography by David Yehling Allen.


Aerial Photography

The aerial photography collections are part of the Map Collection at Stony Brook University Libraries (North Reading Room, Melville Library). Please contact Chris Filstrup for information and access.

• 1930 Suffolk County photographs from Air Map Corporation of America. Available on CD-ROM only.
  
• 1938 Suffolk County. Black-and-white high altitude photographs covering much of Suffolk County. From U.S. Department of Agriculture. Stereoscopic coverage for some areas.
• 1938 Nassau County. Stereoscopic coverage.
• 1947 Nassau County. Stereoscopic coverage.
  
• 1970 Nassau and Suffolk counties. High altitude black-and-white photos from Lockwood, Kessler, and Bartlett.
• 1976 Nassau and Suffolk counties. Black and white 7.5' quadrangle format blueprints from Tri-State Regional Planning Commission.
• 1988 Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Black-and-white high altitude photographs from Lockwood, Kessler, and Bartlett.