Curtis Wright Maps

We can help you find a piece of history, geography, and culture that fits your budget, interest and style.

ABOUT CURTIS WRIGHT MAPS

Curtis Wright Maps is a Chicago area map dealer, specializing in antique maps

The concept of a map can encompass many different meanings, ideas and interpretations. To Curtis Wright, they have always symbolized a mechanism for escape. Maps are an intersection of history, geography and culture that can transport their audience to a different time and a different place.

My Blog

Mapping Change #2 – S.D.U.K. Maps of Lake Michigan

Mar 30, 2023

For the second blog of my Mapping Change series, I’m excited to explore four maps of the Upper Midwest created by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (S.D.U.K.) and published between 1833 and c. 1861.

Maps for ‘The Million.’

Mar 28, 2023

‘The Million’ is a term used for the masses of laboring public in Victorian-era Britain. The S.D.U.K. was founded in 1826 and would publish over 200 different maps that provided cheap geographical education to England’s ‘Million.’