As the name suggests they are mostly plans, but there are thousands of maps within the collection as well. The collection known as The Historic Plans collection includes 11500 items from across 48 collections, and dates from the year 1836 until 1984.
Public Record Office Victoria preserves one of the more comprehensive collections of olds maps and plans in Victoria, some argue one of the most valuable in Australia, and following a multi-year project dedicated to making it accessible, over half of it can now be downloaded. And speaking of cadastral maps, if that's your thing why not head over to our Map Warper tool where you can view over 4000 Parish plans overlaid on the contemporary world. Is it seeing the origin of your geographic home that holds your attention? Or do you prefer the rich aesthetic of old maps? Sometimes it's not the map's location which draws our breath but its sketched up lines mixed with colour that when turned upside down are akin more to contemporary art than an 1850 cadastral map of land boundaries in Footscray.
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