A gem from Harvard’s Library Open Collections Program: Their section on Immigration to the United States links to the Hull-House Maps and Papers, A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, New York: T.Y. Crowell, c1895. The ebook includes high resolution, colored images of the maps on wages and nationalities. Here is some background on Florence KelleyThe Slums of the Great Cities Survey Maps, 1893 and the origin of that publication.
This is a link to an example from the New York Times that tries to tell a spatial story. You can hover over the neighborhoods to see what stories relate there. In addition, and that’s even more interesting, you can hover over the squares at the bottom, for example “neighborhood makeup”.
This website on “Historic Cities” contains maps, literature, documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the web.
More pointers to old city maps are here.
