Originally held by the Geology & Geography Department, Gould's collection contains a wide variety of military and intelligence maps. Starting in 1946, Carleton College was one of about 30 institutions (and only 1 of 3 liberal arts colleges) in the United States that elected to receive “captured” German and Japanese military maps, redistributed by the Army Map Service.

Our collection also includes maps produced by the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), which was the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency. 

You can also find maps produced by the Army Map Service. These are topographic and road maps much like the USGS maps, but with a more international scope.  

Learn more about the Office of Strategic Services intelligence maps from this Stanford guide. If you are interested in the history of captured maps, Stanford Libraries also provides a great overview of their collection of Gaihozu Japanese military maps. In addition, see UC Berkeley's guide on German captured maps from World War II.