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Japanese 'collaborative settler colonialism' in Brazil.
ブラジル国 サンパウロ州之図 / [Map of Sao Paulo State Brazil].
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This is a 1923 Japanese-language map of Sao Paulo State, Brazil, issued jointly by the Nambei Tochi Kumiai and the Kaigai Kyōkai Chūōkai, organizations dedicated to promoting Japanese emigration to South America. In particular, the map relates to migrants from Nagano settling in agricultural colonies cultivating rice, cotton, coffee, sugar, and other commodities. Japanese emigration to South America in particular can be seen as a kind of economic colonialism called by some 'collaborative settler colonialism'. (more details)
Occupation and Starvation in China's Great Southern Metropolis.
最新廣州市街詳圖 / [Latest Detailed Street Map of Guangzhou].
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This is a rare 1940 city map of Guangzhou (Canton), China, published by the firm Shanghai Feisheng Geological. It is a rare record of Guangzhou's arduous Japanese occupation in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945) / World War II (1939 - 1945). (more details)
First modern map of Mount Everest.
Mahalangur Himal Chomolongma - Mount Everest.
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This is the first and most important modern map of Mount Everest. This extraordinary map was published in 1957 by the Deutscher Alpenverein (German Alpine Club) and Österreichischer Alpenverein (Austrian Alpine Club) based upon photogrammetric survey work conducted by Erwin Schneider during the 1955 Norman G. Dyrhenfurth Himalaya Expedition. (more details)
Pushing the Greater New York Charter.
Greater New York. Birdseye View Especially Drawn and painted for the New York Tribune.
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This is a January 1897 Charles Graham and New York Tribune view of Greater New York City - a persuasive piece issued to promote the idea of Greater New York, which involved consolidating Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island into a single city. When this map was issued, the Greater New York City Charter was a matter of fierce debate in the State Legislature, with most protests coming from Brooklyn, which feared loss of autonomy. The Tribune was pro-Charter. (more details)
Karafuto to Korea.
新日本鳥瞰圖 / [Bird's eye view of the New Japan].
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This is a stunning, large-format Taisho 9 (1920) map of the Japanese Empire, including Taiwan and Korea, issued by the daily Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. It highlights growing rail and maritime networks linking the Japanese Empire together. (more details)
Ambitious plan to remake Shanghai.
最新測繪大上海新地圖 / [Most Recent Survey Map of Greater Shanghai].
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This is a 1938 (Showa 13) Kimura Kesao city plan or map of the Great Shanghai Municipality. It was published soon after Japanese forces occupied the Chinese municipality in the Second Sino-Japanese War (World War II). It illustrates Japan's ambitious plan to relocate Shanghai's economic center farther north, into a completely new Japanese-built and designed city center. (more details)
Between Tradition and Modernity.
名勝圖解 東亰御繪圖 / [Illustrated Map of Tokyo, Displaying Points of Interest].
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This is an 1881 large-format map of Tokyo drawn by Itō Seisai and published by Ōhashidō. While the foundation of Tokugawa-era Edo is clearly evident, the map also demonstrates the dramatic changes that took place in the preceding years, as the Meiji government embraced a program of rapid modernization. (more details)
Postwar Rebound of Atlantic Fishing Industry.
Fishermen and Yachtmen's Chart Cape Cod to Newfoundland.
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This is a 1929 / 1946 Albert Close nautical chart / map of the Atlantic Coast of North America, covering from Cape Cod to Newfoundland. Intended for fishermen, this information-dense chart was published in the immediate aftermath of World War II (1939 - 1945) and reflects the gradual return to a peacetime fishing economy. (more details)
Cape Cod's cullinary tradition.
[Cape Cod]. Rules from Old Cape Homes for the 'Accomplist Cook'.
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This is a charming 1948 pictorial map of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, designed and published by Claretta Pope Higgins, celebrating the Cape's history, geography, maritime heritage, regional folklore, historic architecture, and distinctive culinary traditions. Combining decorative cartography with whimsical illustrations and traditional New England recipes, the map presents Cape Cod as both a historic landscape and a living cultural destination. (more details)
Interwar Japan's Impressive Rail Network.
鐵道院所管線路圖 / [Map of Railway Lines Managed by the Imperial Railway Board].
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This is a large-format wall map depicting Japan's railway network, produced in 1918 by the Imperial Railway Board and published by the Toppan Printing Company. It demonstrates the country's sizable and growing rail network and hints at its larger ambitions to build close connections with the rest of East Asia. (more details)
WWII 13th Armored Division: from Le Havre, France, to Austria.
13th Armored (Black Cat) Division. A History in Pictures Jan-May 1945.
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This is a 1945 World War II (1939 - 1945) pictorial unit route map drawn by Technician Fourth Grade Wendell Lovett, a member of the 13th Armored Division. The map highlights the division's deployment in Europe from January 1945 until the end of the war in May 1945. Small illustrations of tanks are scattered throughout, underlining the division's role as an armored unit. It was published in June 1945 in Europe before the 13th Armored Division returned to the United States. (more details)
The Cactus Division as it fights its way through France, Germany, and Austria.
The Cactus Route. 500 Fighting Miles. France-Germany-Austria-Italy
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This is a 1945 World War II unit route map of the 103rd Infantry Division from France, through Germany, Austria, and Italy. It highlights battles, defensive positions, and occupation duties from November 1944 until May 1945. (more details)
Promoting Indiana with cartoonish fun.
Bill Skacel's Cartoon Indiana.
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This is a c. 1946 Bill Skacel cartoon map of Indiana. The map combines cartoonish illustrations of landmarks, universities, and other important locations to help promote Indiana to travelers. (more details)
Playful pictorial map of Ireland.
Historical Map of Ireland.
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This is a delightful 1969 L. G. Bullock pictorial historical map of Ireland, published by the Edinburgh cartographic firm John Bartholomew and Sons. Combining decorative cartography, Irish history, genealogy, folklore, heraldry, architecture, and national identity, the map presents the island of Ireland as a vibrant tapestry of ancient clans, medieval castles, monastic foundations, historic battlefields, Viking incursions, regional traditions, and cultural landmarks. (more details)
Battle for the Fate of the Levant.
ردشمنلوا میسرت كنویامه هیرب هناخسدنهم هطیرح وبشا [This map was drawn by the Imperial Engineering Office].
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An extraordinary, one-of-a-kind large-format manuscript folding map of Ottoman Syria produced by the sultan's Imperial Engineering Office c. 1832. It was made in the context of the First Egyptian Ottoman War (1831 - 1833), which saw the region temporarily come under Egyptian rule. (more details)
Japan's First True Railway.
東京高輪海岸蒸氣車鐵道圖 / [Steam Train on the Railway along the Tokyo-Takanawa Coastline].
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A remarkable view of Japan's first modern railway, this ukiyo-e woodblock triptych was drawn by Utagawa Hiroshige III and published by Tsunajima Kamekichi in 1871. (more details)
Celebrating the Hejaz Railway from Damascus to Medina.
سوریه قطعهسی / [The Region of Syria].
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This exceptionally rare c. 1912 Ottoman folding map of the Levant highlights the Hejaz Railway. Across scorching deserts, waterless expanses, and some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth, the Ottoman Empire forged one of the Islamic world's great engineering achievements: the Hejaz Railway. Financed without European loans through contributions from Muslims around the globe and constructed increasingly by Ottoman engineers and Muslim workers, the line reached more than 1,300 kilometers from Damascus to Medina (المدينة) by 1908. (more details)
Earliest Detailed Chart of the Cape Verde Islands, Senegal, and the lower Gambia River.
Carta particolare della Barberia Australe che comincia con il capo Matas è Finiscie con il C. Himilas con l'Isole di capo Verde.
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This is a superb example of Robert Dudley's rare 1647 nautical chart or map of the coast of Africa, focusing on the Cape Verde Islands and the mainland from the Western Sahara to the northern part of Guinea. It is both beautifully engraved and an important, early work. It is the earliest accurate printed chart of the Cabo Verde Islands and the coastlines of Senegal, The Gambia, and Guinea. (more details)
Defending the borders in the wake of Commodore Perry.
蝦夷闔境輿地全圖 / [Complete Map of All Lands within the Borders of Ezo].
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This is an important 1854 (Kaei 7) Japanese Edo period Fujita Ryou chromoxylographic map illustrating Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. It was issued following the 1853 arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry, anticipating the opening of Hakodate as one of the five Japanese treaty ports. (more details)
Geographical Games.
各國航海境界雙錄[六] / [Sugoroku of Each Country's Maritime Boundaries].
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A brilliantly-colored game from the early Meiji, this c. 1870 ukiyo-e sugoroku sheet reflects the interests of the times, focusing on foreign countries and modern naval technology. (more details)