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One of the Earliest Specific Maps of Mexico.
Hispania Nova.
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This is Cornelis Wytfliet's 1597 map of Mexico, one of the first maps of the region overall and the first to appear in an atlas dedicated to the Americas. (more details)
Robert Waldmire, you, and me, against nuclear war.
The Wheel of Peace and Survival.
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This is a 1984 Robert Waldmire anti-nuclear broadside map of the world, entitled 'Wheel of Peace and Survival'. The broadside encourages viewers to take an active role in advocating for peace and ending the arms race by contacting nonprofits and their elected representatives. (more details)
Early Days of Automobiles in Oklahoma.
Map of the State of Oklahoma with Latest Official Census / Road Map of Oklahoma.
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A product of the early automotive age, this is a 1914 Kenyon Company pocket map of Oklahoma. The map emerged in the same year that Henry Ford revolutionized American manufacturing by introducing the Assembly Line, a move that made the Model-T affordable to many and launched hte Automobile Age. This map is thus significant for its forward focus on auto-routes. (more details)
Welcome to the Land of Sunshine.
Florida. hello welcome to the land of sunshine happy traveling happy vacation come back and see us again.
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A whimsical c. 1955 pictorial promotional placemat map of Florida displaying a range of attractions for tourists and visitors. (more details)
Polish Athens.
Plan von Krakau.
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A colorful 1928 German-Polish bilingual city map of Krakow by the Association for the Promotion of Tourism in Poland. Often considered Poland's cultural capital, the map presents the city's landscape in the Interwar Period (1918 - 1939). (more details)
Largest and Best Map of Lower Canada after the War of 1812.
To His Royal Highness George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall ... and Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; this Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada, shewing its division into Districts, Counties, Seigniories, and Townships with all the Lands reserved both for the Crown and the Clergy ... Is with his Royal Hyghnes's Special Permission, Most gratefully dedicated by a Faithful and Zealous Canadian Subject, and His Royal Highnes's Most Obedient and Devoted Servant, Joseph Bouchette, His Majesty's Surveyor General of the Province and Lieutt. Colonel C.M.
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This is Joseph Bouchette's monumental 10-sheet map of Lower Canada. Appearing at the end of the War of 1812, this is the largest, best, and most influential map of Canada issued in the 19th century. David Rumsey correctly praises it, saying that the 'graphic elegance of the large map is the equal (or perhaps the superior) of any of the contemporary maps that I have seen'. In its pre-publication manuscript form, it played a significant role in the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 and began the establishment of formal U.S.-Canada borders. Due to its extreme rarity, the significance of this map is often overlooked, and it is poorly represented in scholarly literature. (more details)
Japan: A Grasping Octopus.
Indie Moet Vrij! Werkt en Vecht Ervoor! [The Indies Must Be Free! Work and Fight For It!]
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This powerful 1944 Patrick Cokayne Keely World War II propaganda image presents Japan as a menacing octopus with grasping tentacles extending throughout Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. (more details)
A Medieval Holy Land.
Tabula Terre Sanctae.
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This is the Lorenz Fries 1535 edition of Pietro Vesconte's 14th-century manuscript map of Palestine. It is one of the earliest obtainable iterations of a c. 1320 manuscript map compiled to accompany Marino Sanudo's letters promoting a new crusade. Thus, it is one of the earliest surviving maps to support a specific military effort. Relating to this, Vesconte's map was the earliest surviving map to present the region in a Biblical context, naming the areas occupied by the Tribes of Israel, thus opening a long history of presenting the Levant in a religio-historical context. (more details)
Reporting the war to Japan's home front.
時局上海市街要圖 / [Current Situation Streetmap of Shanghai].
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This 1932 Teikoku Zaigō Gunjinkai map of Shanghai documents the 1932 Shanghai Incident (also known as the January 28 Incident), a brief war fought in the city between Japanese and Chinese forces. Although focusing on military forces, it also is a highly detailed street map or plan of Shanghai at the time, prepared with a Japanese audience in mind. (more details)
Eastern reaches of the Silk Road.
Octava Asia Tabula.
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This is a rare example of Bernard Sylvanus' 1511 Ptolemaic map of the eastern reaches of the Silk Road. Printed in a single edition, it is one of the most visually distinctive early woodcut maps to detail parts of modern-day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, the northeastern part of Mongolia, and the Xinjiang province of China. For Ancient Romans, this was the most remote part of the known world: Serica, named after the precious silk understood to originate there. (more details)
Virgo.
[Virgo.]
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This is a 1690 Johannes Hevelius celestial chart or star map of the Virgo constellation from his influential work Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia. Virgo dominates the sheet, which also includes adjacent Bootes, Mons Menalus, Libra, Scorpius, Centaurus, Hydra, Corvus, Crader, and Leo. (more details)
Scamming New Yorkers over land in Texas.
Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company.
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This is an 1830 'scrip' land certificate issued by the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, incorporating one of the earliest original regional maps of Texas. Scrip such as this, issued to New York abolitionist Barney Corse, was sold with the promise that the holder would be able to gain title to Texas land, but was in reality an elaborate fraud. The script is signed in manuscript by the company's trustees and the secretary. (more details)
Lakota Chief with a most unusual War Bonnet.
[Native American Chief.]
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This is a c. 1889 James E. Meddaugh albumen cabinet card photograph of a Native American Lakota chief. The image is mounted on one of Meddaugh's cabinet cards from his Rushville, Nebraska, studio. The unidentified Native American chief is standing facing the ... (more details)
Pro-Soviet Cold War Propaganda.
ЭТОТ СПИСОК ПОСЛУЖНОЙ СЛАВА АРМИИ РОДНОЙ. НО ЕЩЕ В КОНЦЕ ЛИСТА ЕСТЬ ВАКАНТНЫЕ МЕСТА. / This service record is a glory to our dear army but at the end of this list there is a space, that can be filled.
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This is a 1965 Mark Abramov and Victor Dobrovolsky Cold War Era Soviet propaganda poster touting the Soviet military achievement. A Soviet soldier, embracing a ballistic missile, unfurls the army 'service record'. The 'service record' takes the form of a scorecard, with commanding generals and leaders of Russia's enemies skewered on bayonets. Most of whom wear pained expressions, and some are easily recognizable, including Kaiser Wilhelm II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Hitler, among more stereotypically racist representations of Japanese, Turkish, and Persian potentates. The poster is intended to promote Soviet nationalism and confidence in face of growing anti-Soviet sentiment. (more details)
The Sea of the West and other wonders...
Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, Assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques.
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This is Jean Janvier's 1762 map of the world with a rich display of speculative cartography. Coverage embraces the world on a double hemisphere projection framed by elaborate baroque cartouche work. (more details)
By a Moldavian Prince.
A Plan of Constantinople.
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A scarce 1734 map of Istanbul / Constantinople and the Bosporus, issued to accompany Nicholas Tindal's publication of Demetrius Cantemir's History of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire. (more details)
Find any location in Buenos Aires using the index and the attached 'tape'.
Plano de Buenos Aires y Pueblos circunvecinos.
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This is a 1901 Cassoli and Bisleri city map of Buenos Aires, Argentina, featuring a novel attached tape measure to accurately calculate locations. In September 1900, Bisleri of Milan launched a contest (Concurso Reclame Bisleri) to create the best way to advertise two of their products: their aperitif liqueur (Hierro Quina Bisleri) and their natural carbonated mineral water (Nocera Umbra). In June 1901, they published the present map (complete with advertisements for both the liqueur and the mineral water), which had been designed by Mr. E. Cassoli. (more details)
Idyllic Island in the Potomac.
Cobb Island / Cobb Island Charles County, Maryland.
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A one-of-a-kind c. 1935 real estate map of Cobb Island, Maryland, prepared by Maryland Realty Investment Trust, promoting real estate investment and settlement on the island. (more details)
Original Northeast Corridor.
Historical Map of the Old York Road in Pennsylvania.
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A charming, scarce 1941 historical pictorial map of the Pennsylvania Old York Road by Howard Kohlbrenner, produced for the Old York Road Historical Society. (more details)
Celebrating the Century 21 Exposition.
[Seattle].
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An unusual 1962 map of Seattle, Washington, and its environs, produced in tandem with the Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World's Fair. It appeared in a guidebook titled Off-beat Guide to the Waterfronts, published by John M. Haydon's Marine Digest. (more details)