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Boston's Beautiful (and Brutalist) Architecture.
Boston.
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A large pictorial 'city character print' view of Boston, Massachusetts, produced by Archar Inc. in 1982. (more details)
Atomic Age and Lake Mead.
Panoramic Perspective of the Area Adjacent to Las Vegas - Hoover Dam and Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
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A stunning Gerald A. Eddy bird's-eye view map of Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Las Vegas, and environs, produced in 1958 for the Union Pacific Railroad. It captures the region at the height of the Atomic Age, when Las Vegas became a tourist haven and nearby parts of Nevada became testing grounds for nuclear weapons. (more details)
Ephemeral plans for a new Thirteenth Avenue.
Map showing the perimeters of farms in Bloomingdale and the old roads and lanes as they existed one hundred years ago : belonging to the Cozine, Harson, Hopper, Hegeman, Stake, Stryker, Eden, Tevon, Haynes, Horsmanden, Reis, Kelly, Webber, Cutting, Astor, Emmett and other families.
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1879 cadastral map of Midtown West, including Times Square and the Theater District. It captures the area during a brief period of widespread development and redistricting. (more details)
Longest electric railroad in the country!
Birdseye View of San Leandro, Cal. 1892. Showing Subdivisions on the Electric R.R. Between San Leandro and Oakland.
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This is an 1892 broadside bird's-eye view of San Leandro, California, published by M. J. Laymance. Issued the year of the Oakland, San Leandro, and Haywards Electric Railway's inauguration, the central view looks over San Leandro from the south. (more details)
Center of the Islamic world.
[Mecca / مكة المكرمة].
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This is a rare c. 1900 Raja Ravi Varma chromolithograph view of the city of Mecca (مكة المكرمة), the Masjid al-Haram (اَلْمَسْجِدُ ٱلْحَرَامُ), and the Kaaba (ٱلْكَعْبَة ), Saudi Arabia. Unlike most other Varma views of the 'The Holy Capital', this is a proper city view, which although focused on the Masjid al-Haram, embraces a significant part of the surrounding city and mountains. Centered on the Kaaba (ٱلْكَعْبَة ), the view illustrates the Great Mosque during the Ottoman Period, when it had 7 minarets. The view was printed in Lonavala, India, by Raja Ravi Varma Press, one the first Indian owned and operated presses on the Subcontinent. (more details)
Civil War Veterans - a home.
National Soldiers Home, Near Dayton, Ohio.
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A rare 1878 Adolph Krebs chromolithograph view of the National Soldier's Home (National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) near Dayton, Ohio. The view looks west and slightly north on the campus from a high point to the west of the home, a region today called Highview Hills. (more details)
Civil War Sketch of Cape May.
[Cape May Lighthouse].
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A curious c. 1862 American Civil War era view of Cape May, New Jersey. The view focuses on what we believe to be the Cape May lighthouse during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). (more details)
Important Revolutionary War view of the Great New York Fire of 1776.
Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck.
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A remarkable 1776 Franz Habermann vue d'optique or Lantern Print offering a European artist's conception of the Great New York Fire of 1776. The view depicts parts of downtown New York, near Broadway, the original Stock Exchange, the original Kings College, and Trinity Church, fully engulfed in flames. British soldiers, dressed in their signature red coats are savagely beating the city's panicked inhabitants while African slaves take advantage of the opportunity to loot the blazing buildings. (more details)
Trains and Trees.
'Johnson's' Section Map and Index of the New England States. / Johnson's Complete Index Map of the New England States.
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A detailed large-format sectional pocket map of New England, based on an 1883 map by G.W. and C.B. Colton and published in 1884 by Thomas R. Johnson in Boston. (more details)
World War I pictorial handkerchief, a memento for British soldiers.
It's a Long, Long, Way to Tipperary, My Heart's Right There.
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This is a c. 1914 pictorial handkerchief of the British Isles illustrating the connection between British soldiers deployed on the Western Front in World War I (1914 - 1918) and their wives/sweethearts back home in Britain. (more details)
City of Roses.
City of Pasadena California.
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A detailed 1941 map of Pasadena, California, drawn by John L. Lynde and published by Login Printing and Binding for the Union National Bank of Pasadena. (more details)
A rare broadside promoting M.K. Paine's Green Mountain Balm - a medical miracle!
View of Ascutney Mountain Taken From High Bridge at Claremont, N.H.
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This is an 1868 Milton K. Paine broadside advertising view of Mount Ascutney, Vermont. Ascutney is a monadnock, a type of mountain that rises isolated from surrounding mountains. Paine, a Vermont druggist and apothecary, maintained a shop in Windsor, Vermont, at the base of the mountain. Today, Mount Ascutney is regarded as the best hang-gliding location in the Northeastern United States and also hosts the Ascutney Mountain Resort, first opened in the years after World War II (1939 - 1945). (more details)
One week after the German invasion of Western Europe.
Europe's Armed Sea!
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This is a 1940 Rand McNally and Chicago Sunday Tribune map of Europe during World War II (1939 - 1945). This map, published on May 19, 1940, appeared nine days after Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. It highlights fortifications and air and naval bases throughout Europe and across the Mediterranean Sea in Europe and the Middle East. (more details)
Cab services in the Great Depression.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
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This is a 1935 Western Map Company city map of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, issued for Milwaukee's Yellow Cab Company to advertise its services and rates. The map appeared at the height of the Great Depression, when cab services took on an essential role in supplementing incomes and a reduction in private transport. (more details)
Beginnings of American commercial chart publishing.
General Chart of the West Indies from the latest Marine Journals and Surveys.
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An important c. 1789 - 1794 nautical map of the West Indies, Florida, the Bahamas, and the Gulf of Mexico littoral by Osgood Carleton and John Norman. This is the second edition of John Norman's first published nautical chart, representing one of the first instances of post-Revolutionary American commercial chart making, predating the publication of the Clark Pilot by several months. (more details)
Shanghai's Pre-WWII Golden Age.
The Nem Map of Shanghai. / 'Recently Measured New Map of Shanghai.' / 最近实测上海新地图
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This is the 1917 bilingual 'Nem' map of Shanghai, China by Jin Feng She (金鳳社) / Chojiro Shimazu (島津長治郎). The map captures Shanghai's pre-WWII golden age, when it was a cosmopolitan center of international commerce, and a hotbed of wild excess. (more details)
The Aegean Sea during the Venetian-Ottoman War of 1714-1718.
Paskaart Van de Archipelagusche Eylanden.
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An attractive old color c. 1717 Johannes van Keulen nautical chart or maritime map of the northern Aegean, Sea of Marmara, and the surrounding islands. Although critical to regional trade, the Aegean at this time was a hotbed of piracy - much associated with the ongoing Venetian-Ottoman War of 1714-1718. (more details)
New England Railroads.
Colton's Railroad and Township Map of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, with Parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
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This is a rare 1873 G.W. and C.B. Colton railroad map of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. (more details)
Manhattan south of Kips Bay.
Map of the City of New-York. Drawn by D.H. Burr for 'New York as it is in 1846'.
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This is an 1846 David Hugh Burr and 'Homans and Ellis' city map of Manhattan, New York City. (more details)
Automobile Tourism in Historic Virginia.
Virginia Showing the Geography and Physical Features of the State.
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This large, colorful map of Virginia was produced in 1929 for the Virginia Conservation Commission to promote tourism. Its publication coincided with the rise of automobile culture and statewide ambitions to capitalize on the great American road trip. (more details)