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The 'Barefoot Fathers' on the Malabar Coast.
Carte des missions des pères Carmes Déchaussés dans les Royames de Travancore et de Cochin au Malabar (Indes Anglaises).
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An impressive 1892 chromolithograph map of the Malabar Coast, including Travancore and Cochin, India, illustrating the missions of the Discalced 'barefoot' Carmelite Fathers. The map was likely issued to celebrate the founding of the Thiruvananthapuram Monastery. (more details)
Early railroads of New England.
Map of Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island constructed from the latest authorities.
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A hand-colored 1838 pocket map of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, published by Flavius Brown and Edward Parsons. It captures the region in the early days of the railroad boom, when both canals and railroads were being proposed and built at a frenetic pace. (more details)
Japan explores the world!
世界漫遊スコロク / World Adventure.
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A rare 1932 Showa 7 Japanese manga world map and sugoroku game board. The map celebrates Japanese curiosity about the world and its peoples, but at the same time, hints darkly at imperial ambitions. (more details)
Published the day the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. V-E Day + 13 Weeks - 190th Week of U.S. Participation in the War. Monday, 6 August, 1945. Week of 24 July to 31 July. Volume IV No. 16F. 'In a few months we expect to run out of targets in Japan.' / Special Devices.
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This August 6, 1945 Newsmap illustrates the World War II (1939 - 1945) U.S. strategic bombing campaign against Japan. August 6, also corresponds to the world's first use of an Atomic Bomb against the Japanese at Hiroshima - although that fact is not presented here and was likely not known to the mapmakers. (more details)
Visual summary of the U.S.A.
The United States of America.
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This is a 1935 Ernest Dudley Chase pictorial map of the United States. Vignettes mark cities, towns, natural wonders, and economic successes. Illustrations of capitol buildings mark state capitals. Trains, airplanes, blimps, and other modern forms of transportation zip from coast to coast. Oil derricks, factory smokestacks, and mines highlight American industry, alongside Hoover Dam. Vignettes of farms and ranches promote American agriculture. World-renowned sites, including Mesa Verde, Carlsbad Caverns, Yellowstone National Park, and the Grand Canyon are all illustrated. Views of important buildings appear above and below the map and among the highlighted sites are the Lincoln Memorial, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Statue of Liberty, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Los Angeles. (more details)
Mount Everest with manuscript notations about a trek!
Khumbu Himal.
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This is a striking 1985 Helmut Heuberger and Working Group for Comparative High Mountain Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung) map of Mount Everest and vicinity. Red manuscript notations trace the route followed by an expedition through the mountains, eventually reaching the top of the Khumbu Glacier within sight of Everest. (more details)
Visit Florida's amazing sites!
Standard Oil Pictorial Guide to Florida.
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This is a charming 1953 General Drafting pictorial tourist map of Florida. Pictorial vignettes populate the map from southern Georgia to Key West and highlight tourist attractions, state parks, and numerous other locations. Among these are the University of Florida, Florida State University, Silver Springs, the New Smyrna Ruins, Highlands Hammock State Park, the Ringling Museum of Art, and, of course, Everglades National Park. An inset map situated in the lower left corner focuses on the Overseas Highway, while a large text box in the Gulf of Mexico provides sightseers with information about sites throughout the state. An inset of St. Augustine appears along the top border, along with temperature maps of Florida in July and January. (more details)
The culmination of the Coast Survey's work in New York Harbor.
Bay and Harbor of New York.
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This 1874 double-sized nautical map of New York City represents the ultimate expression of the Coast Survey's work in and around New York harbor. Its refined detail provides not only state-of-the-art navigational information, but also a valuable record of land usage and development. (more details)
Illustrates the historic heart of St. Lawrence University.
St. Lawrence University Canton N.Y.
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This is a c. 1913 Richard Rummell view of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. The view illustrates St. Lawrence from a fictional highpoint above the intersection of Park Street and University Avenue. A beautiful grove of trees occupies the immediate foreground and Herring-Cole Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus, appears to the left. The oldest building on campus, Richardson Hall, is to the right of and behind Herring-Cole Hall, and students can be seen walking along the pathway leading from Richardson Hall. Piskar Hall and Payson Hall appear near the right border, and Carnegie Hall is the building to the left of these two buildings and behind them. Both Richardson Hall and Herring-Cole Hall are on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Old Campus Historic District, which includes many of the buildings illustrated here. Some of the buildings seen here no longer stand. (more details)
Steeped in history.
City of Savannah and vicinity.
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A large and detailed 1956 David Byck city map of Savannah, Georgia, with a map of Chatham County on the verso. It depicts the city in a period of transition while also alluding to its long history as one of the first non-indigenous settlements in the American South. (more details)
A double-sided French pictorial map illustrating the plants and animals of North America and Asia.
L'Amérique du Nord Végétation et Faune. / L'Asie Végétation et Faune.
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This is a 1960 Jean Anscombre double-sided pictorial map of the plants and animals of North America and Asia. Depicting the entirety of North America on the recto and the entirety of Asia on the verso, the maps are strikingly colored and wonderfully illustrated. (more details)
French chocolatier's promotional world travel contest!
Le Tour du Monde en 120 Images Grand Concours de Chocolat Menier.
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This is a stunning 1957 pictorial map of the world drawn by J. B. Jannot and issued by Chocolat Menier to boost interest in the fading French chocolate giant. The map allows its reader to follow Jacqueline, Chocolat Menier's adorable 'little girl' mascot, on a great tour du monde (tour of the world) starting and finishing in Paris. (more details)
The First Byrd Expedition's discoveries.
Map of the Queen Maud Mountains Between Longitudes 175° and 135° W. From the Surveys of The Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
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This is a 1931 American Geographical Society map of the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. Named by Roald Amundsen after the Norwegian queen Maud of Wales, the Queen Maud Mountains are a group of mountains, ranges, and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains. They are situated between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and run from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau. (more details)
The Old City following the Six-Day War - in Hebrew.
ירושלים - העיר העתיקה / [Jerusalem, the Old City].
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This is a 1967 city plan or map of Jerusalem's Old City originally produced by Frederick John Salmon and reissued with Hebrew text by the Survey of Israel. This edition was published in the wake of the 1967 Six-Day War, when East Jerusalem including the Old City came under Israeli occupation. (more details)
The romance of a 'savage paradise'.
Map of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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This is John Thomson's 1816 map of the Polynesia and the South Pacific. It is one of the few early 19th century maps to focus on Polynesia, despite, in the wake of Cook's travels (and gruesome death), the area being heavily romanticized as an savage paradise in the minds of the British public. (more details)
Enticing fur traders.
Chart of the Northern Passage Between Asia and America.
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This is John Thomson's 1816 map of the Bering Strait. It is one of the earliest atlas maps to give attention to the northern Alaskan coastline. (more details)
A colorful map of Old Havana.
Plano de La Habana y Mapa Completo de la Carretera Central / City Map of Havana and Complete Road Map of the Island.
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A scarce, colorful, bilingual 1945 map of Havana, Cuba, published by Francisco Rojo y Garcia (Frank Rojo), with a road map of Cuba on the verso. Aside from providing a snapshot of the city in the years before the Socialist Revolution, it also is a testament to the closeness of U.S.-Cuba relations in this period. (more details)
Sweden's Age of Greatness.
Carte des Courones du Nord Dediée au tres puissant et tres invincible Prince Charles XII, Roy de Suede, des Gots et des Vandales, Grand Duc de Finlande etc, etc, etc. Par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur Guillaume De l'Isle Premier Geogr. du Roy de l'Academ. Rle. des Sciences.
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This is Guillaume de l'Isle's magnificent 1706 two-sheet map of Scandinavia, highlighting the empire of King Charles XII of Sweden. It captures the Kingdom of Sweden during the last reign of its 'Age of Greatness' at the height of the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721). The map further illustrates the degree to which early cartographers struggled to keep pace with evolving political events. The image above is a composite, but the map is in two separate sheets - as apparent in the subsequent photos. (more details)
A beautifully executed and detailed map of the Dutch trade routes into Russia.
Russiae, vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentrionalis. Auctore Isaaco Massa.
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This is a superb example of Blaeu's 1640 map of Muscovy north of the Volga, and the northernmost parts of Russia. It represents the best Dutch knowledge of Russia in the first part of the 17th century. (more details)
All roads lead to London.
Bowles's road director through England and Wales; being a new and comprehensive display of the roads and distances from town to town, and of each remarkable place from London.
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An impressive 1800 Bowles and Carver map highlighting the system of roads of England and Wales, including the dense network emanating from London. (more details)