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Slate11y
A Detail-Packed Mid-19th-Century Map of World Religious Belief
Find out more about what this space is all about here. This 1854 map of world religion appeared as part of an atlas published in Scotland by cartographer Alexander Keith Johnston. The map ...
Gizmodo11y
A map of 19th Century shipping routes and nothing else
The map that emerges highlights not ... used “to answer questions from the 1960s about 19th century America.” A Luminescent Map of the World’s Earthquakes Since 1898 This gorgeous world ...
Gizmodo13y
Hand-drawn maps made by 19th-century school children
The results are sometimes creative reinterpretations of the world’s geography. Although some students still draw maps today, map-drawing was especially popular in 19th-century schools (and ...
Daily Mail5y
When California was nothing but fields: Incredible 19th Century maps reveal startling transformation of America's biggest cities – although St Louis and Philadelphia were ...
These incredible late 19th century maps offer a glimpse into the urban ... The map also displays the proposed site of the 1892 World's Exposition - a world's fair celebrating technological ...
National Geographic news8y
19th-Century Schoolgirls Were Incredibly Good at Drawing Maps
The beautifully detailed, early 19th-century map of the United States pictured ... themselves artistically at a time when their whole world was dominated by men,” says Stephanie Cyr, co-curator ...
The Sun6y
Fascinating 19th century map of London shows capital as tiny city with south and east almost uninhabited
The pre-industrial revolution capital was still the largest in the world at the time - but appears an oasis of green compared to today's urban jungle A REMARKABLE early 19th century map of London ...
The Forward12y
Rare 19th Century Map of Jerusalem Unearthed
is intended to conduct a profound reappraisal of the cartography of 19th-century Palestine between the years 1830-1880. The rediscovered map is highly significant. “It was sketched by hand by a ...
Hyperallergic11y
A 19th-Century Map of the Geology Hidden Beneath NYC Streets
One of the more intriguing items is a geologic map of Manhattan from 1898, showing the geological terrain of the land alongside the 19th century city ... still a geological world beneath all ...