1910 | Topographic Maps | Map Symbols | Egypt
The Survey of Egypt, 1910, 1:1,000,000, Sheet 5 (detail 1, close-up) ••• Found while cleaning out an old map cabinet: oceans of just about nothing, punctuated by signs of a minimal landscape. Soiled,...
View ArticleHand-sketched Glacial Landform Maps II
Among the most expressive of map making tools are pencils, pens and other analog devices. The certainty of the topographic map contrasts with the precursory aesthetic of the hand drawn annotations....
View ArticleHand-sketched Glacial Landform Maps III
Among the most expressive of map making tools are pencils, pens and other analog devices. The certainty of the topographic map contrasts with the precursory aesthetic of the hand drawn annotations....
View ArticleHand-sketched Glacial Landform Maps I
Among the most expressive of map making tools are pencils, pens and other analog devices. The certainty of the topographic map contrasts with the precursory aesthetic of the hand drawn annotations....
View ArticleHand-sketched Glacial Landform Maps IV
Among the most expressive of map making tools are pencils, pens and other analog devices. The certainty of the topographic map contrasts with the precursory aesthetic of the hand drawn annotations....
View ArticleMap Posters | Spain | Germany | 1917-1936
Catalonian Health Administration Areas (1936-39) ••••• Foreign interests allied against the Spanish Republic (1937) ••••• Aragon Front of the war: Republican gains shown as broken barbed wire,...
View ArticleJapanese Maps | Tokugawa Era | 1600-1870
Fujimi jūsanshū yochi zenzu (Map of the thirteen provinces from which Mt. Fuji is visible) 1843 | Edo : Yamashiroya Sahei Source •••••••••• Kaihō Kai no Kuni ezu (Pocket map of Kai Province) 1842 |...
View ArticleAtlas de Cuba | 1949 | Gerardo Canet & Erwin Raisz
This Atlas is more than an attempt to describe Cuba. Our aim is not only to present the setting in which the drama of Cuban life is played but to show how this life itself changes its own setting,...
View ArticleMapa de los Paisajes de Cuba | Map of the Landscapes of Cuba | 1949 | Gerardo...
The Atlas de Cuba by Gerardo Canet and Erwin Raisz, featured in a recent posting here, is accompanied by a large color map entitled Mapa de los Paisajes de Cuba (Map of the Landscapes of Cuba). The...
View ArticleGilpin’s Map of the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity Round the World +...
Map of the World. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal forms of the continents: the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity Round the World; and the Line of Cosmopolitan Railway and...
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