Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10902.000 is a part of image group 10902.000 . ""The New Age movements of the 1980's and 90's brought an alternative spirituality for many, bringing with it new beliefs with some old roots, and also some new leaders and shamanic type prophets. These prophets filled the roles that the ancients did before them supplying supernatural insights to what was coming. Gordon Michael Scallion, an electronics consultant...
Topic: Religion
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David Rumsey Map Collection
2,014
2.0K
Apr 3, 2022
04/22
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Howland, H.G.; Bourquin, F.; Oldach & Mergenthaler; Johnson, D. Griffing; Bracher, William; Keller, A.; Zuver, R.M.; Royce, S.H.; Campbell, A.W.; Sanborn, A.H.; McCartney, R.S.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2709.033 is a part of image group 2709.000 . Relief shown in hachures. Beautiful bird's eye view of county seat. Howland did only one other county atlas, Atlas of Hardin County, Ohio, next to Auglaize County. Maps in full hand painted color. US Atlases L5857.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10903.000 is a part of image group 10903.000 . ""The New Age movements of the 1980's and 90's brought an alternative spirituality for many, bringing with it new beliefs with some old roots, and also some new leaders and shamanic type prophets. These prophets filled the roles that the ancients did before them supplying supernatural insights to what was coming. Gordon Michael Scallion, an electronics consultant...
Topic: Religion
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7912.003 is a part of image group 7912.000 . Brochure.
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11838.003 is a part of image group 11838.000 . Pictorial map of Palm Springs and vicinity, on sheet 44x61, folded to 23x10.5. Panel title. Covers: Palm Springs, Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, La Quinta and Palm Desert. Shows roads, highways, railroads, golf courses,landmarks, places of interest and recreational activities of various areas. Includes pictorial cover, index to points of interest and text on...
Topics: Pictorial map, Tourism
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10579.000 is a part of image group 10579.000 . This poster was folded and included in the back pocket of volume five, the final volume of Kahn's "Das Leben des Menschen," a pioneering work on the human body as interpreted through info graphics - the body as a machine. The book illustrates the body's different functions through images of technical processes. From Taschen "Fritz Kahn Infographics Pioneer"...
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Topics: Pictorial map, Health, Disease
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.087 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, the third ring of 12 sheets, the fourth ring of 18 sheets, the fifth ring of 18 sheets, and the legends and diagrams in the four corners. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at...
Topics: Data Visualization, Art
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9045.000 is a part of image group 9045.000 . Date estimated. Shows naval bases and stations. Date estimated. A promotional piece for Mono Service Co., a wartime food service company. Color.
Topics: World War II, Political, Military
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3431.013 is a part of image group 3431.000 . Hand colored engraved view. Showing facial portraits from different parts of the world, and demonstrating racial and regional differences. The portraits are grouped under the headings: Asiatics, Australians, Europeans, Polynesians, Africans and Americans, and illustrate European perceptions of people indigenous to each area. Hand colored engraved 12 plates of general world...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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David Rumsey Map Collection
1,009
1.0K
Apr 2, 2022
04/22
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Map House & Indian Book Depot; Kaushal, B. S. (Biba Singh); Vir Milap Press
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14292.016 is a part of image group 14292.000 . Two colored maps of the Hyderabad State of India and Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. Shows political boundaries, major cities, railroads, roads, lakes, drainage and coastlines. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, a legend, bar scale and scale statement: 1" = 90 m. With two inset maps: Hyderabad : Physical -- Ceylon : Physical. Inset maps represent physical geography, showing...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3023.006 is a part of image group 3023.000 . Maps are bound in heavy yellow paper covers printed with "Ancient Atlas, To Accompany The Universal Geography. By William C. Woodbridge, And Emma Willard ... Maps By Emma Willard, Principal Of The Female Seminary At Troy. Hartford: Belknap And Hamersley..." Full color. Relief shown by hachures. To accompany Woodbridge's Modern Atlas. Scarce first edition, the earliest...
Topic: School
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12190.181 is a part of image group 12190.000 . This is a looseleaf atlas accompanied by a set of 4 volumes in English which includes both translations from German, and substitute original texts written specifically for the American audience. The text refers, for the purpose of illustrating things and concepts, individually to this large collection of plates and figures in Johann Georg Heck's Bilder - Atlas zum...
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David Rumsey Map Collection
1,628
1.6K
Apr 1, 2022
04/22
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Sleigh, Bernard, 1872-1954; W. Griggs & Sons
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11306.002 is a part of image group 11306.000 . Three sheet pictorial birds-eye view style panorama fantasy map of Fairyland, a fictive place. With 16 pages text, 18.5x12.5 with illustrations. Designed by Bernard Sleigh at the end of the Great War, an artist who studied at the Birmingham School of Art in England. The ancient map of Fairyland is said to have been his most famous work. The map was designed during the...
Topic: Pictorial map
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David Rumsey Map Collection
804
804
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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York, Alice.; Legrand, Edy, 1892-1970; Artcraft Lithograph and Printing Co.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14067.000 is a part of image group 14067.000 . Pictorial map of Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, in color. Shows medieval history with historical sites, such as the Great Wall of China, and events, such as "Arabs bring oriental culture to Spain". Descriptive text in margins, e.g.: Norse and Icelandic legends are preserved in "Sagas" and "Eddas". Text wraps the outermost edge, from "Fifth...
Topics: Pictorial map, Historical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1810.001 is a part of image group 1810.000 . Histomap is accompanied by a Foreword explaining the purpose and layout of the history. Map and Foreword slide into a green folder with title and relevant information, such as price, on the outside. See note field above.
Topics: Pictorial map, Historical, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6000.014 is a part of image group 6000.000 . A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C.. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats. Rosenberg and Grafton in "Cartographies of Time" say that as a timeline, Adams Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and...
Topic: Historical
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David Rumsey Map Collection
525
525
Apr 2, 2022
04/22
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Map House & Indian Book Depot; Vir Milap Press
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14292.010 is a part of image group 14292.000 . Colored map of the Central Provinces and Berar regions of India. Shows political boundaries, major cities, railroads, roads, lakes and drainage. Includes latitudinal and longitudinal lines, a legend, bar scale and scale statement: 1" = 64 m. With inset map: Physical. Inset map represents physical geography, showing elevation within the area of the main map with color...
Topic: Pictorial map
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David Rumsey Map Collection
1,153
1.2K
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Santarem, Manuel Francisco de.; Mauro, Fra
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11177.007 is a part of image group 11177.000 . Large circular planisphere on 6 sheets, 85x107 or smaller. Title from sheet 5. Reproduced and printed for the first time at the size of the original with all the legends and notations by Viscount of Santarém in 1854. The original 1450 map was fully described and reproduced in manuscript for the first time by William Frazer in 1804, Manuscript on vellum, BL Add. MS 1126. This...
Topic: Data Visualization
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David Rumsey Map Collection
1,451
1.5K
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Derrick, Thomas, 1885-1954; Bawden, Edward, 1903-1989; Underground Electric Railways Company Ltd.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13291.000 is a part of image group 13291.000 . "Rare pictorial map / advertising poster for promoting subway transportation to the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. The image illustrates Wembley's Football (soccer) Stadium in the center of the image surrounded by a multitude of people, places, disciplines, and activities representing the British Empire. The artist collaborators for the image were: Edward Bawden...
Topics: Pictorial map, Subways
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David Rumsey Map Collection
1,504
1.5K
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Debray Sucesores (Firm); Diaz de Leon, Francisco
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11439.007 is a part of image group 11439.000 . Folded color general plan of administrative divisions of Mexico City, 62 x 86, with 143 pages of explanatory text and index. Bound in heavy paper covers with cover title "Nueva subdivision de la ciudad Mexico en cuarteles y manzanas y correspondencia con la antigua. Map is based on the official sources of the Mexican government, was a part of the long sequence of...
Topic: Land Development
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11055.000 is a part of image group 11055.000 . Color map of the world. Azimuthal equidistant polar projection, tangent-North Pole. Date estimated. Shows naval base stations and air distances, relative local time at 15�� intervals. Includes notes and chart for determining "Scale in statute miles along parallels between 15 degrees of longitude." See note field above.
Topic: Airlines
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12380.002 is a part of image group 12380.000 . Date estimated. Color. Date estimated. The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo started iin Stellingen, a quarter in Hamburg, Germany. The collection began in 1863 with animals that belonged to Carl Hagenbeck Sr. (1810–1887), a fishmonger who became an amateur animal collector. The park itself was founded by Carl Hagenbeck Jr. in 1907. It is known for being the first zoo to use open...
Topics: Pictorial map, Zoological
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.012 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view, illustrating the science of electricity, electrostatics and conductivity, etc., by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5962.004 is a part of image group 5962.000 . Full color map. Countries in outline color. Note indicating: Name of cities are spelled in their conventional local form ... Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich. No. 90123456 on the lower right corner of the map. Atlas is bound in red color pictorial card board paper 33x24.5. Covers lightly worn and loose with chip to mid upper and side edges, reads "Rand...
Topic: World War II
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David Rumsey Map Collection
474
474
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Sleigh, Bernard, 1872-1954; W. Griggs & Sons
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11306.001 is a part of image group 11306.000 . Three sheet pictorial birds-eye view style panorama fantasy map of Fairyland, a fictive place. With 16 pages text, 18.5x12.5 with illustrations. Designed by Bernard Sleigh at the end of the Great War, an artist who studied at the Birmingham School of Art in England. The ancient map of Fairyland is said to have been his most famous work. The map was designed during the...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11841.003 is a part of image group 11841.000 . Color pictorial tourist map on Southern California on sheet 44x60, folded to 23x10. Panel title. Cities include: Los Angeles. Anaheim. Orange County. San Diego. Riverside. Santa Barbara. Santa Monica. Long Beach. Pasadena. Shows highway system, buildings, landmarks, universities, museums, ski areas, places of interest and recreational activities of various areas, etc. Includes...
Topics: Pictorial map, Tourism
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David Rumsey Map Collection
260
260
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Sparks, John B.; Rand McNally and Company; Higginson, Clark
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9869.002 is a part of image group 9869.000 . This is a companion chart to Spark's Histomap of History (see our 1810.000). The jacket designed by Clark Higginson. Text on back cover: "The Histomap of Evolution, by John B. Sparks." Evolution chart shows "Lines of descent and relative dominance of the several classes, orders and species of life." On the sides are a chronological list to "Geological...
Topics: Pictorial map, Data Visualization
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David Rumsey Map Collection
487
487
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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U.S. Geological Survey; Graham, Joseph; Newman, William; Stacy, John
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10627.000 is a part of image group 10627.000 . An imaginative visualization showing the relative time lengths of different geologic periods. Order a copy of this map here: https://store.usgs.gov
Topics: Pictorial map, Geology, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14062.000 is a part of image group 14062.000 . Pictorial map of West Point, on the Hudson River, New York, in bird's-eye view. Printed in black, on beige paper. Relief illustrated pictorially. Includes a compass rose and decorative cartouche, as well as banners throughout, locating sites. Portraits of historical figures and historical notes in the margins, e.g.: The Hudson River has been known as the - San Germano, Rio San...
Topics: Pictorial map, Historical, Military
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David Rumsey Map Collection
3,274
3.3K
Apr 2, 2022
04/22
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Black, Adam; Black, Charles; Hall, S.; Bartholomew, J.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1585.004 is a part of image group 1585.000 . American edition. Maps are printed in full color. Page edges in gilt. Relief shown by hachures.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7127.000 is a part of image group 7127.000 . Date estimated. Suitable for use in a large lecture hall; viewable to and beyond 40 feet. Language(s): English. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Projection is Lambert's conformal conic. Length of rolled wall map is 171 cm. Part of a series entitled, Denoyer-Geppert Visual-Relief Series. Topics include: topography, hydrography,...
Topics: Physical, Political
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11159.016 is a part of image group 11159.000 . Color pictorial maps, showing railroads, rivers, lakes, cities and towns, agricultural, industrial and recreational areas. Relief shown pictorially. 2 volumes from Coleccion "Billiken" Series. Date estimated. 23 color pictorial maps each with text, index and title page with index map, and coat of arms of the Argentine Republic above title. Maps showing railroads,...
Topics: Pictorial map, Commerce, Economics
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3884.012 is a part of image group 3884.000 . Full color by county or territory. Mitchell's first atlas, published in the first year of Mitchell's map publishing career. Mitchell purchased the plates for this atlas from Anthony Finley, who used them previously in his 1826 edition of his own atlas of the same title, "New American Atlas" (see our # 0278, 0279). Mitchell reissued the atlas with Mitchell's imprint on...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3388.001 is a part of image group 3388.000 . Map in color by tribe. Map extends from Alaska and Baffin's Bay in the north to Florida in the south. Accompanied by a color-coded key. The map, in addition to its abundant information regarding the Indian Tribes, shows J. Smith's route of 1827 across the Great Basin, one of the earliest American maps to do so. See the later version of this map published in 1848. Wheat 417;...
Topic: Indians
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12414.000 is a part of image group 12414.000 . Also shows route of the Great Northern Railway.
Topics: Exploration, Railroad
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6809.049 is a part of image group 6809.000 . Outline color map. Shows towns, inhabitants, telegraph cables, railways, etc. Ethnographic map includes explanation showing ethnicity by color. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Second and New edition of The Times Atlas published in 1900 (see our 1895 first edition, 1010.000), containing 132 pages of maps and comprising 196 maps and an...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.019 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Uncolored views of the moon as seen by Lord Rosses telescope, displayed as light area against a darker background. Includes explanatory text at the lower margin. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related...
Topic: Celestial
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11159.004 is a part of image group 11159.000 . Color pictorial maps, showing railroads, rivers, lakes, cities and towns, agricultural, industrial and recreational areas. Relief shown pictorially. 2 volumes from Coleccion "Billiken" Series. Date estimated. 23 color pictorial maps each with text, index and title page with index map, and coat of arms of the Argentine Republic above title. Maps showing railroads,...
Topics: Pictorial map, Commerce, Economics
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8975.001 is a part of image group 8975.000 . Date estimated.
Topics: Pictorial map, Historical
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David Rumsey Map Collection
446
446
Apr 1, 2022
04/22
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Hondius, Iodocus, 1563-1612; Nicolaus, Cornelius; Bottius, Adrianus
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11201.431 is a part of image group 11201.000 . Map of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Shows a small part of what is today Alaska and Korea as an island. Relief shown pictorially. The Atlas published by Ioannes Janssonius, in 1607 (2nd prelim. leaf, is dated March 1607. Pagination irregular), with 8 + 656 p.,152 black and white maps, 1 color map, text...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12190.138 is a part of image group 12190.000 . This is a looseleaf atlas accompanied by a set of 4 volumes in English which includes both translations from German, and substitute original texts written specifically for the American audience. The text refers, for the purpose of illustrating things and concepts, individually to this large collection of plates and figures in Johann Georg Heck's Bilder - Atlas zum...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12187.026 is a part of image group 12187.000 . Franz Ritter's 1660 editions of Speculum Solis (Mirror of the Sun) and Astrolabium bound as one volume with 8 plates for Speculum Solis and 15 plates for Astrolabium. First edtion for Speculum Solis was 1607 and for Astrolabium was 1613. Speculum Solis was Ritter's treatise on sundials with unusual maps on gnomonic projection that can be used as sundials. The first plate from...
Topic: Celestial
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David Rumsey Map Collection
594
594
Mar 31, 2022
03/22
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Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Mercator, Rumold, approximately 1545-1599
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10805.001 is a part of image group 10805.000 . This plate was originally published in 1595 in the posthumous part III of Mercator's Atlas. Verso: Latin text, 'Polus Arcticus Ac Terrarum Circumiacention descriptio' "The rare first state of Mercator's map of the North Polar regions, the first separately-published map of the North Polar Regions. It shows the North Pole surrounded by four islands, an iconic...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 0848.008 is a part of image group 0848.000 . Hand colored view. Shows reconstructions of extinct creatures in their established epocs prior to the creation of man, identified by a reference beneath the illustration. 12 plates 28.5x23, showing Geology and natural phenomena. Plates are dated 1946-1852. Art plates are hand colored, with vignettes. Plate 3 :"Diagram of meteorology" includes "Explanation on...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.032 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Hand colored engraved view of the comparative heights of mountains and volcanoes from around the world. Includes list of mountains and volcanoes beneath the view. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related...
Topics: Pictorial map, Data Visualization, Mountains, Rivers
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David Rumsey Map Collection
281
281
Apr 4, 2022
04/22
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Matthews-Northrup Division; J.W. Clement Co.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5963.019 is a part of image group 5963.000 . Full color map. With text indicating: Base map as of Sept. 1, 1939, the day Germany invaded Poland. Territorial change due to the war. Heavy red lines --boundaries as of Sept. 1, 1939, Dark green --Axis Powers, Light Green - -Axis occupied areas, Dark red --free United Nations, Light red --Countries controlled by United Nations. Shows capitals of countries and railroads. Relief...
Topic: World War II
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10043.001 is a part of image group 10043.000 . A highly pictorial Japanese world map.
Topic: Pictorial map
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David Rumsey Map Collection
122
122
Apr 4, 2022
04/22
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Topographic and Geologic Survey, Commonwealth of PA; Williams and Heintz Map Corporation
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7148.000 is a part of image group 7148.000 . Suitable for use in a standard classroom; viewable up to 40 feet. Language(s): English. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Projection is not specified. Part of a series entitled, Geological Survey, Fourth Series. Topics include: geology, hydrography, sources of geologic data, cross sections. Department of Geography, University of...
Topic: Geology
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14070.000 is a part of image group 14070.000 . Pictorial map of New Orleans, in color bird's-eye view. Shows significant sites and buildings (with names), as well as natural features in the vicinity, such as Lake Pontchartrain. Includes decorative title in the shape of brass instruments, and ornamental border. With descriptive text throughout, e.g.: This house is believed to be haunted. Map is 71 x 92, on sheet 73 x 98 cm.
Topics: Pictorial map, Tourism
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9115.000 is a part of image group 9115.000 . Date estimated. Date estimated. At least in part based on science fiction popular favorite Buck Rogers; lower border includes illustrations of Colonel Wilma Deering and Buck Rogers, characters originated by Philip Francis Nolan and who premiered in Amazing Stories, August, 1928. Character went on to be in a comic strip, film, and television. Killer Kane shows up beginning in...
Topics: Pictorial map, Celestial, Space
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12187.014 is a part of image group 12187.000 . Franz Ritter's 1660 editions of Speculum Solis (Mirror of the Sun) and Astrolabium bound as one volume with 8 plates for Speculum Solis and 15 plates for Astrolabium. First edtion for Speculum Solis was 1607 and for Astrolabium was 1613. Speculum Solis was Ritter's treatise on sundials with unusual maps on gnomonic projection that can be used as sundials. The first plate from...
Topic: Celestial
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.092 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Re-projected in Mercator used by Gerardus Mercator, 1569. Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, the third ring of 12 sheets, the fourth ring of 18 sheets, and the fifth ring of 18 sheets. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of...
Topic: Art
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8962.000 is a part of image group 8962.000 . Color.
Topics: Pictorial map, Oceans, Seas, Literary
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8145.000 is a part of image group 8145.000 . Colored pictorial view of the World from 9th Avenue is a 1976 illustration by Saul Steinberg that served as the cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of The New Yorker. The work presents the view from Manhattan of the rest of the world showing Manhattan as the center of the world. The illustration is split in two parts, with the bottom half of the image showing Manhattan's 9th...
Topics: Pictorial map, Satirical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.085 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, the third ring of 12 sheets, the fourth ring of 18 sheets, and the fifth ring of 18 sheets. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at 9 by 9 feet. This map is one of 3 examples...
Topic: Art
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13172.000 is a part of image group 13172.000 . Pictorial map in black and orange brown tone by W. J. Dittmar, An illustrator of Ragtime music sheets in the early 20th century. First published in 1932 in black and white for the Union Gospel Press. Depicts road through life which is portrayed as a theme park: people arriving at the entrance (lower left) in buses, cars or on foot (on in the case of the Speed Mad in the...
Topics: Pictorial map, Religions
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2674.000 is a part of image group 2674.000 . Shows great detail and accuracy. Wheat: "This is one of the best, as well as one of the rarest maps of the period." See also Trask's various Geological studies of California. Bancroft duplicate. Map is full color by county. Wheat Gold 246. Wheat, C.I. Maps of the Calif. gold region, 246; Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi west, v. 3, 796.
Topic: California Gold Rush
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8320.002 is a part of image group 8320.000 . This very graphic, lithographed gameboard is about journalist Nellie Bly's trip around the world in 1889-1890. Mounted on a heavy cardbord, backed with black paper, with decorative gold border. Game shows squares for each of the 73 days of her journey arranged in a circular pattern, flanked with images of Nellie Bly and Jules Verne are illustrated in the top left and right...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7909.002 is a part of image group 7909.000 . "B & O, Linking 13 Great States with the Nation". Double sided.
Topic: Railroad
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11159.042 is a part of image group 11159.000 . Color pictorial maps, showing railroads, rivers, lakes, cities and towns, agricultural, and industrial areas. Relief shown pictorially. 2 volumes from Coleccion "Billiken" Series. Date estimated. 23 color pictorial maps each with text, index and title page with index map, and coat of arms of the Argentine Republic above title. Maps showing railroads, rivers, cities...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9721.000 is a part of image group 9721.000 . Date estimated. Date estimated. No publisher, author or date.
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12047.000 is a part of image group 12047.000 . Date estimated. From a description of a similar Jain painting at the Johnson Museum at Cornell University: "This large painting consists of a map-like rendering of the middle world, one of three worlds that comprise the Jain universe. Located between the celestial realm and the lower world of the damned, this middle world is where mortals and all sentient beings live and...
Topics: Religions, Pictorial map, Celestial, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11831.002 is a part of image group 11831.000 . 3 detailed maps of road network in upper and lower Egypt, on one sheet, 76x101, folded to covers 20.5x13. Showing major cities, towns, villages, rivers, desert, cultivation and marshes. Includes location map and key map showing principal and desert roads and tracks, state and light railways. Distance table, text, illustrations, and advertisements on verso. See note field above.
Topics: Roads, Railroad
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10017.620 is a part of image group 10017.000 . 120 Milliaria Germanica communia = 6.8 cm Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Maior is considered by many to be the greatest atlas ever published, both in its own time and even today. It excels in comprehensiveness, engraving, color, and overall production. Each vol. has title page. with general title: Geographiæ Blavianæ volumen primum.... Each vol. has engraved special title page,...
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David Rumsey Map Collection
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Rand McNally and Company; Schlitz Brewing Company
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3490.008 is a part of image group 3490.000 . Full color. Shows United States with dates of annexation by region, and insets of Midway or Brooks Island, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Guam, Howland and Baker Islands, Wake Island, Samoa Islands, and Puerto Rico. Presents the U.S. side of the conflict. The maps are standard Rand McNally maps of the period, except for the Mexico map which has been overprinted in red to show the...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.011 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of lenses, refraction and reflection, eclipses, a diagram of the human eye, etc., by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved...
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Bazilevic, Konstantin Vasilevic; Golubcov, I.A.; Zinoveva, M.A.; Glavnoe upravlenie geodezii i kartografii MVD.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6400.005 is a part of image group 6400.000 . Full color political map of the world, with references and explanation of symbols. Historical Geography Atlas of Russia, issued in 3 parts. This part 3, includes 59 pages, text, table of contents, legend with explanation to the map symbols, index, and 48 color maps. Bound in heavy orange paper 31x25, printed with title " Atlas Istorii SSSR, Cast III." With black and...
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David Rumsey Map Collection
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14323.131 is a part of image group 14323.000 . Map of Tartary. Map includes title cartouche: A new description of Tartarie, by Robt. Morden. Shows political boundaries, cities, topography, drainage, coastlines and islands. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed and contains latitudinal and longitudinal lines. Map is 11 x 13 cm, on sheet 15 x 20 cm. Accompanied by descriptive text. Text spans pages 280-284. Geography rectified:...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4583.002 is a part of image group 4583.000 . Colorful map showing the eastern part of Minnesota Territory and the western part of Wisconsin. 2nd edition, the first being in 1855. No other editions listed in Karrow. The detail is very good and the graphic presentation is classic EB & F - the map jumps out at you. This map is a continuation on the same scale as the EB & F Map of Iowa, 1855 (our 4414) indicating that...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12058.038 is a part of image group 12058.000 . This book contains two of John Speed's most important atlases, "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine," and "A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World." Published by Bassett & Chiswell in 1676, it is a late edition of both works which were originally published in 1612 for the Theatre and 1627 for the Prospect. This edition of the Prospect...
Topic: Emblems (Flags, Coats-of-Arms)
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.005 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of Mechanical instruments, by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved by John Emslie. Some plates are numbered:...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11159.051 is a part of image group 11159.000 . Color pictorial maps, showing railroads, rivers, lakes, cities and towns, agricultural, and industrial areas. Relief shown pictorially. 2 volumes from Coleccion "Billiken" Series. Date estimated. 23 color pictorial maps each with text, index and title page with index map, and coat of arms of the Argentine Republic above title. Maps showing railroads, rivers, cities...
Topics: Pictorial map, Commerce, Economics
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12190.196 is a part of image group 12190.000 . This is a looseleaf atlas accompanied by a set of 4 volumes in English which includes both translations from German, and substitute original texts written specifically for the American audience. The text refers, for the purpose of illustrating things and concepts, individually to this large collection of plates and figures in Johann Georg Heck's Bilder - Atlas zum...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8259.002 is a part of image group 8259.000 . Uncolored pictorial map, 37x29 printed both sides, on sheet 53.5x37. Date estimated. Shows scenic areas and landmarks. lava flows with dates, roads, and trails. flowers and plants, Waiakea Mill, Coconut Island, Port of Hilo, Hilo High School, points of interest, boats and fish in the ocean. Includes notes, compass rose and distant chart form Hilo. Relief shown pictorially. On...
Topics: Pictorial map, Tourism
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3113.002 is a part of image group 3113.000 . 1st edition 1887, last 1892. "Senatorial Map" stamped next to Title. The Senatorial Districts are outlined in red, with the District number stamped in blue ink. Covers are gray cloth 18.5x10 stamped with "Ohio Railway Map" in gilt. See note field above. Karrow 2-2050.
Topic: Railroad
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