"eye of faith and a little imagination" #Africa 1923. End of a hot day. Tired #surveyors want to go back to base camp. To finish a map they quickly add an #elephant shaped #contour (hill) on the NW corner, Sheet 17, Africa (Gold Coast) #British 1:62,500 #map series. tinyurl.com/y9wbzk7k #colonialism

#Napoleon threatens #Vienna (UR) at the end of the #War of the First Coalition. Sheet 5 of 30(!) sheet #map of #Italy, sold by early subscription 1797-1803 for 144 francs net. (3x10 #maps) Bacler d’Albe: prolific artist & mapmaker; dir. Dépôt de la #Guerre; Emperor's closest advisor.

We'll be at The Military Collectors Club of Canada convention next Saturday (June 27) at the #EdmontonInn from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. We'll have maps from #FWW, #WW2, and more. If you’re into #milhist, #collecting, or just like seeing cool old stuff, please stop by. #maps #antiquemaps

County atlases were sold by subscription. If you paid a little more, you could have your portrait, residence, or business featured. This _ #Atlas of the Counties of #Frontenac, #Lennox, and #Addington, #Ontario_ is full of dour Scots and impossibly neat farms. #maps #antiquemaps #Kingston #history

Unsigned Stanley Turner, "Strategic #War #Map", June 1941. Sponsored by #Westinghouse for the #Canadian home front. #MilitaryHistory #WWII #WW2 #History #cartography

"Picture #Map of #Mexico." Map & illustrations by Janet Smalley & Jeanne McLavy; text by Mary Lago. 38x48" Pub'd 1951 by Friendship Press, the publishing arm of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Rare! Only 2 on OCLC & no dealer listings. #maps #missionary #Evangelical

#Map of #Sicily showing salt mines, salt pans, and sulphur deposits. c. 1901 #antiquemap #maps #Italy

" #Map of the Asiatic Part of #USSR." (Moscow, 1935) Pre-war #Soviet #Asia includes the #Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobijan ( #Birobidzhan), a divided #Sakhalin Island, and the Republic of #Tuva. A Stalinist map in English! ??? #antiquemap #maps

#Map of #Greece and vicinity, showing the classical #geography of the #Greeks, according to #Homer and #Hesiod. Published in Firenze by V. Batelli e Compagni, 1842. Shows the travels of the #Argonauts and #Ulysses #Homer #Odysseus #Odyssey #OdysseyMaps www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...

Welcoming comments on where this fits in the #historiography. Definitely not a general #history of the #war. Should it have the subtitle: The Soviet Takeover of the Republican Cause ? Not disputing his conclusions but it's a *lot* more focused than I expected. #HistBookChat #MilitaryHistory #Spain

_ #Polar Regions Including British North America &c._ 1829. Shows the results of Franklin's overland journeys along the Coppermine and Mackenzie Rivers as well as Parry and Ross's early work further north. #MapMonday #antiquemaps #maps #Canada

A double-hemisphere map of the world, c.1770, shows a poorly understood #Australia/ Micronesia, De Fonte's mythical #NWPassage, and a misaligned #Japan. #maps #antiquemaps #mappemonde

"Humboldt’s Distribution of Plants in Equinoctial America, According to Elevation Above the Level of the Sea." 1840. Repro of Humboldt's influential 1805 chart comparing elevation with plant species on Ecuador's, Mount #Chimborazo. #maps #antiquemaps #botany www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pion...

Inset of the #Moon from the 1964 _Astrosolar #Map_ by #GeneralElectric. #Artemis

Now when I was a young'n, we wore an onion on our belt 'cuz that was the style. And we got to the #Moon by steamship. #Artemis #NASA #space

Van Langren's estimate of longitude vs. those of his predecessors. Google says the correct distance is 177 to 180 German miles.

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#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 📅Mar, 1628 [no day] Michael Florent van Langren presented the FIRST STATISTICAL GRAPH, in a letter to Isabella of Spain [Friendly-etal:2010] A simple 1D dot plot, showing the 'extravagent errors' in estimates of longitude 👀 bit.ly/3DXaBZJ for the story

Details of the #StraitofHormuz from the "Geological Map of #SaudiArabia. I-270A, 1963. Produced by the #USGS and the Arabian American Oil Company ( #Aramco ), sponsored by the Saudi Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. #antiquemaps #maps #Iran

I don't think Anastasia #Romanov has ever received enough credit for inventing the bullet-proof dress. #History #FWW #Russia

A rare copy of Vergil’s _Anglica Historia_, with 4 ms. maps has come on the market. Previously owned by #QueenMary, "...the book and its #maps are perhaps the most significant artifact of #Tudor intellectual history still in private hands." #antiquemaps

Rare Atlas Owned by Queen Mary I Could Sell for $1.6 Million

When a savvy book dealer bought an atlas that Queen Mary I of England once owned, they weren't expecting to find the first maps of Britain.

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When #SherwoodPark was tiny. I always found the street naming system maddeningly vague: birds, the letter G, trees, the letter V... #antiquemaps #maps #ShPk #Strathco #YEG

Love the way the old 170th St. overpass is shown on this 1982 #map by the #Edmonton Real Estate Board. The overpass came down a few years after this and traffic entering the city was routed down 100 Ave. #antiquemaps #YEG

#antiquemaps #maps #devon #tudor

Rare Tudor map on display in Devon

A colourful depiction of a South Hams town, dating back to Tudor times, has arrived at Devon Heritage Centre

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Janvier's 1780 map of the Americas features the mythical Sea of the West. #Mendicino CA is just below. #maps #antiquemaps

The trials and tribulations of Sanborn map surveyors. #maps #antiquemaps #history

Sanborn to Run: Overcoming Workplace Obstacles for Fire Insurance Surveyors | Worlds Revealed

Sanborn Map Company fire insurance surveyors successfully mapped many thousands of cities and towns across North America, but they were often viewed with suspicion by locals and they were not granted ...

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Nicely fills a yawning gap in the #FWW literature. I disagree that it came down to one day. The longer it went on, the less 🇩🇪 could exploit a breakthrough. All new to me except in the broadest outlines. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #histbookchat #Booksky #GreatWar #WW1

Doing #history or #genealogy in #Alberta, #Saskatchewan, or #Manitoba? These 'New Series' #WesternCanada Sectional #Maps are a great resource at 3 miles to the inch. Series runs 1902 - 1955 though most start around 1916. Courtesy SANDS @ U of Calgary. #AntiqueMaps

Rare bomb aimer's #map from the #dambusters raid sold today for £2600! #antiquemaps #WW2 #WWII #RAF #617Squadron #BomberCommand

Rare Dambusters map set to soar at auction - Hansons Auctioneers

A map used in the legendary WWII Dambusters raid is set to fetch up to £1,000 at Hansons’ militaria sale on November 12 — a rare link to one of history’s most daring missions.

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#Montreal "Star War Map, c. 1918. Map of the #WesternFront surrounded by 41 #CEF regimental insignia with 4 'valour' medals in the corners. 12miles = 1" #Maps #Antiquemaps #WW1 #FWW #LestWeForget #Remembrance #PPCLI

Yesterday in History: Nov. 9, 1989 The #BerlinWall fell. Collapsed? Something about the passive tense makes it all sound like shoddy Soviet construction so we'll go with 'was toppled.' #maps #Antiquemaps #exclave #ColdWar

The reverse of the Westinghouse Pacific map. Turner's maps were largely intended for a Canadian audience and tend to focus more on the #Commonwealth than US #maps. Shown here are Japanese advances into #Indonesia, NE #China, and #Burma. #antiquemaps #WW2 #WWII #remembrance #history