Browse Items (380 total)

Geological Survey (U.S.)
Pennsylvania. Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey.
, Union County, Pennsylvania (1993), 1993

- Relief shown by contours and spot heights.
- Alternate title at lower right: Union Co., Pa.
- "Map edited 1993."
- In upper margin: United…

Tags: geological survey, Pennsylvania, scientific mapping, twentieth century

Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, U.S. Navy, Ice Chart, Grand Banks Region, September, October (1946)
, 1946

Atlas provides colored monthly maps detailing the extent and character of the ice for each principal region of the Northern Hemisphere known to have…

Tags: climate change, twentieth century

Karonhí:io Delaronde and Jordan Engel, Turtle Island in Mohawk, The Decolonial Atlas (2015), The Decolonial Atlas, 2015

Indigenous reclaiming/naming of the territories of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy

Tags: Colonization, Indigenous, Iroquoian

General Drafting Co. Inc.
, Trip - planning map of the United States (1950): Know Your America, 1950

"The Heritage of every American reaches across a continent: Trip - planning map of the United States"
Text Page/ Map: Trip - planning map of the…

Tags: highways, Tourism, twentieth century, United States

Aaron Carapella, Tribal Nations Map

This map represents the original pre-contact homelands of the hundreds of tribal nations that existed across what is now Canada and the "lower 48" of…

Joe Nickell, Treasure Map of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, 1999-2000

Further information: "The Secrets of Oak Island" (Skeptical Inquirer Volume 24.2, March / April 2000)…

Tags: commodity, Nova Scotia, twentieth century

Chris Lund, National Film Board, Trans-Canada Highway (1952), 1952

Couple consulting a road map in front of the Trans-Canada highway sign, intersection of highways 15 & 17, Ottawa, Ontario (July 1952). NFB still by…

Tags: Canada, highways, twentieth century

Beers, Ellis & Soule, Town of New Canaan, Fairfield Co., Conn., 1867

Atlas Of New York And Vicinity From actual Surveys by and under the direction of F.W. Beers, assisted by Geo. E. Warner & others. Published By F.W.…

Tags: Connecticut, Fairfield County, New Canaan, nineteenth century

Torrey Township, Yates County, New York

#7

Topographical Map of Block Island, 1886

Topographical

J.H. Stuart & Co., Timber lands 4., 1894

Stuart's map of the timber lands of Maine. No. 4. (1894)

R. Baldwin Junr., Thomas Kitchen Nova Scotia 1749, 1749

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by hachures. Includes illustrated cartouche. LC copy mounted on cloth backed paper. Available also through the…

Tags: 1700s, Nova Scotia, practice

M. Harris, Thomas Jeffereys, Thomas Jefferys’s ‘A New Map of Nova Scotia,’ 1750., 1760

"Depiction of the critical British base at Halifax, Nova Scotia produced less than a year after its establishment."

New York World, The World's globe circler "Gameboard, based on Jules Verne's Around the world in 80 days", 1890

This very graphic, lithographed gameboard is about journalist Nellie Bly's trip around the world in 1889-1890. Mounted on a heavy cardbord, backed…

The White Fleet, 1897

The westward expansion of the United States, General Drafting Company, 1958

Westward expansion

The Weekly Register

Norwich, Connecticut April 9, 1793

Unknown, The Toronto Purchase (1805 indenture), 1805

A plan of the 1805 revision [Crown Treaty no. 13] of the land acquired from the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation.

Note "maple tree" as…

Tags: Canada, Indigenous, nineteenth century, survey

David Booth, The Tate Gallery by Tube, 1987

The Tate Gallery by Tube, by David Booth of the agency Fine White Line, 1987

Thomas Jefferys, The Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire. (Southern section), 1776

A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England, containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Conecticut And…

Tags: eighteenth century, Massachusetts, New England