Week Nine

Title

Week Nine

Contributor

Profs Campbell and Jakacki

Items in the Week Nine Collection

Proposed Canadian Flag (Nov. 1964)
Design proposal for the new Canadian Flag, featuring three maple leaves.

Maine and Michigan, Arbuckles' Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America (1889)
4 maps (cards) to a page. All in full color with map surrounded by representative scenes from each state. Opposite each page of map cards are notes about each state shown. The state information includes population, weather, agriculture,…

Vermont, in Our U.S.A.: A Gay Geography (1935)
"An entertaining fanciful pictorial or cartoon atlas of the United States which includes a full color map and a page of historical and geographical text on each of the 48 states plus the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa and the…

Boston, Birthplace of the Telephone : A Pictorial Map of the Down Town Area
Pictorial map shows downtown Boston commemorating the centennial of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), who invented the telephone there in 1876 and co-founded the Bell Telephone Company the following year. The map is filled with drawings…

Hollywood Canteen, Sunset and Cahuenga (Map of Los Angeles)
Pictorial map of Los Angeles, California. Borders with places of interest in California. Shows roads and street, movie characters and studios, landmarks, sites to see and things to do at time of war. A cartouche decorated with small arms and…

Famous flights and air routes of the world
Colored pictorial wall map of the world, with metal edges top and bottom. Shows list of 25 famous flights, starting with Charles Lindbergh, shown top center. It also includes vignettes of 25 different planes and pilots from the early 1900's to…

Eagle Map of the United States
From Joseph Churchman's Rudiments of national knowledge : presented to the youth of the United States, and to enquiring foreigners. Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1833.
https://archive.org/details/rudimentsofnatio00chur/page/n3