Week Fourteen

Title

Week Fourteen

Subject

Maps in Popular Culture

Contributor

Profs Campbell and Jakacki

Items in the Week Fourteen Collection

New Yorker Map of the World
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…

Latest war map of Europe : as seen through French eyes
- "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870 by L. Prang & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress of Washington."
- In lower margin: Britannia, full of Rage almost forgets Ireland. Spain, smoking, leans on poor Portugal.…

General Drafting Company/Standard Oil, Principal events in the life of George Washington (1932)
Full title: Principal events in the life of George Washington, in those states that lie between the Hudson and Savannah (1932)

From David Rumsey:
Principal events in the life of George Washington, in those states that lie between the Hudson and…

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

"Manhattan: Urban Urbanity"  from A More Perfect Union
A More Perfect Union is a large-scale artwork based online dating and the United States Census. In progress since 2008, the work attempts to create an alternative census, based not on socio-economic fact but on socio-cultural identity.