Browse Items (12 total)

Isaac Moore, Joseph Churchman, Carey & Hart, Eagle Map of the United States, 1833

From Joseph Churchman's Rudiments of national knowledge : presented to the youth of the United States, and to enquiring foreigners. Philadelphia :…

Tags: iconography, nineteenth century, United States

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

Thomas H. Paschall & James Keily ; engraved & printed by Th. Leonhardt & J.H. Camp. (Philadelphia), Map of Union County, Pennsylvania : entirely from original surveys (1856), 1856

General-content county map also showing rural houses/buildings with householders' names.
Relief shown by hachures.
Shows road distances in…

Tags: county, Lewisburg, nineteenth century, Pennsylvania

S. Gurney Cresswell, A map illustrating Cresswell's arctic expedition (1854), 1854

From : A series of eight sketches in colour (together with a chart of the route), by Lieut. S. Gurney Cresswell, of the voyage of H.M.S. Investigator…

Tags: Arctic, British, climate change, nineteenth century

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Franco Moretti
Erik Steiner, The Emotions of London, 2016

Digital Humanities textual analysis of emotions in literature set in London, 1700-1900

Tags: eighteenth century, literary map, London, nineteenth century

O.H. Bailey & Co., O.H. Bailey & Co., Lewisburgh (1884), 1884

Bird's eye map. Copy hanging in Freas Admissions lobby. Available at the Library of Congress.

Tags: bird's eye map, commodity, nineteenth century, Pennsylvania

Arbuckle Brothers, Maine and Michigan, Arbuckles' Illustrated Atlas of the United States of America (1889), 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…

Tags: iconography, Maine, Michigan, nineteenth century

O.H. Bailey & Co. and D.D. Currie, Moncton, New Brunswick, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1890), 1890

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia bird's eye map with points of interest, and insets for Mahone Bay and Ritcey's Cove

Tags: bird's eye map, nineteenth century, Nova Scotia, property, urban

J.H. Meacham & Co. (Philadelphia), Illustrated Historical Atlas Of The Province Of Prince Edward Island (1880), 1880

(Views) Farm Res. of Saml. Drake & Son Wm. H. Drake, Pownal, Lot 49, P.E.I. "Park Corner," Res. of Hon. Don. Montgomery, Park Corner, Lot 21, P.E.I.…

Tags: Indigenous, nineteenth century, Prince Edward Island, property

Heber S. Thompson ("Engineer, Girard Estate"), Map showing the timber leases on the Girard Estate in Schuylkill & Columbia Co's, Pa. (1878), 1878

col. map 27 x 62 cm. Shows collieries and land holdings. "To accompany the report of the Board of Directors of City Trusts, January 1st, 1879."…

Tags: extraction, nineteenth century, Pennsylvania

John Moffat (engraver), John Cumming and John Thomson (publishers, Chart of North Atlantic Ocean (1817), 1817

Chart of North Atlantic Ocean with tracks of the shipping to West Indies, North America &ce. Engd. by J. Moffat, Edinr. (Drawn & engraved for…

Tags: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, nineteenth century, shipping, West Indes

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