Browse Items (19 total)

Government of Canada Travel Bureau, Adventure Along the Trans-Canada Highway, 1961

Image of woman reading map beside Lake Superior on the (relatively new) Trans-Canada Highway.

Tags: Canada, Tourism, transportation, twentieth century

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

General Drafting Company for Standard Oil, General Drafting Company/Standard Oil, Principal events in the life of George Washington (1932), 1932

Full title: Principal events in the life of George Washington, in those states that lie between the Hudson and Savannah (1932)

From David…

Tags: pictorial, popular culture, public memory, twentieth century

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

George Philip, The North Atlantic Ocean, 1905

2nd edition, 1905 Philip's Philips' Mercantile Marine Atlas. Edited by George Philip. Published by George Philip & Son and London Geographical…

Tags: shipping, transportation, twentieth century

George Philip, English Channel, 1905

2nd edition, 1905 Philip's Philips' Mercantile Marine Atlas. Edited by George Philip. Published by George Philip & Son and London Geographical…

Tags: England, shipping, transportation, twentieth century

Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, Great Britain. Ordnance Survey: Sheet 124. King's Lynn., 1946

Series published 1940-1947, but omitting the war years 1941-1944. Complete set of published 115 maps in New Popular Series. The discontinuous…

Tags: England, King's Lynn, transportation, twentieth century

J.G. Bartholomew, British Isles - railways & industrial., 1922

This is the second issue of the 1920 edition, which was the first edition to use Bartholomew's maps (the only earlier edition used maps by Andree,…

Tags: Great Britain, transportation, twentieth century

General Drafting Company, Inc. with New Jersey Bell Telephone Company., Visit Faraway Friends Tonight (1953), 1953

Highway map of the United States with telephone rates/coverage. Similar to General Drafting Company's 1950 road map, but with insets/features solely…

Tags: communications, highways, Tourism, twentieth century, United States

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

Frank J. Taylor & Ruth Taylor White, Vermont, in Our U.S.A.: A Gay Geography (1935), 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…

Tags: pictorial, Tourism, twentieth century, Vermont

Photographer: Duncan Cameron, Proposed Canadian Flag (Nov. 1964), 1964

Design proposal for the new Canadian Flag, featuring three maple leaves.

Tags: Canada, iconography, twentieth century

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

Nova Scotia government, Nova Scotia Relief Map at Amherst, Nova Scotia (ca. 1930s), 1930s

A physical map presenting the province to tourists arriving by car. Part of an interwar project of highway-based tourism.

Tags: highways, Nova Scotia, Tourism, twentieth century

Mentholatum Company, New York : The Empire State, 1939

Pictorial representation of the history of New York, with title cartouche. Relief shown by hachures. It is illustrated and noted throughout with small…

Tags: New York, twentieth century, United States

Miguel Covarrubias, United States of America. Covarrubias. (Copyright) A.A.A., 1942

Bird's-eye view pictorial map of the United States with parts of Canada and Mexico. On verso: descriptive text: Miguel Covarrubias. Date estimated.…

Tags: resources, twentieth century, United States

Nova Scotia Board of Insurance Underwriters, Plan Showing Devastated Area of Halifax City, N.S. (1918), 1918

Plan Showing Devastated Area of Halifax City, N.S. (1918). Halifax, Nova Scotia after the 1917 explosion

Tags: Halifax, Nova Scotia, property, twentieth century, urban

Saul Steinberg, New Yorker Map of the World, The David Rumsey Collection, 1976

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…

Tags: New York, twentieth century