Search for these maps in Osgood to find more information and high resolution images.The Seat of War in New England by an American Volunteer with the Marches of the several corps sent by the colonies towards Boston with the attack on Bunkers...
So, you learn something everyday! A post at the Folger Library's blog by John Hunt (University of Louisville) discusses a 1670 map ~ with several vignettes ~ designed to inform a growing public about the rituals and procedures of Papal Conclaves. Tod...
The Kiss of the OceansThe postcard was a souvenir from the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Found at Retronaut....
This extensive collection of twentieth-century U.S. road maps and books was donated in 2002. Douglas A. Yorke, Jr., is an architectural historian especially interested in the history of the gas station in the USA. Some of the best surviving images...
This collection includes books and maps pertaining to Portland, Maine between 1836 and 1981. Most items have been cataloged and are available in WorldCat and URSUS....
A small collection of early maps of the state of Maine, donated by Fleet Bank, of Portland....
Lexington's Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library will on 16 March open a new, ongoing exhibition featuring "40 maps and related objects" from its collections: Journeys and Discoveries: The Stories Maps Tell. The exhibition has four main sect...
Anyone interested in the history of early maps will know Martin Waldseemüller's great 1507 world map, the known copy of which is the oldest surviving map to use the label "America" for any part of the New World. His subsequent work is the subje...
The iconographic use of globes continues ... here's a picture from The Guardian (6 March 2013) of a parade of models, during Paris fashion week, wearing clothes designed by Karl Lagerfeld. Led by the globe, the article was appropriately entitled, "Ch...
The akways useful Retronaut provides some interesting images concerning the London Underground:London Transport Infographics, 1912-1969The Evolution of the London Underground mapFirst Jounrey on the London UndergroundThe Osher Map Library holds many ...
