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David Rumsey Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection was founded in 1985 and went online in 1999 at davidrumsey.com. The collection includes over 200,000 rare 16th through 21st century maps of the entire World and parts of the Universe. 115,000 maps and related items are available online and 60,000 of those have been georeferenced. Rumsey has been donating the physical map collection and the digital database made from it to the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Libraries since 2008. The map center opened in 2016.T...



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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2710.001 is a part of image group 2710.000 . Col. lithographed map. H.H. Lloyd's Atlas of U.S. in rear. See the earlier version of this atlas published in 1868 (our #4726). Bound in half leather dark greenish brown cloth covered boards with "Topographical atlas of Ohio and the United States" gold stamped on the front cover and blind stamped on the back. Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900,...
Topic: Indians
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10200.003 is a part of image group 10200.000 . This chart has 5 opening flaps. Yaggy's large geographical charts are among the most beautiful and impressive educational charts published in the 19th century. Using chromolithography, Yaggy created stunning colors and contrasts in his images of the world, its regions, and peoples. Yaggy intended his charts to be used in classrooms by students, and issued a teacher’s...
Topics: School, Pictorial map, Thematic, Celestial, Space
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11289.000 is a part of image group 11289.000 . Astronomical map of the Universe prepared by Etienne Laporte,134x96, backed with linen, dissected into 16, sections, folded to 33.5x24. Map surrounded with 25 black and white astronomical vignettes, with explanatory text below the map, entitled "Basic Principles of Astronomy". The author's name appears in a globe under the map. Date estimated. Table "Noms des...
Topics: Celestial, Space
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11285.000 is a part of image group 11285.000 . Color map divided into 14 provinces. Showing cities and towns, the progress of the delivery of water and electricity to municipalities throughout Iraq under King Faisal II (1935-1958), but apparently continued following overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy on July 14, 1858 and establishment of the Republic of Iraq. At the bottom right, a table track the Revenues and...
Topics: Water, Energy
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 15015.002 is a part of image group 15015.000 . Date estimated. Verso of the Le Plan de Cinema à Paris "An unusual map of Paris in Japanese language showcases locations of famous movies, accompanied with caricatures of the actors and short descriptions in Japanese. The movies include À bout de souffle (1960) with Jean Seaberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo and Last Tango in Paris (1972) with Marlon Brando and Maria...
Topic: Pictorial Map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6809.021 is a part of image group 6809.000 . Color map with 4 insets. Includes explanation of ethnic groupings by color: Indo-European, Caucasian, and Uralo-Altaic. Prime meridian is Greenwich. Second and New edition of The Times Atlas published in 1900 (see our 1895 first edition, 1010.000), containing 132 pages of maps and comprising 196 maps and an alphabetical index of 135,000 names. This is the English version of the...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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by Heck, Johann Georg, -1857
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12190.190 is a part of image group 12190.000 . This is a looseleaf atlas accompanied by a set of 4 volumes in English which includes both translations from German, and substitute original texts written specifically for the American audience. The text refers, for the purpose of illustrating things and concepts, individually to this large collection of plates and figures in Johann Georg Heck's Bilder - Atlas zum...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3113.002 is a part of image group 3113.000 . 1st edition 1887, last 1892. "Senatorial Map" stamped next to Title. The Senatorial Districts are outlined in red, with the District number stamped in blue ink. Covers are gray cloth 18.5x10 stamped with "Ohio Railway Map" in gilt. See note field above. Karrow 2-2050.
Topic: Railroad
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1910.202 is a part of image group 1910.000 . Lithographic coloring map. The Medo-Persian empire is considered the most powerful of the ancient empires. At the height of its power, during the reign of Darius I the Great, the empire spanned three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe. Its control extending eastward into India and reached westward to Greece. Its capitals were Persepolis and Susa, with its kings sometimes...
Topic: Historical
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by Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region (U.S.); Newton, Henry, 1845-1877; Bien, Julius; Jenney, Walter Proctor, 1849-1921
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2083.003 is a part of image group 2083.000 . Color lithograph map. Relief shown by contours, hachures and spot heights. Contains 2 maps, 1 view. David Rumsey copy is half redish leather, with brown cloth. Stamped in gold on cover, "Topographical and geological atlas of the Black Hills of Dakota. Powell. R.H. Rollins." E.H. Rollins copy (see DAB). Checklist of printed maps of the Middle West to 1900, 11-0064.;...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4975.002 is a part of image group 4975.000 . Lithograph. Counties hand col. Includes "Explanation." This is perhaps the most extraordinary "county atlas" produced in the 19th century. Although it is a regional atlas in scope, covering both sides of the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, in format it is county atlas with views, maps, and advertising directories of the local towns, cities,...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1147.063 is a part of image group 1147.000 . Hand col. lithographed map. Shows townships, sections, etc. The first Michigan State atlas. Full color. Bound in half leather brown cloth covers with title reading "Atlas of the State of Michigan" stamped in gold on the front and blind stamped on the back. Checklist of Printed Maps of the Middle West to 1900, 5-2112; Karpinski, 478; Phillips, 1960; Phillips Maps of...
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by Nolin, Jean Baptiste, 1648-1708
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 14353.001 is a part of image group 14353.000 . Covers to Cartes generales des Royaumes de l'Europe et des particuliers de France. Bound in leather, with spine in seven gilded compartments separated by raised bands; second compartment with red morocco title piece in gilded letters. Title translates to: General maps. Cartes generales des Royaumes de l'Europe et des particuliers de France, world atlas by Jean Baptiste Nolin;...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13305.002 is a part of image group 13305.000 . Engraved outline color map on sheet 98x68, with inset: and in the lower part covers Punjab, with inset map ". Engraved outline color map on sheet 98x68, dissected and folded into red embossed covers with title "Kashmir Punjab &C." in gold on front cover. Map centered on the Vale of Kashmir, divided by colored lines into Himalayan uplands of Kashmir and Ladak...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5962.003 is a part of image group 5962.000 . Full color map. Countries in outline color. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian is Greenwich. No. 90123456 on the lower right corner of the map. Atlas is bound in red color pictorial card board paper 33x24.5. Covers lightly worn and loose with chip to mid upper and side edges, reads "Rand McNally World Atlas. European War Edition." With generalized table of...
Topic: World War II
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by McGraw-Hill Book Company; Western Publishing Company, Inc.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6350.019 is a part of image group 6350.000 . Full color.
Topics: Agriculture, Climate
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by Hilliard, Sam B.; Irwin, Dan; Southern Illinois University Cartographic Laboratory
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6367.000 is a part of image group 6367.000 . Map Supplement Number 16, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 62, Number 2, June 1972. See Note field above.
Topic: Indians
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by Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594; Hondius, Jodocus, 1563-1612
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10501.483 is a part of image group 10501.000 . This is the second Mercator Hondius edition, after the first in 1606; editions of the Mercator Hondius atlas continued to 1641. Mercator published his edition of Ptolemy in 1578 (see our Bertius edition 11296.000), the first part of his atlas in 1585, and his son Rumold issued the first complete atlas in 1595, the year after Mercator's death. "The earliest biography on...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5963.021 is a part of image group 5963.000 . Full color map by countries. With text indicating Global war strategy map, Airline distances, and Explanation of projection. Prime meridian is Greenwich. 1 atlas, 48 p., 35 maps and illustration, maps mostly colored. Includes Gazetteer-index, maps of: Military actions of World War II, March 11, 1938-June, 1943. , and list of incorporated cities in the United States. Illustrated...
Topic: World War II
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by Mitchell, Samuel Augustus Jr.; Gamble, W.H.; Williams W.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5041.041 is a part of image group 5041.000 . Relief shown in hachures. Prime meridians are Washington D.C. and Greenwich. The special "propeller" border Mitchell Atlas - all the maps have this unique border not found in any other Mitchell Atlases. The title says this atlas was "Designed To Accompany And Illustrate The Centennial Gazetteer Of The United States," also published, we assume, by Ziegler...
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by Stieler, Adolf; Habenicht, H.; A. Kramer; Herrmann, A.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 0961.136 is a part of image group 0961.000 . Outline color. Relief shown in hachures. Alphabetical Index not scanned.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9935.000 is a part of image group 9935.000 . Full color pictorial map of Soviet Union, centerfold from issue of Sunday News, pages 6-7. Date estimated. Territory lost by treaties concluded in 1920 shown in shaded diagonally. Shows railroads, oil fields, power plants, industry, mines, agriculture, domestic animals, etc. Red areas are fortified borders. Includes population, explanation of pictographic symbols, and text:...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6000.008 is a part of image group 6000.000 . A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C.. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats. Rosenberg and Grafton in "Cartographies of Time" say that as a timeline, Adams Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and...
Topics: Historical, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.135 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Color Air Force Base plan. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal airport...
Topic: Airports
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10619.000 is a part of image group 10619.000 . "This fascinating map provides an extremely detailed overview of several of Assam’s finest tea gardens. The map covers a key section of the Darrang District, in the Behali area, located between the Brahmaputra River (in the south) and the Daphla Hills (in the north). Executed to large scale of 1 inch to a mile, the map provides a stellar depiction of land use in the...
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by Generalstab Des Heeres, Abteilung Für Kreigskarten Und Vermessungswesen (General Staff of the Army, Department for District Maps and Surveying
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10842.002 is a part of image group 10842.000 . "Extremely rare and historically important – the definitive classified map used by Wehrmacht commanders at the Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942 – February 2, 1943), the turning point of World War II; a large format, extremely detailed map of Stalingrad city noting all major buildings and strategic targets predicated upon recent aerial reconnaissance, the verso...
Topics: World War II, Military
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.010 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of the musical instruments and music notes, a diagram of the human ear, etc., by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved by...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.027 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Hand colored engraved geological map. Shows color-coded areas of rock formations in Scotland. Includes explanatory text and reference to various rocks. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated...
Topic: Geology
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by United States Geological Survey (USGS); King, Philip B.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7123.000 is a part of image group 7123.000 . Suitable for use in a standard classroom; viewable up to 40 feet. Language(s): English. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Length of rolled wall map is 175 cm. Topics include: geology, tectonics. Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Call Number 500-B-3. See Note field above. UCBGEOG1 UC Berkeley, Geography...
Topic: Geology
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.088 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, the third ring of 12 sheets, the fourth ring of 18 sheets, the fifth ring of 18 sheets, and the legends and diagrams in the four corners. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at...
Topic: Art
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10168.000 is a part of image group 10168.000 . The last map in Booth's extensive study of poverty in London. Published in the final series of three, "Life and Labour of the People in London." Map shows the spatial relationships of schools, churches, and places serving alcohol. As with his earlier maps, Booth used Stanford's London map as a base. See note field above.
Topic: Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.178 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Circular Vicinity map. In lower panel: "Restricted security information". Insets: Location map and chart of USAF runway wind computer and location map. Includes table of Wind coverage tabulations. Map shows major cities, roads and railroads. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps,...
Topic: Airports
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by Justus Perthes; Painke; Haack
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7107.000 is a part of image group 7107.000 . Suitable for use in a large lecture hall; viewable to and beyond 40 feet. Language(s): German. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Projection is not specified. Length of rolled wall map is 210 cm. Part of a series entitled, 482. Topics include: topography, hydrography, political boundaries, cities, transportation routes. Department of...
Topics: Physical, Political
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.013 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of magnets, a compass, earth’s magnetic field, scientific demonstration instruments, etc., by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8238.000 is a part of image group 8238.000 . Pictorial map on Mercator projection centered on the Greenwich Prime Meridian, placing Great Britain just above the map's central focal point. Published as a color supplement to The "Graphic." The British Isles, and British colonies spreading out to the east and the west, were highlighted with red, while other geographical areas were left blank with only a minimum...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11663.002 is a part of image group 11663.000 . Pictorial folded map London’s Kensington Gardens & Hyde Park, including its famous Serpentine Lake. Part of the Survey of London series. Drawn by John Pearson Sayer, for the Strand Magazine. Date estimated 1948. The map continues on back cover as far as Park Lane & Marble Arch. Printed on both sides of sheet. Includes vignette illustrations and detailed annotations...
Topic: Pictorial map
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by Nirenstein, Nathan
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12507.011 is a part of image group 12507.000 . Date estimated. Has a tab for each city. Text pages heavily illustrated with photographic images of cities (many are aerial photographs) and city landmarks.
Topic: Property Ownership
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.040 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Hand colored engraved ethnographical map of the world. Shows the population density around the world along with the ethnographic racial groups recognized at the time. Insets showing the global distribution of the world's religions, and illustrating the skull forms of different races. Includes statistical tables and notes. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular...
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race, Religions
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4170.002 is a part of image group 4170.000 . Very early for Rand McNally auto map. Says "Auto Trails of California. Presented for your convenience and pleasure by The First National Bank and The Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank of Santa Ana, Calif." on the light blue card board covers 14x9. Maps are printed in dark blue ink without color. See note field above.
Topics: Automobile, Roads
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.007 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of the equipment for carrying out meteorological observations, by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved by John Emslie....
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3559.014 is a part of image group 3559.000 . Engraved map with inset. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Shows rivers, railroads, cities with populations, etc. Prime meridians: Washington and Greenwich. See note field above. Cf P6111 (5th ed., 1850)
Topic: School
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10841.000 is a part of image group 10841.000 . Dated 1321 [1905]. "An exceedingly rare and uncommonly beautiful map of Eastern Anatolia and Armenia made by the famous landscape artist Hoca Ali Rıza as an operational map to aid the Ottoman Army in patrolling a region that was rife with arms and commodities smuggling, spies and agents provocateurs, and violent Armenian insurrections; published in Istanbul by the press...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11156.002 is a part of image group 11156.000 . Color map of East Germany, 115x79.5, folded into 30x21. Showing the economic production and industry during 1960s. List on the lower right corner identifies types of minerals and types of industries by pictorial symbols. Map shows industrial towns, railways, rivers, canals, ferries and international boundaries. Includes list of major cities. See note field above.
Topics: Mining, Industry
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by Millsap, Darrel
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 8964.000 is a part of image group 8964.000 . Fanciful depiction of the San Diego area. Color.
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.113 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Color Air Force Base plan. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal airport...
Topic: Airports
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by Goodacre, William J.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9894.000 is a part of image group 9894.000 . Color pictorial map of the city of Santa Barbara, bordered by vignette illustrations of various historic and cultural events, missions and houses. Many streets are named with little pictographs representing buildings and recreational facilities. shows places such as the Santa Barbara bowl, the S.P. Depot, many hotels and the riding club, etc. Signed by artist in pencil at lower...
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5842.004 is a part of image group 5842.000 . From the Preface: "This book is called "WORLD GEO-GRAPHIC ATLAS" because it includes, in addition to GEO-graphic maps, many GRAPHIC illustrations of subjects closely related to modern geography." From the Foreward: "We, in Container Corporation, believe that a company may occasionally step outside of its recognized field of operations in an effort to...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 2104.007 is a part of image group 2104.000 . Engraved map in full hand col. Inset map: North part of Scotland. Shows great, mail coach and cross roads, canals, ship routes with distances, etc. "7" on verso. See note field above. Cf Phillips 6010, 6013, 6047.
Topics: Canals, Roads
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 4520C is a part of image group 4520.000 . Page on the left is an explanation of abbreviations used in the atlas as well as an example. The contents are on the right. The fourth edition of Rand McNally's first atlas, dated 1878-9 on the title page. The first edition was issued in 1876-77, and only included the Pacific slope states. Phillips shows editions of 1876-77, 1877, 1878, 1878-79, and 1880. Maps with printed full and...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.065 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Folded colored plan of Air Force Base. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal...
Topic: Airports
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 5963.032 is a part of image group 5963.000 . Full color map by countries. Showing capitals of countries. Prime meridian is Greenwich. 1 atlas, 48 p., 35 maps and illustration, maps mostly colored. Includes Gazetteer-index, maps of: Military actions of World War II, March 11, 1938-June, 1943. , and list of incorporated cities in the United States. Illustrated color covers are heavy paper printed with "The New...
Topic: World War II
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by U.S. Office of War Information
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1104.025 is a part of image group 1104.000 . Includes text and three maps. titled: 40. the world political structure, according to Mackinder, 41. Lebensraum, according to Haushofer. 42. Color map showing Lebensraum to the East. Point of projection: 30 (degrees) N., 50 (degrees) E. Relief shown by shadings. The editors note in the preface that, "So far as we know this is the first book of its kind, integrating as it...
Topic: World War II
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 15039.001 is a part of image group 15039.000 . "A fine hand-coloured manuscript map painted on paper with numerous annotations in Chinese. Map measuring 665x30cm, mounted on paper as a handscroll, empty pink mica-flecked frontispiece (detached), housed in a 20th century wooden box. Occasional light creasing, a few very minor marginal tears, but otherwise in very good condition. Some English annotation written in...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1159.151 is a part of image group 1159.000 . Col. lithographed map. Relief shown by hachures. Covers also Benelux countries. This is very much in the Andreas Minnesota Atlas style - Warner and Beers in fact collaborated with Andreas and did the coloring on the Minnesota Atlas. This 1876 edition bears little resemblance to the earlier 1871 edition by Warner, Higgins & Beers (see our #3749) which used entirely different...
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by (سودى)نك يكى خريطه كلياتندن [SÛDÎ’NIN YENI HARITA KÜLLIYATINDAN / SUDI’S NEW CARTOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT].
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10876.000 is a part of image group 10876.000 . "‘Ana Vatan’ (Homeland) is one of the iconic images of Turkey’s Early Republican Era, being a colourful map of the country variously decorated with a portrait of its revolutionary founding president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; the figure of an infantry man, hailing the might and bravery of the Turkish Army which secured the nation’s independence; and the figure of a...
Topics: Political, Historical
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 0047.002 is a part of image group 0047.000 . Additional railroads when compared to the 1873 edition. Full color by county. Folded into dark brown cloth covers 16x11 with title "Bancroft's Map Of California, Nevada, Utah & Arizona." in gold. Relief shown by hachures. See note field above. cfWheat 1219.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 11541.002 is a part of image group 11541.000 . Color map of Tehran 33x41 on sheet 51x73 folded to pictorial covers 19x12.5. Showing city blocks, major roads, streets, railways, industry, historical, public and educational buildings, parks and agriculture. Includes distance chart, Compass rose, index to places of interest outside Tehran and alpha numeric key to map. Includes views of Bank Melli-Iran, Sepahsalar Mosque and...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 1780.175 is a part of image group 1780.000 . Col. lithograph. Title from table of contents. See note field above. LC Civil War maps (2nd ed.), 99; Civil War maps in the National Archives, 8; Phillips, 1353; LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 266.
Topics: U.S. Civil War, Military
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by Black, Adam; Black, Charles; Hall, Sydney
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3937.049 is a part of image group 3937.000 . The second edition, the first appearing in 1840. Only the 1840 and 41 editions were engraved exclusively by Hall. Starting with the 1844 edition, Hall was joined by Hughes and other engravers. Outline color. Relief shown by hachures. Gilt edges on text and map pages. Every map faced with a sheet of bound-in tissue paper. P779.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 9993.002 is a part of image group 9993.000 . Pictorial map, 46 x 80 fold. to 24 x 10. Relief shown pictorially. Shows historical buildings, and events, wildlife, places of interest, roads, railroads, rivers, etc. Text in French and English. With portraits of Montcalm, Frondrac, Wolf, Champlain, Colbert, Louis XIII and Jacques Cartier. Includes legend, distance char, list of places of interest, Ferry service, notes, and...
Topics: Pictorial map, Tourism
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13033.004 is a part of image group 13033.000 . Colored lithograph view of scientific equipment, by John Emslie. Reynolds created this work in response to the popular demand for information on science and engineering as a result of the Industrial Revolution. This collection consists of 33 loose pictorial plates, with a related text, dated 1849-1852. Drawn and engraved by John Emslie. Some plates are numbered: "Popular...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6000.002 is a part of image group 6000.000 . A huge and impressive twenty three foot long chart showing 5,885 years of history, from 4004 B.C.. to 1881 A.D. First issued in 1871, Adams put out several editions in many formats. Rosenberg and Grafton in "Cartographies of Time" say that as a timeline, Adams Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and...
Topics: Historical, Data Visualization
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 6915.003 is a part of image group 6915.000 . "Arrowsmith's large and detailed map of the Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea. By the beginning of the nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire had fallen some way from the lofty heights of 1683, when it had threatened the gates of Vienna. The Russo-Turkish wars of the eighteenth century most notably that of 1768-1774 weakened the Empire considerably, and by the time of the...
Topic: Ottoman Mapping
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by Monte (Monti), Urbano, 1544-1613
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.081 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole, the second ring of 8 sheets, and the third ring of 12 sheets. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at 9 by 9 feet. This map is one of 3 examples extant (2 manuscript, 1 printed) that form the continuum of...
Topic: Art
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by McDonough, Leo & Co.; Chamberlain, E.J.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3389.043 is a part of image group 3389.000 . Only county atlas made by McDonough. One of the first Kentucky county atlases produced. Beers, starting in 1877, and Lake, starting in the early 1880's, covered the rest of the state, but McDonough got Daviess first. Full color. U.S. Atlases L4821.
Topic: Property Ownership
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 0370.025 is a part of image group 0370.000 . Smaller edition of the large physical atlas. Printed in full color. Relief shown by hachures.
Topics: Ethnography, Nationality, Race
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by Renner, George T.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 7078.000 is a part of image group 7078.000 . Suitable for use in a standard classroom; viewable up to 40 feet. Language(s): English. Map is paper on muslin. Mounted on wood rods. Prime Meridian is Greenwich. Projection is Azimuthal equidistant. Length of rolled wall map is 120 cm. Topics include: outline map, airline and air commerce routes 1942. Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley, Call Number...
Topic: Airlines
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by Heck, Johann Georg, -1857
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 12190.179 is a part of image group 12190.000 . This is a looseleaf atlas accompanied by a set of 4 volumes in English which includes both translations from German, and substitute original texts written specifically for the American audience. The text refers, for the purpose of illustrating things and concepts, individually to this large collection of plates and figures in Johann Georg Heck's Bilder - Atlas zum...
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13219.177 is a part of image group 13219.000 . Color Air Force Base plan. In lower panel: Restricted security information". Includes key to indication and colored key to Air Force base facilities. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. On verso: Vicinity map. Collection of the United States Air Force restricted Master Plans, dated 1953. Consists of Two index sheets and 268 maps, including municipal airport...
Topic: Airports
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10481.000 is a part of image group 10481.000 . "This is a key milestone in the history of Ottoman cartography, being the very first distance-time-route map of the entire Ottoman Empire. Published in Istanbul in 1893, it was produced by the General Staff (Fourth Division) of the Ottoman Army, predicated upon exhaustive highway surveys and itinerary records compiled over recent years. The map captures the scene during...
Topics: Data Visualization, Ottoman Mapping
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by Fenner, Rest.
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3247.027 is a part of image group 3247.000 . See the companion Classical Series Atlas volume. Has the same Modern maps as the Thomas's Library Atlas of 1835. The date is estimated by Tooley. Outline color. Relief shown in hachures. Tooley Dictionary; cf Tooley Aust./Ant. p 156.
Topic: Ottoman Mapping
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 13349.001 is a part of image group 13349.000 . Pictorial map of French settlements in Southeast Asia, with title cartouche. Published in Paris by the pharmaceutical laboratories Neutroses-Vichy in 1939 at Petit Jean. Covers Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Main characteristics, agricultural resources and characteristic buildings of each region are symbolized by small vignette. Shows modes of transportation,rivers and mountains....
Topic: Pictorial map
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 3432.017 is a part of image group 3432.000 . Hand colored engraved transparent diagram. Shows comparative sizes of the planets, including Neptune, depicting Saturn with its rings and the known satellites. See note field above. None found.
Topics: Astronomy, Celestial
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by Monte (Monti), Urbano, 1544-1613
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10130.080 is a part of image group 10130.000 . Composite map of the first ring of four sheets around the north pole and the second ring of 8 sheets. Rotated 180 degrees. “An important and extraordinary manuscript world map drawn up on a north polar projection to form the largest manuscript map of the world at 9 by 9 feet. This map is one of 3 examples extant (2 manuscript, 1 printed) that form the continuum of Urbano...
Topic: Art
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Zoomable full resolution image available at davidrumsey.com . This image 10955.001 is a part of image group 10955.000 . The Paris Colonial Exhibition (or "Exposition coloniale internationale", International Colonial Exhibition) was a six-month colonial exhibition held in Paris, France, in 1931 that attempted to display the diverse cultures and immense resources of France's colonial possessions. The exposition opened on 6 May 1931 in the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of...
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