fuck yeah cartography!

tracingtheirroots:

Title: Colton’s Map of New York And the Adjacent Cities

Map Maker: Joseph Hutchins Colton

Place / Date: New York / 1865

Coloring: Hand Colored

Size: 25 x 15.5 inches

Description:

Detailed map of the City extending north to 87th Street. Shows parks, streets, wards, buildings, rail lines, wharfs, and many other features. Inset shows Harlem.

Also shows much of Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City. A nice large format map. Nice detail in Central Park. JH Colton was one of the pre-eminent American map publishing firms in the mid-19th Century. 

moonjunk:

The Carta Marina, by Olaus Magnus (1539).

“The Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus (1490-1557) is the earliest detailed map of the Nordic countries. It took twelve years to finish. The first copies were printed in 1539 in Venice. Its existence had long been considered apocryphal, until a copy was discovered in Munich in 1886. Another copy, found in Switzerland in 1962, now resides at Carolina Rediviva, Uppsala, Sweden.

The map is divided in 3×3 sheets with the dimension 55x40 cm (height×width), each made from a separate woodcut block. The notes on the map in Latin were translated by Olaus himself into Italian and German. Magnus’ Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (A History of the Northern Peoples, 1555) is a much larger commentary on the map.”

historyofbarbados:

Image is from the map in Richard Ligon’s 1657 work, The True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados.

acidadebranca:

Confederate States of America, a map showing limits of northern control and Federal forts never in Confederate control.

D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993), vol. 2, p. 485.

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acidadebranca:

The Franconian Circle (German: Fränkischer Reichskreis) was an Imperial Circle of the Holy Roman Empire. It was created in 1500.

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patampopcorn:

Paris: Plan of the Artists of the Revolution (1793).

acidadebranca:

Art and Architecture from Constantine to Theodoric 313-526

This map establishes the presence of different mediums and types of art work like sculpture, metal work and glass from 313 to 526 in Europe. The tools and materials used for these different artistic styles come from trade networks and systems, also labeled on the map.

The map also shows the following boundaries:

* Roman Empire in 313

* Kingdom of Theodoric in 526

* The Eastern Empire from 395

* The Christian Barbarian Kingdoms in 526.

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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Isola Spagnvola

Giacomo Gastaldi, 1556

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mlarson:

A History of Map Monsters. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum - Abraham Ortelius, 1570.

shinorenji:

“The Athenian Empire at its height, about 450 BC”.