Mapping Vice in San Francisco (1885) | Mapping the Nation | Susan Schulten
Detail from a rare 1885 map showing vice in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Vice includes gambling (dark orange), Chinese prostitution (green), opium houses (yellow), Joss Houses (red) and White...
View ArticleSuicide & Churches | Multivariate Map Symbols | 1928
In the field of sociology, perhaps one of the most useful devices for the graphic presentation of facts is the cartogram or statistical map. Recently there has been an increasing emphasis on the...
View ArticleLinoleum Ceiling Map for Ill Supine Children | 1942
Crippled children study map on ceiling while they lie on table taking treatments… Innovations in linoleum maps, ca 1942: Located in the Shrine Hospital in San Francisco. Map made from 451 individual...
View ArticleOld Map Newsreels 1935-1965: British Pathé
The World Is Round! (1935) •••••••••• Air Mapping (1935) •••••••••• Moon Mapping (1953) •••••••••• Map to the Coronation (1937) •••••••••• Mainly Maps (1938) •••••••••• Mapping It Out! (1940)...
View ArticleMap Art Exhibitions, 2012-13
Céline Boyer: Empreintes (from Céline Boyer) ••••••• Denis Wood’s 2010 book Rethinking the Power of Maps includes a discussion of exhibits devoted to maps created by artists prior to 2010. A...
View ArticleJapanese Maps | Tokugawa Era | 1600-1870
Fujimi jūsanshū yochi zenzu (Map of the thirteen provinces from which Mt. Fuji is visible) 1843 | Edo : Yamashiroya Sahei Source •••••••••• Kaihō Kai no Kuni ezu (Pocket map of Kai Province) 1842 |...
View ArticleAtlas de Cuba | 1949 | Gerardo Canet & Erwin Raisz
This Atlas is more than an attempt to describe Cuba. Our aim is not only to present the setting in which the drama of Cuban life is played but to show how this life itself changes its own setting,...
View ArticleMapa de los Paisajes de Cuba | Map of the Landscapes of Cuba | 1949 | Gerardo...
The Atlas de Cuba by Gerardo Canet and Erwin Raisz, featured in a recent posting here, is accompanied by a large color map entitled Mapa de los Paisajes de Cuba (Map of the Landscapes of Cuba). The...
View ArticleGilpin’s Map of the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity Round the World +...
Map of the World. Delineating the Contrasted Longitudinal and Latitudinal forms of the continents: the Isothermal Zodiac and Axis of Intensity Round the World; and the Line of Cosmopolitan Railway and...
View ArticleBoris Artzybasheff’s Maps
Back when Denis Wood and I were planning the 3rd edition of Making Maps, I stumbled upon a map of world tropical diseases Boris Artzybasheff created for Life Magazine (“World Map of the Major Tropical...
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Antonio Petrucelli’s Maps (Edes Harrison & Artzybasheff)
Antonio Petrucelli’s name is probably unfamiliar to map people, although it shouldn’t be. Petrucelli was one of the artists whose work was commonly found on the cover (and inside) Fortune magazine...
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