These historic maps are riddled with ridiculous inaccuracies and outright lies.
Spice Islands Historic Maps
Historic Maps of Calgary Calgary Area Photos & Videos
Johns Island Conservancy - Historic Maps
Recently we looked at John Speed’s 1610 map of Dublin, a crucial source for historians. This week we look at a map by a historian. It’s Leonard Strangeway’s 1904 The Walls of Dublin. In other words, depicting the medieval city and walls, but made much later. Here it is. It’s worth pointing out that unlike…
The mysteries of the Arctic have captivated explorers and mapmakers for centuries, as Europeans searched for northern sea routes to Asia.The blending of myth and fact in the maps below represent our evolving understanding of the Arctic.
vihistory is a web site designed to aid in historical research of Vancouver Island, at which it succeeds admirably. You should poke around and have fun with their census data and the other worthy, if dreary, pursuits it affords the serious scholar. One feature which is not immediately clear on first glance, perhaps deliberately as…
Find out if your house is in one of Modesto's historic neighborhoods, colonies, or tracts. Click on the links below to see the official area maps. Some areas were in more than one neighborhood and names of neighborhoods and streets changed over the years. It is unlikely your house is older than the official date…
Old maps are an essential tool for discovering more about your family’s history. If you have exhausted more traditional sources, here are three places to find…
Cities evolve, but the old core stays same. Or does it? We’ve trawled the archives for a selection of historic maps. Can you ID the cities?
Maps fulfil many different functions - they show us how to get from A to B efficiently and quickly. They give us some sense of distance between locations and possibly an anticipation of what other landmarks we can see along the way on the route to our new destination. If maps had a purely functional…
Did you know that Central Park's southeast entrance at 59th Street is dedicated to scholars? Or that the area by Prospect Park's new Lakeside complex was once a parking lot for horse-drawn...
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Historic Maps of Florida Lecture happening March 20, 2021 in Carrabelle FL on Florida's Forgotten Coast.
Murray Hudson - Old, historic, rare, ancient, vintage, collectible, one-of-a-kind, out-of-print, unusual, unique, and antiquarian globes, maps, books, and prints
Historic Sidewalk Maps, Denver Colorado.
Three years ago, we highlighted one of the most comprehensive map collections in existence, the David Rumsey Map Collection, then newly moved to Stanford University. Open Culture, openculture.com
Circa 1920's
The ice age is a long period of decrease in our planet's surface and atmosphere temperature, resulting in the growth of continental and polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers. During the last ice age, about one-third of the Earth's surface was covered by ice.
CALLERS FURNITURE STORE on Northumberland Street was destroyed in a huge fire on 30th November 1969, but was re-built on the exact same spot and re-opened...
