1896 British America
The 1896 textbook The New Eclectic Series: Elementary Geography includes a map of British America - Canada - as defined by the British North America Act, 1867 which created the…
Correction Respectfully Requested
This map is displayed about halfway through the documentary Chernobyl: Secrets, Lies and the Untold Truths. Can you spot anything interesting? The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in 1986, therefore the…
World War I Era Maps
My interest in maps - especially older maps - has grown over the past few years, and on a Monday in late February I spent a few hours in the…
Map Research at NYPL
My growing interest in maps, especially older places I've been to or read about, has be searching out maps to buy or examine. Hanging in our upstairs hallway is an…