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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I abuse the word "'genius". Too flippant with the term, & I'm probably not alone. And then a map takes me back to someone like Alexander Von Humboldt, & I remember when it should be applied. Here his great work that influenced Pike & Arrowsmith. His 1811 map Mexique en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I stumbled into Grayson Perry, the English artist and presenter, and am wondering. How did i not come across him before. Just one instance that made we smirk and nod in agreement. "Island of Bad Art" #maps #art #map #artist

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Just a small map from the 1830's, but interesting for those transitional territories where in the northwest is the "Columbia" territory, and Arkansas stretches across some of the Texas border. #map #history #maps

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We've met some cool people over the years, & still smile when I see this map for "Puerto Rico E Islas Limitrofes" issued by the U.S.G.S. in 1952 (In Spanish!!) Doc spent years on the island, did some aerial photography, & always had a love for the people & the place. #map #history #puertorico #maps

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Still think about this map All because of a gent that stopped by our booth, noticed it & related the story of a neighbor/diver & part of the team that explored nuclear waste around the Farallons. "Thousands upon thousands of barrels, just sitting in the sea..." #map #sanfrancisco #history #nuclear

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

All those invisible domains that would become more and more important and blossom with new technologies. (And so much that we've jammed in there since 1952 when this was made) #science #map #dataviz #technology

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is the landmark chart mapping the human genome. And key to this accomplishment was Craig Venter. He changed the dynamic of the field, innovated and continued to make impacts. With the passing of Dr Venter, we remember an amazing life. #maps #history #biology #genome

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

There is a unique connection to the Vajrayana branch of #Buddhism and the land of #Tibet. It's not just in the monasteries, but in the lands itself. Here, a pictorial view of the land and some of those key places. #map #history #maps #mountains

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Primitive for this portion of Central America (c. 1756), but still well formed and with some interesting notations. San Jose CR is here shown as "Carthage". No sign of Managua, but "Massaya", "Leon" and "Grenada" are noted. #map #history #maps #nicaragua #costarica

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A speaker said to focus on "the Just Past", as in moments where humanity was trying to do things good, correct & restorative. Here's my candidate. Gandhi's Salt March on 70th anniversary. A nonviolent action that even motivated U.S. Civil Rights efforts decades later. #maps #history #map #politics

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Ernest Dudley Chase had raging success in the second half of life as he retired, started pursuing his dream of making maps, and was well received. His sense of design set him apart, and here, just a few of his compass roses, taken from some of his famous pictorial maps. #maps #map #design

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A wonderful mix of evolving precision, and some mythical holdovers. So much of the East Indies now becomes identifiable, but it looks like a land bridge connects Australia to Papua New Guinea. Note as well the lake which is the source to all the great rivers of SE Asia #maps #history #map #Asia

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The bias from Henry Luce, the republican publisher, here his map of the early years of F.D.R. Starting in the upper left & apparently one mistake after another. (Notice the WPA workers resting on their shovels? They built the Lincoln tunnel, 30 hospitals, 280k of roads & more) #maps #history #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

A favorite woodblock engraving from Sebastian Münster, c. 1558, showing some of the best of what was understood for Asia. (And including a wonderful Mermaid with a double tail) #map #history #maps #asia

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

From 1802, and quickly new states and territories begin to take shape. Here numbered territories begin to look familiar... #maps #history #map #usa

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It's a game that was produced in many editions up into the 1970's. Here, well prior to the air age (c. 1911) was a game for exploring the world through the steamship and railroad routes around the world #maps #history #map #travel #games

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Was out skateboarding & did the deed. 8 screws & a big plate, back together. My two hilarious brought the humor. "Should I call & tell you're sponsors you are out for the season?" - "Who's gonna tell Tony Hawk?" "Who were your sponsors, geritol, metamucil, & life alert?" #2026 #love #health

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Post War, the exotic allure of Hawaii & Polynesian culture had to be so tempting. Easier air travel, disposable income, simpler times. Prior to the surge of tourism & the unimaginable growth that would change so much, this was a promotional pictorial map for the islands. #maps #Hawaii #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Finding geography homework from the mid-19th century is a treasure. Some young student sketching out their world, recognizing where they were & probably noticing how much of the continent, or the world was unknown. Fell out of the back of a school atlas we got in. #maps #history #map #geography

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

While it had been an international fascination long before America arrived, the U.S. certainly made impacts in the field, beyond the Wright brothers and Robert Goddard. The manufacturers, test pilots, military programs, on to the Space race. Here an overview. #map #flight #maps #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It wasn't Fulton.He didn't invent steamboats. Here Mr Hutchings proves, w/ witness testimony, that he & Mr Fitch had done it decades prior. Often an individual is imbued with the entirety of a development & invention, when actually, it's often a community/lineage of work that did it. #maps #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

An almost unrecognizable West (c. 1844) full of new territories, and a Texas panhandle that reaches up from modern day New Mexico and up into present day Wyoming. Texans love this "stovepipe" panhandle, and how large it was. #map #history #maps

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

In stumbling through estates and sales, we sometimes find interesting postcards. France in the early 20th century. #politics #elections

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Keeping up. What was going to be native lands west of the Mississippi river, at one time, was now rapidly being divided into territories. This map was published c. 1855, but an owner tried to keep up in the 1860's & brushed in new CO. & Dakota terrs. #maps #history #map #Nebraska #Kansas #Colorado

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In 1862, if you were introducing the geographical world to young people, you'd probably mention popular explorers, many wouldn't show the recent addition of submarine cable. That cable is the infrastructure precursor to things like international calling & the internet. #maps #history #map #tech

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Have always loved this composition for part of Africa for all the diversity it covers, from the coast of Senegal, to Timbuktu, to Egypt and Ethiopia. It's a dizzying cross section of lands, languages and cultures. #maps #Africa #map #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Space Invader hasn't just made street art, but started a dialogue and community. Making his video game and pop culture inspired tile works, he put them up around cities, and made maps to curate a tour of his works. He later made an app for phones to find and log his work. #maps #art #map #streetart

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

From Stone Henge (on the left, from 1953) to Burning Man (on the right, 2008), ritual/ceremonial sites are fascinating. Humans have a track record for meeting at specific places at specific times, and sometimes they look kinda similar #maps #science #map #history #archaeology

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Don't sleep on the U.S.G.S. A classic masterpiece for the Grand Canyon which is easy to get absorbed into. The complexities of the region laid out in such elegant visual simplicity. #maps #dataviz #map #datavizualition #grandcanyon

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A favorite advertising map showing the Northern Pacific Line c. 1896, with that wonderful addition of that dog pointing the way west. #maps #railroad #history #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It's all the interesting chaotic moments I could hope to learn about the New York Marathon, from the time under Mayor Koch when the start cannon wouldn't work, to when the Hasidim sprayed hot runners, or the infamous runner that caught a train and got busted. #maps #history #newyork #nyc #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A favorite dramatic depiction that includes the "Sea of the West", a vast inland sea that was hypothesized & grew into a recurrent feature on maps of early North America. Dr McGuirk did the definitive study years back and made a webpage for his work...https://sea-of-the-west.info/introduction

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In a quick glimpse one might think, oh, a phylogenetic tree. Where are the eukaryotes? But this instance of arborization is about computer evolution. Reaching back to Eniac and beyond, and as recent as the 1980's. Could be the roots of AGI? #tech #computer #dataviz #technology #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

From 1862, this was a comparative chart that provides you with the best of what was known for the major rivers and mountains of the world. Great visualization let's you wander and discover, this does the job well #maps #dataviz #map #history #datavisualization #mountains

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

It was the beginning of a connected world that a century or so later would be unstoppable. And it was believed that it would open an era of communication that would end war. The first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. #history #maps #tech #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

From the late 1950's a colorful push for people to consider visiting Ireland. When you think about it there's too much to do, from great music & culture to the prehistoric sites that still hold mysteries. (Could they use an antique map dealer w/ a love for Irish music?) #ireland #maps #Irish #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Growing upward. NYC before skyscrapers. But with the recent addition of a bridge connecting to Brooklyn, change was underway. Architectural historians relates how people first walking across the bridge were amazed to look down & see birds flying beneath them. #architecture #maps #NYC #map #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Latest in aviation, in 1910 But we're tempted to immediately smirk at the latest inventions... one folly after another. Another way of thinking of these attempts. They were necessary for evolution to occur. More attempts, more momentum to the goal #history #aviation #science

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

10 orbits. Apollo 8 would be the first time humanity went around our ancient nearest neighbor, the moon. Taking about 6 days to get there & back, a massive step for humans exploring the solar system. Looking at the arc of human history, a significant moment. #moon #space #map #history #maps

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

A classic pictorial map poking at the failures of prohibition. The Bootlegger's Map of the U.S. #map #history #maps #alcohol

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Love this Dine published map for their homeland in the Southwest where they identify and reclaim the lands identity. #Native #maps #NativeAmerican #map #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

From 1841, a fine example of the changing West & territories. Shows intended permanent Indian lands of the plains, (wouldn't last a decade) Also a funny data viz cheat. If you have a large "Unexplored Region" mask your ignorance, add a distance chart. #maps #Native #map #NativeAmerican #dataviz

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

A favorite space exploration map at a time when science fiction and science fact were wonderfully and optimistically blurry... #mars #space #maps #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The plains of Colorado had their zenith in the early 20th century, prior to the Dust Bowl. It's been declining since. But for one moment in the 1990's a few counties sought to rebrand as "Colorado's Outback", piggybacking off the Crocodile Dundee films(?). It didn't take. #map #Colorado #maps

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Significance can get lost over time. What was the "gunfight at ok corral"? With a little study it comes out that it was the "Wild" lawless West being confronted by the rule of law, with officers. Not just some romanticized cowboy thing, it was a culture clash. #maps #law #map #dataviz #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Love the presentation for this 1851 Tallis of West Africa, but also a clear route to Timbuctoo #maps #africa #map

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Can help but celebrate great work. Riddiford's map for Britain that was prolifically published by National Geographic Society. It's still accessible and abundant and a prime example of 20th century decorative cartography. (And they are CHEAP on ebay!) #maps #unitedkingdom #britain #map #history

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Coming soon, "Silicon Valley & Tech Regions". It's a topic we've found fascinating, not just in its mapping, but in the phenomena itself. A study of the evolution of tech regions over decades. #maps #dataviz #siliconvalley #history #map #tech

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The Old Map Gallery @oldmapgallery.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"The Names of the Prime-Movers Of Science Disappear Gradually In A General Fusion And The More A Science Advances, The More Impersonal And Detached It Becomes" -Claude Bernard A great look at medicine in the U.S. & some of it's prime movers. (No Abraham Flexner ?) #maps #history #medicine #map

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