Featured Maps
Forbes Magazine,
August 1941 editon
By 1940, Americans had become so used to seeing the world mapped on the Mercator projection that any other method met with resistance, both in classrooms and living rooms. But as aviation displaced sea navigation in the twentieth century, Americans we...
TWA World Route Map
1948
This is a 16 x24 inches folding map (folds to 8 x 4). It is a lithograph (in the USA) and, while dated 1948, no maker is given. This map is a mix of pictorial features and regular mapping. Side one shows the international routes of th...
Hotel Hana Ranch
c1935
This is a two-page tourist souvenir. One page is blank with perforation to put an 8 x 10 photo. The facing page is an 8 x 10 lithograph or color-press pictorial map of Maui done by Ruth Taylor White. The map differs in small details from the la...
Map of the Colony of New Zealand from Official Documents
1853
This was the best map of New Zealand at that time. First issued in the 1830s, this state shows the progress in the exploration and development of New Zealand, but still pre-dates the addition of New Zealand's counties.The three islands of New Zeala...
East Africa. Land of Sunshine
1949
This is a rare and stunning 1949 Dennis Owen Mathews pictorial map of East Africa, including modern day Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda. Centered on the Rift Valley, which is colored in a darker green, the map covers from Lake Tanganyik...
Weekend Vacation Guide in the Western Southland
c1957
A lovely pictographic map of the US Southwest created by James Lewicki for the the Ford Motor Company and included in an edition of 'Ford Times. A Car Owners Magazine'. Lewicki's style, while unique, is closer to that of Ru...
Louisiana: Nature's Cornucopia
1969
Scarce pictorial map of Louisiana, published by the "Art and Model Unit, Public Relations and Educatiopnal Section of the Louisiana Department of Highways". There were at least four maps in this series, all attributed to Carl V. Corley. The ma...
A Hysterical Map of the Grand Coulee
1935
Large dams, like the Grand Coulee, constituted an important part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. These included the Bureau of Reclamation's Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State. A concrete gravity dam, Grand Coulee took eight ye...
The Panama Canal
1925
“Mr Owens was the first civilian artist to fly over the Canal Zone. This bird’s-eye view of the big canal, with its inserted sketches of the locks and interesting Canal Zone scenes, is the result” (legend on the map).“One of O...
Authorized Map of the Second Byrd Expedition.
1924
“Past polar expeditions have been swallowed up by a silence which was never broken until they returned - if they did return. But on the Byrd Expedition there is being attempted the most notable feat in radio history - a two-way broadcast from an...
