Featured Maps
Colour of an Old City: A Map of Boston Decorative and Historical
1926
Houghton Mifflin’ first pictorial map and Clark and Olsen’s first joint venture, which they began in September of 1925: “spending six months of ‘exhaustive study and incessant sketching’, with much research taking place in...
Lake George and Lake Champlain
1926
"The Charm and Beauty of Lake George and Lake Champlain Can Be Fully Enjoyed Only from the Steamer's Deck" Two elegant maps, one shows both lakes from Albany to Montreal, and the other Lake George and environs in more detail. The form...
Southern Pacific Lines follow the trails blazed by the pioneers...
1928
An uncommon and visually appealing map poster "done in the old style" with decorative galleons and sea monsters and an elaborate compass rose. Southern Pacific's Shasta Route, Overland Route, Golden State Route and Sunset Route are marked, &q...
Carte des Lignes, French Line
1959
This fine map of the Atlantic Ocean, outlines the routes taken by the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, French Line between Europe and the Americas. The company was founded in 1861, and began sailing from Le Havre to Mexico in 1862. From 1864 they ad...
London Underground Advertising Poster - "In the Heat of the Summer you will find me cool.."
1922
Set against a black background is a central pictorial map, similar in decorative style and comic content to Gill's original "Wonderground" map of 1914, which shows central London from Docklands & Whitechapel in the East to Barnes Br...
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...
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...
PWA Rebuilds the Nation.
1939
“Cartographic monument to the New Deal” (Hornsby) Nearly one hundred projects commissioned by the PWA are illustrated in and spread evenly over the map. The border, which includes more than forty vignettes depicting men at work and the ...
Map of the City of Washington in the District of Columbia shewing the Architecture and History from the Most Ancient Times Down to the Present.
1926
Clark and Olsen collaborated on two other maps of Boston (their first map) and Philadelphia, which all hold much in common with Gill’s “Wonderground Map of London. Their map of Washington was to “be the most prestigious in the series,… it...
Map of Gaya
2nd half 20th-century
This vibrant pictorial map of Gaya in India is oriented with west at the top, the title and place names are in English and in Hindi, the whole is surrounded by a border of vine-leaves. The map, possibly designed for those on a religious pilgrimage, cent...
