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A Map of the State of Vermont

1798

As a map of Vermont, Allen’s has at least two curious features, one glaring, the other all-but hidden. The first is the coverage: Allen’s map takes in not just the state, but almost all northern New England, Northeaster New York and a large sw...

 

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La Jolla "The Jewel"

1968

  A delightful and quite scarce pictorial of the Village and vicinity in 1968. Covers as far south as Bird Rock and North to the Torrey Pines Golf Course which is noted as “Golfer’s Paradise”. Perhaps not surprisingly, many of the est...

 

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A Pictorial Map South Africa

1950

 This charming souvenir map was created by Bernard Sargent for the South African Tourist Corporation. The map shows the major roads and the sites that can be seen along those roads, representing "diverse places and extraordinary manner of stran...

 

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Central Map of Tehran

1961

A comprehensive plan of central Tehran, the Key identifies the locations of all the Government Ministries, embassies and legations, travel agencies, hotels, museums, bookshops, banks, libraries, “Important Trading Houses”, “Commercial...

 

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A Pictorial Map of the British Isles

1935

First edition, printed without colour. “Riding the wave of public interest, Chase began a side business turning out pictorial maps of Europe and North America. By the mid-1940s, he had designed enough maps to fill his own mail-order catalo...

 

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“A graphic representation of the Queen City of the South for the use of Tourists and Visitors” (front cover).

c1909

This “Map of Sydney”, “Showing principal Streets, Parks, Public Buildings, Tramways, &c., [was] published for sale at the Government Tourist Bureau,... and all Stationers”, and available from about 1909. The wharves between Mi...

 

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Wonders of New York

1953

Hansell’s ‘Wonders of New York’ captures the City at a major transition in the its life. “In 1958, more people crossed the Atlantic by airplane than by ship. Within a decade, the great ocean liners shown on the map were gone and Ne...

 

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This is NOT a Bootlegger's Map of the United States

[after 1928]

Only known example of this “bootleg” example of McCandlish’s iconic Bootlegger’s Map of the United States. A close copy in all respects, except for the imprint added below the bowdlerized title, and two new icons for the “...

 

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Vermont: Some History & Other Pastimes

1949

Published by local advertising and commercial design firm, Daly and Hamilton, the map covers all of Vermont with limited geographic detail but rich pictorial imagery. The numerous vignettes illustrate both historical elements, such as Calvin Coolidge's ho...

 

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Your Shell Map of 1960 Winter Olympic Games. Squaw Valley California

1960

Commissioned by Shell Oil to promote their sponsorship of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. The map shows not only the games’s site, but the surrounding area as far east as Virginia City (and including Lake Tahoe) and as far west as Grass Valley. ...

 

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